How the oppressor has quieted down,
and how the raging^[a] has become quiet!
⁵ The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked,
the scepter of the rulers.
⁶ It struck the peoples in anger
with unceasing blows.
It subdued the nations in rage
with relentless persecution.
⁷ All the earth is calm and at rest;
people shout with a ringing cry.
⁸ Even the cypresses and the cedars of Lebanon
rejoice over you:^(I)
“Since you have been laid low,
no woodcutter has come against us.”

⁹ Sheol below is eager to greet your coming.
He stirs up the spirits of the departed for you—
all the rulers^[b] of the earth.
He makes all the kings of the nations
rise from their thrones.
¹⁰ They all respond to you, saying:
“You too have become as weak as we are;
you have become like us!
¹¹ Your splendor has been brought down to Sheol,
along with the music of your harps.
Maggots are spread out under you,
and worms cover you.”

¹² Shining morning star,^[c](J)
how you have fallen from the heavens!^(K)
You destroyer of nations,
you have been cut down to the ground.
¹³ You said to yourself:
“I will ascend to the heavens;^(L)
I will set up my throne
above the stars of God.^(M)
I will sit on the mount of the gods’ assembly,
in the remotest parts of the North.^[d](N)
14 I will ascend above the highest clouds;
I will make myself like the Most High.”
¹⁵ But you will be brought down to Sheol
into the deepest regions of the Pit.^(O)

¹⁶ Those who see you will stare at you;
they will look closely at you:
“Is this the man who caused the earth to tremble,
who shook the kingdoms,
¹⁷ who turned the world into a wilderness,^(P)
who destroyed its cities
and would not release the prisoners to return home?”
¹⁸ All the kings of the nations
lie in splendor, each in his own tomb.
¹⁹ But you are thrown out without a grave,
like a worthless branch,
covered by those slain with the sword
and dumped into a rocky pit like a trampled corpse.
²⁰ You will not join them in burial,
because you destroyed your land
and slaughtered your own people.
The offspring of evildoers
will never be remembered.^(Q)
21 Prepare a place of slaughter for his sons,
because of the iniquity^(R) of their fathers.
They will never rise up to possess a land
or fill the surface of the earth with cities.

As I have purposed, so it will be;
as I have planned it, so it will happen.^(S)
25 I will break Assyria^(T) in My land;
I will tread him down on My mountain.
Then his yoke will be taken from them,
and his burden will be removed from their shoulders.
²⁶ This is the plan^(U) prepared
for the whole earth,
and this is the hand stretched out
against all the nations.
²⁷ The Lord of Hosts Himself has planned it;
therefore, who can stand in its way?
It is His hand that is outstretched,
so who can turn it back?

²⁹ Don’t rejoice, all of you in Philistia,
because the rod of the one who struck you^(X) is broken.
For a viper will come from the root^[f] of a snake,
and from its egg comes a flying serpent.^(Y)
30 Then the firstborn^(Z) of the poor will be well fed,
and the impoverished will lie down in safety,
but I will kill your root with hunger,
and your remnant will be slain.^[g]
31 Wail, you gates!^(AA) Cry out, city!
Tremble with fear,^(AB) all Philistia!
For a cloud of dust is coming from the north,^(AC)
and there is no one missing from the invader’s ranks.
³² What answer will be given to the messengers from that nation?
The Lord has founded Zion,^(AD)
and His afflicted people find refuge in her.