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ISAIAH
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- 7The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet;
- They break forth into singing.
- 8Yea, the cypresses rejoice at thee,
- And the cedars of Lebanon:
- 'Since thou art laid down,
- No feller is come up against us.'
- 9The nether-world from beneath is moved for thee
- To meet thee at thy coming;
- The shades are stirred up for thee,
- Even all the chief ones of the earth;
- All the kings of the nations
- Are raised up from their thrones.
- 10All they do answer
- And say unto thee:
- 'Art thou also become weak as we?
- Art thou become like unto us?
- 11Thy pomp is brought down to the nether-world,
- And the noise of thy psalteries;
- The maggot is spread under thee,
- And the worms cover thee.'
- 12How art thou fallen from heaven,
- O day-star, son of the morning!
- How art thou cut down to the ground,
- That didst cast lots over the nations!
- 13And thou saidst in thy heart:
- 'I will ascend into heaven,
- Above the stars of God Will I exalt my throne,
- And I will sit upon the mount of meeting,
- In the uttermost parts of the north;
- 14I will ascend above the heights of the clouds;
- I will be like the Most High.'
- 15Yet thou shalt be brought down to the nether-world,
- To the uttermost parts of the pit.
- 16They that saw thee do narrowly look upon thee,
- They gaze earnestly at thee:
- 'Is this the man that made the earth to tremble,
- That did shake kingdoms;
- 17That made the world as a wilderness,
- And destroyed the cities thereof;
- That opened not the house of his prisoners?'
- 18All the kings of the nations,
- All of them, sleep in glory,
- Every one in his own house.
- 19But thou art cast forth away from thy grave
- Like an abhorred offshoot,
- In the raiment of the slain, that are thrust through with the sword,
- That go down to the pavement of the pit,
- As a carcass trodden under foot.
- 20Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial,
- Because thou hast destroyed thy land,
- Thou hast slain thy people;
- The seed of evil-doers shall not
- Be named for ever.
- 21Prepare ye slaughter for his children
- For the iniquity of their fathers;
- That they rise not up, and possess the earth,
- And fill the face of the world with cities.
22And I will rise up against them, saith the Lord of hosts, and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, and offshoot and offspring, saith the Lord. 23I 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.
- 24The 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,
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