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CHAPTER 14
For the L
ORD
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.
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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 L
ORD
for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives
they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.
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And it shall come to pass in the day that the
L
ORD
shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein
thou wast made to serve,
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That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the
oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!
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The L
ORD
hath broken the staff of the wicked,
and
the
sceptre of the rulers.
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He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the
nations in anger, is persecuted,
and
none hindereth.
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The whole earth is at rest,
and
is quiet: they
break forth into singing.
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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.
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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.
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All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou
also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?
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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.
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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!
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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:
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I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
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Yet
thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
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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;
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That
made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof;
that
opened
not the house of his prisoners?
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All the kings of the nations,
even
all of them, lie in glory, every
one in his own house.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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For I will rise up against them, saith the L
ORD
of hosts,
and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith the L
ORD
.
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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 L
ORD
of hosts.
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The L
ORD
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:
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That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my
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