Berean Standard Bible

Isaiah 14:1-12

1For the LORD will have compassion on Jacob; once again He will choose Israel and settle them in their own land. The foreigner will join them and unite with the house of Jacob. 2The nations will escort Israel and bring it to its homeland.

Then the house of Israel will possess the nations as menservants and maidservants in the LORD’s land. They will make captives of their captors and rule over their oppressors.

3On the day that the LORD gives you rest from your pain and torment, and from the hard labor into which you were forced, 4you will sing this song of contempt against the king of Babylon:

How the oppressor has ceased,and how his fury1 has ended!5The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked,the scepter of the rulers.6It struck the peoples in angerwith unceasing blows;it subdued the nations in ragewith relentless persecution.7All the earth is at peace and at rest;they break out in song.8Even the cypresses2 and cedars of Lebanonexult over you:“Since you have been laid low,no woodcutter comes against us.”

9Sheol beneath is eagerto meet you upon your arrival.It stirs the spirits of the dead to greet you—all the rulers of the earth.It makes all the kings of the nationsrise from their thrones.10They will all respond to you, saying,“You too have become weak, as we are;you have become like us!”11Your pomp has been brought down to Sheol,along with the music of your harps.Maggots are your bedand worms your blanket.

12How you have fallen from heaven,O day star,3 son of the dawn!You have been cut down to the ground,O destroyer of nations.

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Notes

1. Isaiah 14:4 DSS, LXX, and Syriac; MT the golden city ↩
2. Isaiah 14:8 Or pines or junipers or firs ↩
3. Isaiah 14:12 Or morning star or shining one or Lucifer ↩

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