Isaiah 14 but the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will still make choice of Israel; and they shall rest in their own land; and the stranger shall be joined to them, and shall be added to the house of Jacob.

Thomson⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ but the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will still make choice of Israel; and they shall rest in their own land; and the stranger shall be joined to them, and shall be added to the house of Jacob. ² The nations shall take them and bring them to their place; and the house of Jacob shall possess them; when they shall multiplied in their land, for men servants and for maid servants: and they who captivated them shall be captives; and they who domineered over them shall be brought into subjection. ³ And it shall come to pass in that day when the Lord shall give thee rest from thy sorrow and thy grief; from that hard servitude of thine, with which thou hast served them, ⁴ that thou wilt take up this funeral song over the king of Babylon: [[c]the chorus] [c] How the extortioner is laid to rest! and a stop put to his demands! ⁵ The Lord hath broken the yoke of the sinners; the yoke of the rulers. ⁶ He smote a nation in wrath with an incurable wound; he smote a nation with a vengeful wound which did not spare. The confidant is gone to rest; ⁷ the whole earth shouteth for joy; ⁸ and the trees of Lebanon rejoice over thee; and the cedars of Lebanon say, "Since thou hast gone to rest, no feller is come up against us." ⁹ Hades from beneath was in uproar to meet thee; for thee were roused all the giants who had ruled the earth. Having roused from their thrones all the kings of nations, ¹⁰ they will all accost thee saying, "And art thou caught as we have been? And among us art thou enrolled? ¹¹ Is thy pomp come down to Hades; all thy great festivity?" Beneath thee they will strew corruption for a bed; and Worms shall be thy covering. ¹² How is Lucifer fallen from heaven! He who was harbinger of the morning; he who sent messages to all the nations is trampled down into the earth. ¹³ Thou indeed didst say in thy heart, I will ascend up into heaven; above the stars of heaven I will place my throne; I will seat myself on a lofty mountain; on the lofty mountains which face the north. ¹⁴ I will ascend above the clouds; I will be like the Most High. ¹⁵ But thou must now go down to the mansion of the dead; even down to the foundations of the earth. ¹⁶ They who see thee will express their amazement at thee and say, Is this the man who troubled the earth? who shook kings? ¹⁷ who made the World a desert? who, when he destroyed cities, never dismissed his captives? ¹⁸ All the kings of the nations have been composed to rest with honour, every man in his own house. ¹⁹ But thou shalt be cast out on the mountains, like an abominable corse, with dying crouds, pierced with the sword, descending down to the mansion of the dead. ²⁰ As a mantle stained with blood cannot be clean; for the same cause neither canst thou be clean. Because thou hast destroyed this land of mine, and hast slain this my people; thou shalt not be of long continuance. Wicked seed, ²¹ prepare thy sons for slaughter, for the sins of their fathers; that they may not rise and possess the land, and fill the World with wars. ²² I will indeed rise up against them, saith the Lord of hosts, and destroy their name and remnant and seed. Thus saith the Lord, ²³ "I will lay Babylonia waste: that porcupines may inhabit it; and it shall be a desolation. And I will plunge it in the miry gulf of destruction. ²⁴ Thus saith the Lord of hosts, as I have spoken so it shall be; and as I have determined, so it shall stand. ²⁵ I will destroy the Assyrians on this land of mine; and on these mountains of mine they shall be trodden down; and their yoke shall be removed from my people; and their reproach shall be taken from their shoulders. ²⁶ [p] This is the counsel which the Lord hath taken against the whole empire, and this is the hand which is lifted high against all the nations. ²⁷ For who can disannul what the holy God hath decreed? and his hand which is lifted high, who can turn aside? ²⁸ In the year in which king Achaz died, this Oracle was delivered. ²⁹ Rejoice not, foreign tribes, with one consent, because the yoke of him who smote you is broken; for from the seed of a serpent will come forth young asps, and their offspring will be flying serpents. ³⁰ For the needy will be fed by him; and in peace the needy will repose. But with famine he will destroy thy seed; even the remnant of thy seed he will destroy. ³¹ Raise the mournful cry ye gates of cities; foreign tribes! let harassed cities scream with one consent: for a smoke is coming from the north, which cannot be endured; ³² what then will the kings of nations say in reply? "That the Lord hath founded Sion, and by him the poor of his people shall be saved."