1. When the Lord will have compassion on Jacob and again choose Israel, and settle them in their own land, then strangers will join them and attach themselves to the house of Jacob.
2. The peoples will take them along and bring them to their place, and the house of Israel will possess them as an inheritance in the land of the Lord as male servants and female servants; and they will take their captors captive and will rule over their oppressors.
3. And it will be in the day when the Lord gives you rest from your pain and turmoil and harsh service in which you have been enslaved,
4. that you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon, and say, "How the oppressor has ceased, And how fury has ceased!
5. "The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked, The scepter of rulers
6. Which used to strike the peoples in fury with unceasing strokes, Which subdued the nations in anger with unrestrained persecution.
7. "The whole earth is at rest and is quiet; They break forth into shouts of joy.
8. "Even the cypress trees rejoice over you, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, 'Since you were laid low, no tree cutter comes up against us.'
9. "Sheol from beneath is excited over you to meet you when you come; It arouses for you the spirits of the dead, all the leaders of the earth; It raises all the kings of the nations from their thrones.
10. "They will all respond and say to you, 'Even you have been made weak as we, You have become like us.
11. 'Your pomp and the music of your harps Have been brought down to Sheol; Maggots are spread out as your bed beneath you And worms are your covering.'
12. "How you have fallen from heaven, O star of the morning, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the earth, You who have weakened the nations!