CAB(i)
4 And you shall take up this lamentation against the king of Babylon, How has the extortioner ceased, and the taskmaster ceased!
5 The Lord has broken the yoke of sinners, and the yoke of princes.
6 Having smitten a nation in wrath with an incurable plague, smiting a nation with a wrathful plague, which spared them not, he rested in quiet.
7 All the earth cries aloud with joy;
8 the trees of Lebanon also rejoice against you, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, From the time that you have been laid low, no one has come up to cut us down.
9 Hell from beneath is provoked to meet you; all the great ones that have ruled over the earth have risen up together against you, they that have raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
10 All shall answer and say to you, You also have been taken, even as we; and you are numbered amongst us.
11 Your glory has come down to Hades, and your great mirth; under you they shall spread corruption, and the worm shall be your covering.
12 How has Lucifer, that rose of the morning, fallen from heaven! He that sent orders to all the nations is crushed to the earth.
13 But you have said in your heart, I will go up to heaven, I will set my throne above the stars of heaven; I will sit on a lofty mount, on the lofty mountains toward the north;
14 I will go up above the clouds; I will be like the Most High.
15 But now you shall go down to hell, even to the foundations of the earth!
16 They that see you shall marvel at you, and say, This is the man that troubled the earth, that made kings to shake;
17 that made the whole world desolate, and destroyed its cities; he loosed not those who were in captivity.
18 All the kings of the nations lie in honor, every man in his house.
19 But you shall be cast forth on the mountains, as a loathsome carcass, with many dead who have been pierced with swords, going down to the grave.
20 As a garment defiled with blood shall not be pure, so neither shall you be pure; because you have destroyed My land, and have slain My people; you shall not endure forever; you are an evil seed.
21 Prepare your children to be slain for the sins of their father; that they arise not, and inherit the earth, nor fill the earth with wars.
22 And I will rise up against them, says the Lord of hosts, and I will destroy their name, and remnant, and seed; thus says the Lord.
23 And I will make the region of Babylon a desert, so that hedgehogs shall dwell there, and it shall come to nothing; and I will make it a pit of clay for destruction.
24 Thus says the Lord of hosts, As I have said, so it shall be; and as I have purposed, so the matter shall remain;