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| | Isa 14:1 | The LORD will have compassion on Jacob; once again he will choose Israel and will settle them in their own land. Aliens will join them and unite with the house of Jacob.
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| | Isa 14:2 | Nations will take them and bring them to their own place. And the house of Israel will possess the nations as menservants and maidservants in the LORD's land. They will make captives of their captors and rule over their oppressors.
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| | Isa 14:3 | On the day the LORD gives you relief from suffering and turmoil and cruel bondage,
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| | Isa 14:4 | you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has come to an end! How his fury has ended!
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| | Isa 14:5 | The LORD has broken the rod of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers,
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| | Isa 14:6 | which in anger struck down peoples with unceasing blows, and in fury subdued nations with relentless aggression.
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| | Isa 14:7 | All the lands are at rest and at peace; they break into singing.
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| | Isa 14:8 | Even the pine trees and the cedars of Lebanon exult over you and say, "Now that you have been laid low, no woodsman comes to cut us down."
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| | Isa 14:9 | The grave below is all astir to meet you at your coming; it rouses the spirits of the departed to greet you-- all those who were leaders in the world; it makes them rise from their thrones-- all those who were kings over the nations.
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| | Isa 14:10 | They will all respond, they will say to you, "You also have become weak, as we are; you have become like us."
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| | Isa 14:11 | All your pomp has been brought down to the grave, along with the noise of your harps; maggots are spread out beneath you and worms cover you.
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| | Isa 14:12 | How you have fallen from heaven, O morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations!
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| | Isa 14:13 | You said in your heart, "I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throne above the stars of God; I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly, on the utmost heights of the sacred mountain.
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| | Isa 14:14 | I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High."
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| | Isa 14:15 | But you are brought down to the grave, to the depths of the pit.
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| | Isa 14:16 | Those who see you stare at you, they ponder your fate: "Is this the man who shook the earth and made kingdoms tremble,
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| | Isa 14:17 | the man who made the world a desert, who overthrew its cities and would not let his captives go home?"
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| | Isa 14:18 | All the kings of the nations lie in state, each in his own tomb.
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| | Isa 14:19 | But you are cast out of your tomb like a rejected branch; you are covered with the slain, with those pierced by the sword, those who descend to the stones of the pit. Like a corpse trampled underfoot,
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| | Isa 14:20 | you will not join them in burial, for you have destroyed your land and killed your people. The offspring of the wicked will never be mentioned again.
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| | Isa 14:21 | Prepare a place to slaughter his sons for the sins of their forefathers; they are not to rise to inherit the land and cover the earth with their cities.
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| | Isa 14:22 | "I will rise up against them," declares the LORD Almighty. "I will cut off from Babylon her name and survivors, her offspring and descendants," declares the LORD.
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| | Isa 14:23 | "I will turn her into a place for owls and into swampland; I will sweep her with the broom of destruction," declares the LORD Almighty.
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| | Isa 14:24 | The LORD Almighty has sworn, "Surely, as I have planned, so it will be, and as I have purposed, so it will stand.
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| | Isa 14:25 | I will crush the Assyrian in my land; on my mountains I will trample him down. His yoke will be taken from my people, and his burden removed from their shoulders."
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| | Isa 14:26 | This is the plan determined for the whole world; this is the hand stretched out over all nations.
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| | Isa 14:27 | For the LORD Almighty has purposed, and who can thwart him? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?
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| | Isa 14:28 | This oracle came in the year King Ahaz died:
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| | Isa 14:29 | Do not rejoice, all you Philistines, that the rod that struck you is broken; from the root of that snake will spring up a viper, its fruit will be a darting, venomous serpent.
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| | Isa 14:30 | The poorest of the poor will find pasture, and the needy will lie down in safety. But your root I will destroy by famine; it will slay your survivors.
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| | Isa 14:31 | Wail, O gate! Howl, O city! Melt away, all you Philistines! A cloud of smoke comes from the north, and there is not a straggler in its ranks.
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| | Isa 14:32 | What answer shall be given to the envoys of that nation? "The LORD has established Zion, and in her his afflicted people will find refuge."
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