1. But Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob, and he will again choose Israel and set them on their land, and the immigrant will join himself to them, and they will attach themselves to the house of Jacob.
2. And the nations will take them and bring them to their place, and the house of Israel will take possession of them in the land of Yahweh as slaves and female slaves. And this will happen: they will take their captors captive and rule over their oppressors.
3. And it shall happen on the day Yahweh gives you rest from your pain and turmoil and hard labor which you had to perform,
4. that you will take this taunt against the king of Babylon, and you will say: “How the oppressor has ceased! his insolence has ceased.
5. Yahweh has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of rulers,
6. that struck the peoples in wrath, a blow without ceasing, that ruled the nations in anger with unrestrained persecution.
7. All of the earth rests and is quiet; they break forth into singing.
8. Even the cypresses rejoice over you, the cedars of Lebanon: ‘Since you were laid down, no wood cutter comes up against us.’
9. Sheol below is getting excited over you, to meet you when you come; it arouses the dead spirits for you, all of the leaders of the earth. It raises all of the kings of the nations from their thrones.
10. All of them will respond and say to you, ‘You yourself also were made weak like us! You have become the same as us!’
11. Your pride is brought down to Sheol, and the sound of your harps; maggots are spread out beneath you like a bed, and your covering is worms.
12. How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of dawn! You are cut down to the ground, conqueror of nations!
13. And you yourself said in your heart, ‘I will ascend to heaven; I will raise up my throne above the stars of God; and I will sit on the mountain of assembly on the summit of Zaphon;
14. I will ascend to the high places of the clouds, I will make myself like the Most High.’
15. But you are brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the pit.