3. When the Lord has given you rest from pain and trouble and from the hard labor that you perform,
4. you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon:How the oppressor has ceased!How the flood has receded!
5. The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked,the rod of tyrants
6. that struck peoples in rage with ceaseless blows,that ruled nations with anger,with relentless aggression.
7. All the earth rests quietly,then it breaks into song.