22AND IT WILL SING HYENAS IN PALACES ITS AND JACKALS IN [THE] PALACES OF DELIGHT AND [IS] NEAR TO GO TIME ITS AND DAYS ITS NOT THEY WILL BE PROLONGED 22Hyenas will howl in her fortresses and jackals*NoteCloseOr serpents or dragons in her luxurious palaces. Babylon’s time is at hand, and her days will not be prolonged.
1FOR HE WILL HAVE COMPASSION ON YAHWEH <OBJ.> JACOB AND HE WILL CHOOSE AGAIN <IN> ISRAEL AND HE WILL GIVE REST THEM ON OWN LAND THEIR AND HE WILL JOIN HIMSELF THE SOJOURNER TO THEM AND THEY WILL ATTACH THEMSELVES TO [THE] HOUSE OF JACOB Restoration for Israel 1For the LORD will have compassion on Jacob; once again He will choose Israel and settle them in their own land. The foreigner will join them and unite with the house of Jacob.
2AND THEY WILL TAKE THEM PEOPLES AND THEY WILL BRING THEM TO PLACE THEIR AND THEY WILL RECEIVE AS AN INHERITANCE THEM [THE] HOUSE OF ISRAEL ON [THE] LAND OF YAHWEH TO [MALE] SERVANTS AND TO FEMALE SERVANTS AND THEY WILL BE TAKING CAPTIVE <TO> CAPTORS THEIR AND THEY WILL RULE OVER OPPRESSORS THEIR 2The nations will escort Israel and bring it to its homeland. Then the house of Israel will possess the nations as menservants and maidservants in the LORD’s land. They will make captives of their captors and rule over their oppressors.
3AND IT WILL BE ON [THE] DAY GIVES REST YAHWEH TO <THE> YOU FROM PAIN YOUR AND FROM TURMOIL YOUR AND FROM THE LABOR <THE> HARD WHICH IT WAS LABORED BY <THE> YOU The Fall of the King of Babylon 3On the day that the LORD gives you rest from your pain and torment, and from the hard labor into which you were forced
4AND YOU WILL LIFT UP THE SAYING <THE> THIS ON [THE] KING OF BABYLON AND YOU WILL SAY HOW! HE HAS CEASED [THE] OPPRESSOR IT HAS CEASED RAGING 4you will sing this song of contempt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has ceased, and how his fury*NoteCloseDSS, LXX, and Syriac; MT the golden city has ended!
5HE HAS BROKEN YAHWEH [THE] STAFF OF WICKED [PEOPLE] [THE] SCEPTER OF RULERS 5The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers.
6[WHICH] STRUCK PEOPLES IN WRATH A BLOW <OF> NOT CEASING [WHICH] RULED IN <THE> ANGER NATIONS PERSECUTION [WHICH] NOT ANYONE RESTRAINED 6It struck the peoples in anger with unceasing blows; it subdued the nations in rage with relentless persecution.
7IT IS AT REST IT IS AT PEACE ALL THE EARTH PEOPLE HAVE BROKEN FORTH A SHOUT OF JOY 7All the earth is at peace and at rest; they break out in song.
8ALSO [THE] FIR TREES THEY HAVE REJOICED TO YOU [THE] CEDARS OF LEBANON FROM THEN YOU LAY DOWN NOT HE COMES UP THE [WOOD] CUTTER ON US 8Even the cypresses*NoteCloseOr pines or junipers or firs and cedars of Lebanon exult over you: “Since you have been laid low, no woodcutter comes against us.”
9SHEOL <FROM> BENEATH IT IS EXCITED TO YOU TO MEET COMING YOU IT HAS ROUSED TO <THE> YOU SHADES ALL [THE] LEADERS OF [THE] EARTH IT HAS MADE RISE FROM THRONES THEIR ALL [THE] KINGS OF [THE] NATIONS 9Sheol beneath is eager to meet you upon your arrival. It stirs the spirits of the dead to greet you— all the rulers of the earth. It makes all the kings of the nations rise from their thrones.
10ALL OF THEM THEY WILL ANSWER AND THEY MAY SAY TO YOU ALSO YOU YOU HAVE BEEN MADE WEAK LIKE US TO US YOU HAVE BECOME LIKE 10They will all respond to you, saying, “You too have become weak, as we are; you have become like us!”
