1. Her time is drawing near, and her days will not be prolonged. For the Lord will take pity on Jacob, and he will still choose from Israel, and he will cause them to rest upon their own soil. And the new arrival will be joined to them, and he will adhere to the house of Jacob.
2. And the people will take them, and lead them to their place. And the house of Israel will possess them, in the land of the Lord, as men and women servants. And they will take captive those who had taken them captive. And they will subjugate their oppressors.
3. And this shall be in that day: when God will have given you rest from your labor, and from your oppression, and from the difficult servitude under which you served before,
4. you will accept this parable against the king of Babylon, and you will say: "How is it that the oppressor has ceased, along with his tribute?
5. The Lord has crushed the staff of the impious, the scepter of despots,
6. which struck the people in wrath with an incurable wound, which subjugated the nations in fury, which persecuted with cruelty.
7. All the earth has become quiet and still; it has been gladdened and has rejoiced.
8. The evergreens, too, have rejoiced over you, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying: 'Since you have slept, no one has ascended who would cut us down.'
9. Hell below was stirred up to meet you at your advent; it has awakened the giants for you. All the leaders of the earth have risen from their thrones, all the leaders among the nations."