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CHAPTER 14.
HER time is near at hand, and her days shall not be prolonged. For the
Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose out of Israel, and will make
them rest upon their own ground: and the stranger shall be joined with them,
and shall adhere to the house of Jacob.
2 And the people shall take them, and bring them into
their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the Lord
for servants and handmaids: and they shall make them captives that had taken
them, and shall subdue their oppressors.
3 And it shall come to pass in that day, that when God
shall give thee rest from thy labour, and from thy vexation, and from the hard
bondage, wherewith thou didst serve before,
4 Thou shalt take up this parable against the king of
Babylon, and shalt say: How is the oppressor come to nothing, the tribute hath
ceased?
5 The Lord hath broken the staff of the wicked, the rod
of the rulers,
6 That struck the people in wrath with an incurable
wound, that brought nations under in fury, that persecuted in a cruel manner.
7 The whole earth is quiet and still, it is glad and
hath rejoiced.
8 The fir trees also have rejoiced over thee, and the
cedars of Libanus, saying: Since thou hast slept, there hath none come up to
cut us down.
9 Hell below was in an uproar to meet thee at thy
coming, it stirred up the giants for thee. All the princes of the earth are
risen up from their thrones, all the princes of nations.
10 All shall answer, and say to thee: Thou also art
wounded as well as we, thou art become like unto us.
11Thy pride is brought down to hell, thy carcass is
fallen down: under thee shall the moth be strewed, and worms shall be thy
covering.
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, who
didst rise in the morning? how art thou fallen to the earth, that didst wound
the nations?
13 And thou saidst in thy heart: I will ascend into
heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God, I will sit in the
mountain of the covenant, in the sides of the north.
14 I will ascend above the height of the clouds, I will
be like the most High.
15 But yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, into the
depth of the pit.
16 They that shall see thee, shall turn toward thee,
and behold thee. Is this the man that troubled the earth, that shook kingdoms,
17 That made the world a wilderness, and destroyed the
cities thereof, that opened not the prison to his prisoners?
18 All the kings of the nations have all of them slept
in glory, every one in his own house.
19 But thou art cast out of thy grave, as an
unprofitable branch defiled, and wrapped up among them that were slain by the
sword, and art gone down to the bottom of the pit, as a rotten carcass.
20 Thou shalt not keep company with them, even in
burial: for thou hast destroyed thy land, thou hast slain thy people: the seed
of the wicked shall not be named for ever.
21 Prepare his children for slaughter for the iniquity
of their fathers: they shall not rise up, nor inherit the land, nor fill the
face of the world with cities.
22 And I will rise up against them, saith the Lord of
hosts: and I will destroy the name of Babylon, and the remains, and the bud,
and the offspring, saith the Lord.
23 And I will make it a possession for the ericius and
pools of waters, and I will sweep it and wear it out with a besom, saith the
Lord of hosts.
24 The Lord of hosts hath sworn, saying: Surely as I
have thought, so shall it be: and as I have purposed,
25 So shall it fall out: That I will destroy the
Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: and his yoke
shall be taken away from them, and his burden shall be taken off their
shoulder.
26 This is the counsel, that I have purposed upon all
the earth, and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all nations.
27 For the Lord of hosts hath decreed, and who can
disannul it? and his hand is stretched out: and who shall turn it away?
28 In the year that king Achaz died, was this burden:
29 Rejoice not thou, whole Philistia, that the rod of
him that struck thee is broken in pieces: for out of the root of the serpent
shall come forth a basilisk, and his seed shall swallow the bird.
30 And the firstborn of the poor shall be fed, and the
poor shall rest with confidence: and I will make thy root perish with famine,
and I will kill thy remnant.
31 Howl, O gate; cry, O city: all Philistia is thrown
down: for a smoke shall come from the north, and there is none that shall
escape his troop.
32 And what shall be answered to the messengers of the
nations? That the Lord hath founded Sion, and the poor of his people shall hope
in him.
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