11IT HAS BEEN BROUGHT DOWN SHEOL PRIDE YOUR [THE] SOUND OF LYRES YOUR UNDER YOU IT IS SPREAD AS A BED MAGGOT[S] AND COVERINGS YOUR [ARE] WORM[S] 11Your pomp has been brought down to Sheol, along with the music of your harps. Maggots are your bed and worms your blanket.
12HOW! YOU HAVE FALLEN FROM HEAVEN O SHINING ONE SON OF DAWN YOU HAVE BEEN CUT DOWN TO THE GROUND O DEFEATER OVER [THE] NATIONS 12How you have fallen from heaven, O day star,*NoteCloseOr morning star or shining one or Lucifer son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, O destroyer of nations.
13AND YOU YOU SAID IN HEART YOUR THE HEAVENS I WILL ASCEND FROM ABOVE <TO> [THE] STARS OF EL I WILL RAISE THRONE MY SO I MAY SIT ON [THE] MOUNTAIN OF APPOINTED MEETING IN [THE] REMOTEST PARTS OF ZAPHON 13You said in your heart: “I will ascend to the heavens; I will raise my throne above the stars of God. I will sit on the mount of assembly, in the far reaches of the north.*NoteCloseOr in the remote parts of Zaphon or on the heights of Zaphon
14I WILL ASCEND ABOVE [THE] HIGH PLACES OF [THE] CLOUD[S] I WILL MAKE MYSELF LIKE <TO> [THE] MOST HIGH 14I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.”
15NEVERTHELESS TO SHEOL YOU HAVE BEEN BROUGHT DOWN TO [THE] REMOTEST PARTS OF [THE] PIT 15But you will be brought down to Sheol, to the lowest depths of the Pit.
16[THOSE WHO] SEE YOU TO YOU THEY WILL STARE TO YOU THEY WILL CONSIDER CAREFULLY ¿ [IS] THIS THE MAN [WHO] MADE TREMBLE THE EARTH [WHO] MADE SHAKE KINGDOMS 16Those who see you will stare; they will ponder your fate: “Is this the man who shook the earth and made the kingdoms tremble,
17[WHO] MADE [THE] WORLD LIKE <THE> WILDERNESS AND CITIES ITS HE TORE DOWN PRISONERS HIS NOT HE OPENED HOME TOWARDS 17who turned the world into a desert and destroyed its cities, who refused to let the captives return to their homes?”
18ALL [THE] KINGS OF [THE] NATIONS ALL OF THEM THEY HAVE LAIN DOWN IN SPLENDOR EACH ONE IN OWN HOUSE HIS 18All the kings of the nations lie in state, each in his own tomb.*NoteCloseHebrew house
19AND YOU YOU HAVE BEEN THROWN OUT FROM TOMB YOUR LIKE A BRANCH ABHORRED [THE] CLOTHING OF [THOSE WHO] WERE SLAIN [WHO WERE] PIERCED OF [THE] SWORD [WHO] GO DOWN TO [THE] STONES OF [THE] PIT LIKE A CORPSE TRODDEN DOWN 19But you are cast out of your grave like a rejected branch, covered by those slain with the sword, and dumped into a rocky pit like a carcass trampled underfoot.
20NOT YOU WILL BE UNITED WITH THEM IN BURIAL FOR LAND YOUR YOU HAVE RUINED PEOPLE YOUR YOU HAVE SLAIN NOT IT WILL BE NAMED FOR EVER [THE] OFFSPRING OF EVIL-DOERS 20You will not join them in burial, since you have destroyed your land and slaughtered your own people. The offspring of the wicked will never again be mentioned.
21PREPARE FOR SONS HIS A PLACE OF SLAUGHTER IN [THE] INIQUITY OF ANCESTORS THEIR NOT THEY WILL ARISE AND THEY WILL TAKE POSSESSION OF [THE] EARTH AND THEY WILL FILL [THE] SURFACE OF [THE] WORLD CITIES 21Prepare a place to slaughter his sons for the iniquities of their forefathers. They will never rise up to possess a land or cover the earth with their cities.
