KJ3 Literal Translation
Isaiah 14
Jehovah's merciful restoration of Israel. Their triumphant exultation over Babylon. Jehovah's purpose against Assyria.
1For Jehovah will have pity on Jacob, and will yet choose among Israel, and set them in their own land. And the alien shall be joined to them; and they shall join themselves to the house of Jacob.
2And the peoples shall take them and bring them to their own place. And the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of Jehovah for male slaves and female slaves. And they shall be captives of their captors; and they shall rule over the ones oppressing them.
3And it shall be, in the day that Jehovah shall give you rest from your pain, and from your trouble, and from the hard bondage which was served on you,
4you shall lift up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say: How the exacter, the gold gatherer, has ceased!
5Jehovah has broken the rod of the wicked one, the staff of rulers,
6who struck the peoples in wrath, a blow without turning away, ruling the nations in anger, persecution without restraint.
7All the earth is at rest, quiet; they break forth into singing.
8Yea, the fir trees rejoice over you; the cedars of Lebanon say, Since you have lain down, no one hewing will come up against us.
9Sheol from below is stirred for you, to meet you at your coming; it stirs up the departed spirits for you, all the he-goats of the earth. It has raised all the kings of the nations from their thrones.
10All of them shall answer and say to you, Are you also made as weak as we? Are you likened to us?
11Your majesty is lowered into Sheol; the noise of your harps. The maggot is spread under you; yea, the worms cover you.
12Oh shining star, son of the dawn, how you have fallen from the heavens; you weakening on the nations, you are cut down to the ground.
13For you have said in your heart, I will go up to the heavens; I will raise my throne above the stars of God, and I will sit in the mount of meeting, in the sides of the north.
14I will go up over the heights of the clouds; I will be likened to the Most High.
15Yet you shall go down to Sheol, to the sides of the Pit.
16They that see you shall stare and consider you, saying, Is this the man who made the earth tremble, shaking kingdoms,
17setting the world to be like a wilderness, and who tore down its cities; he did not open a house for his prisoners?
18All kings of nations, all of them lie in glory, each man in his house.
19But you are thrown from your grave like an abhorred branch, like the covering of the slain, those pierced by the sword, those who go down into the stones of the Pit, like a corpse trampled under foot.
20You shall not be united with them in burial, because you ruined your land; you have slain your people; the seed of evildoers shall never be named.
21Prepare for the slaughter of his sons, for the iniquity of their fathers; that they may not rise and possess the land and fill the face of the earth with cities.
22For I will rise against them, a statement of Jehovah of Hosts, and I will cut off the name and remnant, the son and posterity, from Babylon, a statement of Jehovah.
23Also I will make it a possession of a shrinking animal and pools of water; and I will sweep it with the broom of ruin, a statement of Jehovah of Hosts.
24Jehovah of Hosts has sworn, saying, If not as I have thought, so it shall be; and as I have purposed, it shall rise up;
25to break Assyria in My land, and trample him on My mountains, and his yoke shall depart from them, and his burden shall depart from his shoulders.
26This is the counsel that is counselled on all the earth; and this the hand that is stretched out on all the nations.
27For Jehovah of Hosts has purposed. And who shall reverse it? And His hand is stretched out. Who shall turn it back?
28This burden was in the year King Ahaz died:
29Do not rejoice, O Philistia, all of you, for the rod of your striking is broken, because a viper comes forth from the root of a snake, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.
30And the first-born of the poor ones shall feed; and the needy ones shall lie down in safety; and I will cause your root to die with famine; and it shall kill your remnant.
31Howl, O gate! Cry, O city! Philistia is melted away, all of you. For a smoke comes from the north, and not one is separated in his ranks.
32What then shall one answer to the messengers of the nation? That Jehovah has founded Zion, and the afflicted one of His people shall trust in it.
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