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Prophecy Against Babylon (continued)
14:1 For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will
yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the
strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave
to the house of Jacob.
14:2 And the people shall take them, and bring them to
their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in
the land of the LORD for servants and handmaids: and they
shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they
shall rule over their oppressors.
14:3 And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD
shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and
from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve,
14:4 That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king
of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the
golden city ceased!
14:5 The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the
sceptre of the rulers.
14:6 He who smote the people in wrath with a continual
stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted,
and none hindereth.
14:7 The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break
forth into singing.
14:8 Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of
Lebanon, saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come
up against us.
14:9 Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at
thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the
chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their
thrones all the kings of the nations.
14:10 All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also
become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?
14:11 Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise
of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms
cover thee.
14:12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of
the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which
didst weaken the nations!
14:13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into
heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I
will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the
sides of the north:
14:14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will
be like the most High.
14:15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides
of the pit.
14:16 They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and
consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth
to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;
14:17 That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed
the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his
prisoners?
14:18 All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie
in glory, every one in his own house.
14:19 But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable
branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust
through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit;
as a carcase trodden under feet.
14:20 Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because
thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed
of evildoers shall never be renowned.
14:21 Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity
of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the
land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.
14:22 For I will rise up against them, saith the LORD of
hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and
son, and nephew, saith the LORD.
14:23 I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and
pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of
destruction, saith the LORD of hosts.
A Prophecy Against
Assyria
14:24 The LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I
have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have
purposed, so shall it stand:
14:25 That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon
my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke
depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their
shoulders.
14:26 This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole
earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all
the nations.
14:27 For the LORD of hosts hath purposed, and who shall
disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall
turn it back?
A Prophecy Against the
Philistines
14:28 In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden.
14:29 Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of
him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root
shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a
fiery flying serpent.
14:30 And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the
needy shall lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root
with famine, and he shall slay thy remnant.
14:31 Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole Palestina, art
dissolved: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and
none shall be alone in his appointed times.
14:32 What shall one then answer the messengers of the
nation? That the LORD hath founded Zion, and the poor of his
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