2. The peoples will take them, and bring them to their place. The house of Israel will possess them in the Lord’s land for servants and for handmaids. They will take as captives those whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.
3. It will happen in the day that the Lord will give you rest from your sorrow, from your trouble, and from the hard service in which you were made to serve,
4. that you will take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, “How the oppressor has ceased! The golden city has ceased!”
5. The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked, the sceptre of the rulers,
6. who struck the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, who ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that no one restrained.
7. The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet. They break out in song.
8. Yes, the cypress trees rejoice with you, with the cedars of Lebanon, saying, “Since you are humbled, no lumberjack has come up against us.”
9. Sheol from beneath has moved for you to meet you at your coming. It stirs up the departed spirits for you, even all the rulers of the earth. It has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
10. They all will answer and ask you, “Have you also become as weak as we are? Have you become like us?”
11. Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, with the sound of your stringed instruments. Maggots are spread out under you, and worms cover you.