22AND I WILL RISE UP ON THEM [THE] UTTERANCE OF YAHWEH OF HOSTS AND I WILL CUT OFF TO BABYLON NAME AND REMNANT AND POSTERITY AND PROGENY [THE] UTTERANCE OF YAHWEH 22“I will rise up against them,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will cut off from Babylon her name and her remnant, her offspring and her posterity,” declares the LORD.
23AND I WILL MAKE IT <INTO> A POSSESSION OF HEDGEHOG[S] AND REED-POOLS OF WATER AND I WILL SWEEP AWAY IT WITH A BROOM OF DESTRUCTION [THE] UTTERANCE OF YAHWEH OF HOSTS 23“I will make her a place for owls and for swamplands; I will sweep her away with the broom of destruction,” declares the LORD of Hosts.
24HE HAS SWORN YAHWEH OF HOSTS <TO> SAYING IF NOT JUST AS I HAVE INTENDED SO IT HAS HAPPENED AND JUST AS I HAVE PLANNED IT IT WILL STAND God’s Purpose against Assyria 24The LORD of Hosts has sworn: “Surely, as I have planned, so will it be; as I have purposed, so will it stand.
25TO BREAK ASSYRIA IN LAND MY AND ON MOUNTAINS MY I WILL TREAD DOWN IT AND IT WILL BE REMOVED FROM ON THEM YOKE ITS AND BURDEN ITS FROM ON SHOULDER ITS IT WILL BE REMOVED 25I will break Assyria in My land; I will trample him on My mountain. His yoke will be taken off My people, and his burden removed from their shoulders.”
26THIS [IS] THE PLAN WHICH IS PLANNED ON ALL THE EARTH AND THIS [IS] THE HAND WHICH IS STRETCHED OUT OVER ALL THE NATIONS 26This is the plan devised for the whole earth, and this is the hand stretched out over all the nations.
27FOR YAHWEH OF HOSTS HE HAS PLANNED AND WHO? WILL HE FRUSTRATE [IT] AND [IS] HAND HIS THE [ONE] STRETCHED OUT AND WHO? WILL HE TURN BACK IT 27The LORD of Hosts has purposed, and who can thwart Him? His hand is outstretched, so who can turn it back?
28IN [THE] YEAR OF [THE] DEATH OF THE KING AHAZ IT CAME THE ORACLE <THE> THIS Philistia Will Be Destroyed 28In the year that King Ahaz died, this burden was received:
29MAY NOT YOU REJOICE O PHILISTIA ALL OF YOU THAT IT HAS BEEN BROKEN [THE] ROD OF [THE] [ONE WHO] STRUCK YOU FOR FROM [THE] ROOT OF A SNAKE IT WILL GO FORTH A VIPER AND FRUIT ITS [WILL BE] A SERPENT FLYING 29Do not rejoice, all you Philistines, that the rod that struck you is broken. For a viper will spring from the root of the snake, and a flying serpent from its egg.
30AND THEY WILL GRAZE [THE] FIRSTBORN<S> OF POOR [PEOPLE] AND NEEDY [PEOPLE] TO SECURITY THEY WILL LIE DOWN AND I WILL PUT TO DEATH BY <THE> FAMINE ROOT YOUR AND REMNANT YOUR IT WILL KILL 30Then the firstborn of the poor will find pasture, and the needy will lie down in safety, but I will kill your root by famine, and your remnant will be slain.
31WAIL O GATE CRY OUT O CITY MELT AWAY O PHILISTIA ALL OF YOU FOR FROM [THE] NORTH SMOKE [IS] COMING AND THERE NOT [IS] AN ISOLATED [ONE] AMONG RANKS ITS 31Wail, O gate! Cry out, O city! Melt away, all you Philistines! For a cloud of smoke comes from the north, and there are no stragglers in its ranks.
32AND WHAT? WILL ANYONE ANSWER [THE] MESSENGERS OF A NATION THAT YAHWEH HE HAS FOUNDED ZION AND IN IT THEY WILL TAKE REFUGE [THE] AFFLICTED [PEOPLE] OF PEOPLE HIS 32What answer will be given to the envoys of that nation? “The LORD has founded Zion where His afflicted people will find refuge.”