1. For the Lord will have compassion on Jacob and will again choose Israel, and will set them in their own land, and sojourners will join them and will attach themselves to the house of Jacob.
2. And the peoples will take them and bring them to their place, and the house of Israel will possess them in the Lord’s land as male and female slaves. They will take captive those who were their captors, and rule over those who oppressed them.
3. When the Lord has given you rest from your pain and turmoil and the hard service with which you were made to serve,
4. you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon:“How the oppressor has ceased, the insolent fury ceased!
5. The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked,the scepter of rulers,
6. that struck the peoples in wrathwith unceasing blows,that ruled the nations in angerwith unrelenting persecution.
7. The whole earth is at rest and quiet; they break forth into singing.
8. The cypresses rejoice at you, the cedars of Lebanon, saying,‘Since you were laid low,no woodcutter comes up against us.’
9. Sheol beneath is stirred upto meet you when you come;it rouses the shades to greet you,all who were leaders of the earth;it raises from their thronesall who were kings of the nations.
10. All of them will answerand say to you:‘You too have become as weak as we!You have become like us!’
11. Your pomp is brought down to Sheol,the sound of your harps;maggots are laid as a bed beneath you,and worms are your covers.