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The peoples will take them and will bring them to their own place. The house of Israel will possess them as male and female slaves in the Lord’s land, making captives of their captors and ruling their oppressors.

Mockery of a tyrant

When the Lord has given you rest from pain and trouble and from the hard labor that you perform, you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon:

How the oppressor[a] has ceased!
    How the flood[b] has receded!

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 14:4 Heb uncertain
  2. Isaiah 14:4 DSS (1QIsaa), LXX, Syr, Tg; MT fury

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