Isaiah 14:1-8

The Lord YAHWEH will most certainly show tender mercy to the Israelites. He will choose them again and settle them in their own land. Even foreigners will accompany them and join with the Jewish people. Nations will take them back to their own place, and the Jews will own their enemies as their inheritance in the land YAHWEH gave them. They will take their captors captive and rule over those who once oppressed them. In that day, when the Lord YAHWEH has given you rest from your pain, trouble, and cruel bondage, you will jeer at the king of Babylon and recite this proverb: “Your oppressor has been stilled and your onslaught is over! The Lord YAHWEH has shattered the staff of the wicked, the brutal rod of the rulers. With their unceasing blows they used it cruelly to strike down nations. They subdued nations in anger with unrelenting persecution. But now the whole earth rests and is at peace. It bursts out with singing; even the cypresses and cedars of Lebanon join in, rejoicing over your demise, saying, ‘Now that you were laid low, no woodsman comes to cut us down.’ ”