Isaiah 14:1-12

1For the Lord will have compassion on Jacob and will choose Israel again. He will settle them on their own land. The resident alien will join them and be united with the house of Jacob.

2The nations will escort Israel and bring it to its homeland. Then the house of Israel will possess them as male and female slaves in the Lord’s land. They will make captives of their captors and will rule over their oppressors.

3When the Lord gives you rest from your pain, torment, and the hard labor you were forced to do,

4you will sing this song of contempt about the king of Babylon and say: How the oppressor has quieted down, and how the raging has become quiet!

5The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers.

6It struck the peoples in anger with unceasing blows. It subdued the nations in rage with relentless persecution.

7The whole earth is calm and at rest; people shout with a ringing cry.

8Even the cypresses and the cedars of Lebanon rejoice over you: “Since you have been laid low, no lumberjack has come against us.”

9Sheol below is eager to greet your coming, stirring up the spirits of the departed for you — all the rulers of the earth — making all the kings of the nations rise from their thrones.

10They all respond to you, saying, “You too have become as weak as we are; you have become like us!

11Your splendor has been brought down to Sheol, along with the music of your harps. Maggots are spread out under you, and worms cover you.”

12Shining morning star, how you have fallen from the heavens! You destroyer of nations, you have been cut down to the ground.