Isaiah 14:1-12

1The Lord will have compassion for Jacob and again choose Israel. He will resettle them in their own country. Foreigners will join them and unite with the descendants of Jacob.

2People will take them and bring them to their own place. The nation of Israel will possess nations as male and female slaves in the Lord’s land. They will take their captors captive and rule their oppressors.

3When that day comes, the Lord will give you relief from your pain and suffering, from the hard slavery you were forced to do.

4Then you will mock the king of Babylon with this saying, “How the tyrant has come to an end! How his attacks have come to an end!”

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

6They struck the people with fury, with blows that didn’t stop. They ruled nations in anger, persecuting them without restraint.

7The whole earth rests and is peaceful. It breaks out into shouts of joy.

8Even the cypresses rejoice over you. The cedars of Lebanon say, “Since you have fallen, no lumberjack has come to attack us.”

9Sheol below wakes up to meet you when you come. It wakes up the ghosts of the dead, all who were leaders on earth. It raises all who were kings of the nations from their thrones.

10All of them will greet you, “You also have become weak like us! You have become like one of us!”

11Your pride has been brought down to Sheol along with the music of your harps. Maggots are spread out ⌞like a bed⌟ under you, and worms cover you.

12How you have fallen from heaven, you morning star, son of the dawn! How you have been cut down to the ground, you conqueror of nations!