Thomson(i)
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?