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¹ For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will still choose Israel, and settle them in their own land. The strangers will be joined with them, and they will cling to the house of Jacob. ² Then people will take them and bring them to their place, and the house of Israel will possess them for servants and maids in the land of the Lord; they will take them captive whose captives they were, and rule over their oppressors. ³ It shall come to pass in the day the Lord gives you rest from your sorrow, and from your fear and the hard bondage in which you were made to serve, ⁴ The golden city ceased! ⁵ The scepter of the rulers; ⁶ Is persecuted and no one hinders. ⁷ They break forth into singing. ⁸ No woodsman has come up against us.’ ⁹ All the kings of the nations. ¹⁰ Have you become like us? ¹¹ And worms cover you.’ ¹² You who weakened the nations! ¹³ On the farthest sides of the north; ¹⁴ I will be like the Most High.’ ¹⁵ To the lowest depths of the Pit. ¹⁶ Who shook kingdoms, ¹⁷ Who did not open the house of his prisoners?’ ¹⁸ Everyone in his own house; ¹⁹ Like a corpse trodden underfoot. ²⁰ The brood of evildoers shall never be named. ²¹ And fill the face of the world with cities.” ²² And offspring and posterity,” says the Lord. ²³ I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,” says the Lord of hosts. ²⁴ And as I have purposed, so it shall stand: ²⁵ And his burden removed from their shoulders. ²⁶ And this is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations. ²⁷ And who will turn it back?” ²⁸ This is the burden which came in the year that King Ahaz died. ²⁹ And its offspring will be a fiery flying serpent. ³⁰ And it will slay your remnant. ³¹ And no one will be alone in his appointed times.” ³² And the poor of His people shall take refuge in it.