“How the oppressor has ceased,
And how ^[c]fury has ceased!
⁵ “The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked,
The scepter of rulers
⁶ Which used to strike the peoples in fury with unceasing strokes,
Which ^[d]subdued the nations in anger with unrestrained persecution.
⁷ “The whole earth is at rest and is quiet;
They break forth into shouts of joy.
⁸ “Even the cypress trees rejoice over you, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying,
‘Since you were laid low, no tree cutter comes up against us.’
⁹ “Sheol from beneath is excited over you to meet you when you come;
It arouses for you the ^[e]spirits of the dead, all the ^[f]leaders of the earth;
It raises all the kings of the nations from their thrones.
¹⁰ “They will all respond and say to you,
‘Even you have been made weak as we,
You have become like us.
¹¹ ‘Your pomp and the music of your harps
Have been brought down to Sheol;
Maggots are spread out as your bed beneath you
And worms are your covering.’
¹² “How you have fallen from heaven,
O ^[g]star of the morning, son of the dawn!
You have been cut down to the earth,
You who have weakened the nations!
¹³ “But you said in your heart,
‘I will ascend to heaven;
I will raise my throne above the stars of God,
And I will sit on the mount of assembly
In the recesses of the north.
¹⁴ ‘I will ascend above the heights of the clouds;
I will make myself like the Most High.’
¹⁵ “Nevertheless you will be thrust down to Sheol,
To the recesses of the pit.
¹⁶ “Those who see you will gaze at you,
They will ^[h]ponder over you, saying,
‘Is this the man who made the earth tremble,
Who shook kingdoms,
¹⁷ Who made the world like a wilderness
And overthrew its cities,
Who did not ^[i]allow his prisoners to go home?’
¹⁸ “All the kings of the nations lie in glory,
Each in his own ^[j]tomb.
¹⁹ “But you have been cast out of your tomb
Like ^[k]a rejected branch,
^[l]Clothed with the slain who are pierced with a sword,
Who go down to the stones of the pit
Like a trampled corpse.
²⁰ “You will not be united with them in burial,
Because you have ruined your country,
You have slain your people.
May the offspring of evildoers not be mentioned forever.
²¹ “Prepare for his sons a place of slaughter
Because of the iniquity of their fathers.
They must not arise and take possession of the earth
And fill the face of the world with cities.”

²⁹ “Do not rejoice, O Philistia, all of you,
Because the rod that struck you is broken;
For from the serpent’s root a viper will come out,
And its fruit will be a flying serpent.
³⁰ “^[o]Those who are most helpless will eat,
And the needy will lie down in security;
I will ^[p]destroy your root with famine,
And it will kill off your survivors.
³¹ “Wail, O gate; cry, O city;
^[q]Melt away, O Philistia, all of you;
For smoke comes from the north,
And there is no straggler in his ranks.
³² “How then will one answer the messengers of the nation?
That the Lord has founded Zion,
And the afflicted of His people will seek refuge in it.”