^(B)“Woe to him ^(C)who heaps up what is not his own—
    for ^(D)how long?—
    and ^(E)loads himself with pledges!”

“How the oppressor has ceased,
    ^(B)the insolent fury^[a] ceased!
⁵ The Lord has broken the ^(C)staff of the wicked,
    the ^(D)scepter of rulers,
^6 (E)that struck the peoples in wrath
    with unceasing blows,
that ruled the nations in anger
    with unrelenting persecution.
⁷ The whole earth is at rest and quiet;
    ^(F)they break forth into singing.
^8 (G)(H)The cypresses rejoice at you,
    ^(I)the cedars of Lebanon, saying,
‘Since you were laid low,
    no woodcutter comes up against us.’
⁹ Sheol beneath is stirred up
    to meet you when you come;
it rouses the shades to greet you,
    all who were leaders of the earth;
it raises from their thrones
    all who were kings of the nations.
^10 (J)All of them will answer
    and say to you:
‘You too have become as weak as we!
    You have become like us!’
¹¹ Your pomp is brought down to Sheol,
    the sound of your harps;
maggots are laid as a bed beneath you,
    and worms are your covers.

¹² “How ^(K)you are fallen from heaven,
    O Day Star, ^(L)son of Dawn!
How you are cut down to the ground,
    you who laid the nations low!
¹³ You said in your heart,
    ^(M)‘I will ascend to heaven;
above the stars of God
    ^(N)I will set my throne on high;
I will sit on the mount of assembly
    in the far reaches of the north;^[b]
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds;
    I will make myself like the Most High.’
^15 (O)But you are brought down to Sheol,
    to the far reaches of the pit.
¹⁶ Those who see you will stare at you
    and ponder over you:
‘Is this ^(P)the man who made the earth tremble,
    who shook kingdoms,
¹⁷ who made the world like a desert
    and overthrew its cities,
    ^(Q)who did not let his prisoners go home?’
¹⁸ All the kings of the nations lie in glory,
    each in his own tomb;^[c]
19 but you are cast out, away from your grave,
    like a loathed branch,
^(R)clothed with the slain, those pierced by the sword,
    who go down to the stones of the pit,
    like a dead body trampled underfoot.

²⁰ “Because he ^(G)knew no ^(H)contentment in his belly,
    ^(I)he will not let anything in which he delights escape him.
²¹ There was nothing left after he had eaten;
    therefore his prosperity will not endure.
²² In the fullness of his sufficiency he will be in distress;
    the hand of everyone in misery will come against him.
²³ To fill his belly to the full,
    God^[a] will send his burning anger against him
    and rain it upon him ^(J)into his body.
^24 (K)He will flee from an iron weapon;
    ^(L)a bronze arrow will strike ^(M)him through.
²⁵ It ^(N)is drawn forth and comes out of his body;
    ^(O)the glittering point comes out of his ^(P)gallbladder;
    ^(Q)terrors come upon him.
²⁶ Utter darkness is laid up for his treasures;
    ^(R)a fire not fanned will devour him;
    what is left in his tent will be consumed.
^27 (S)The heavens will reveal his iniquity,
    and the earth will rise up against him.
²⁸ The possessions of his house will be carried away,
    dragged off in the day of God's^[b] wrath.
^29 (T)This is the wicked man's portion from God,
    ^(U)the heritage decreed for him by God.”

“From ^(B)Aram Balak has brought me,
    the king of Moab ^(C)from the eastern mountains:
‘Come, ^(D)curse Jacob for me,
    and come, denounce Israel!’