1. For Adonai will have compassion on Jacob and will again choose Israel and settle them in their own land. The outsider will join himself with them and will cling to the house of Jacob.
2. The peoples will take them and escort them to their place. The house of Israel will possess them in the land of Adonai as servants and handmaids. They will take their captors captive, and rule over their oppressors.
3. Now in the day when Adonai will give you rest from your sorrow and your turmoil, and from the hard service you were forced to do,
4. you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon and say: “How the taskmaster has ceased! The raging oppressor, exacter of gold, has ceased!
5. Adonai has broken the rod of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers,
6. which struck the people in wrath with continual strokes, which ruled the nations in fury, with relentless persecution.
7. The whole earth is at rest, and quiet. They break forth with a ringing cry!
8. Even the cypress trees rejoice over you, along with the cedars of Lebanon: “Since you were laid low, no woodcutter comes up against us.”