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1 For ADONAI will have compassion on Ya'akov - he will once again choose Isra'el and resettle them in their own land, where foreigners will join them, attaching themselves to the house of Ya'akov.
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For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will again make Israel his special people, and will put them in their land; and the man from a strange country will take his place among them and be joined to the family of Jacob.
2 Peoples will take and escort them to their homeland, and the house of Isra'el will possess them in the land of ADONAI as male and female slaves. They will take their captors captive and rule over their oppressors.
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And the people will take them with them to their place: and the children of Israel will give them a heritage in the Lord's land as men-servants and women-servants, making them prisoners whose prisoners they were; and they will be rulers over their masters.
3 Then, when ADONAI gives you rest from your suffering and trouble and from the hard service imposed on you,
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And it will be, in the day when the Lord gives you rest from your sorrow, and from your trouble, and from the hard yoke which they had put on you,
4 you will take up this taunt-song against the king of Bavel: "At last the oppressor is stilled, his arrogance is ended!
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That you will take up this bitter song against the king of Babylon, and say, How has the cruel overseer come to an end! He who was lifted up in pride is cut off;
5 ADONAI has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers,
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The stick of the evil-doers, the rod of the rulers, is broken by the Lord;
6 which furiously struck down peoples with unceasing blows, angrily beating down nations with relentless persecution.
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He whose rod was on the peoples with an unending wrath, ruling the nations in passion, with an uncontrolled rule.
7 The whole earth is at rest and quiet. They break into song.
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All the earth is at rest and is quiet: they are bursting into song.
8 The cypresses rejoice over you, with the cedars of the L'vanon - 'Now that you are laid low, no one comes to cut us down.'
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Even the trees of the wood are glad over you, the trees of Lebanon, saying, From the time of your fall no wood-cutter has come up against us with an axe.
9 "Sh'ol below is stirred up to meet you when you come. It awakens for you the ghosts of the dead who were leaders on earth; it makes all the kings of the nations arise from their thrones.
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The underworld is moved at your coming: the shades of the dead are awake before you, even the strong ones of the earth; all the kings of the world have got up from their seats.
10 They all greet you with these words: 'Now you are as weak as we are, you have become like us!
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They all make answer and say to you, Have you become feeble like us? have you been made even as we are?
11 Your pride has been brought down to Sh'ol with the music of your lyres, under you a mattress of maggots, over you a blanket of worms.'
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Your pride has gone down into the underworld, and the noise of your instruments of music; the worms are under you, and your body is covered with them.
12 "How did you come to fall from the heavens, morning star, son of the dawn? How did you come to be cut to the ground, conqueror of nations?
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How great is your fall from heaven, O shining one, son of the morning! How are you cut down to the earth, low among the dead bodies!
Complete Jewish Bible Copyright 1998 by David H. Stern. Published by Jewish New Testament Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
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