1For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.[ † ]Psalms 102:13Isaiah 49:13-15Isaiah 54:7-8Isaiah 41:8-9Zechariah 1:17Zechariah 2:12Isaiah 60:4-5, 10 2And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the Lord for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.[ † ]Isaiah 49:22Isaiah 60:9Isaiah 66:20Isaiah 60:14
3And it shall come to pass in the day that the Lord shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve, 4that thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased![ † ]Isaiah 13:19Habakkuk 2:6Revelation 18:16 5The Lord hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers.[ † ]Psalms 125:3 6He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth. 7The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing. 8Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying , Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us.[ † ]Isaiah 55:12Ezekiel 31:16
9Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.[ † ]Ezekiel 32:21 10All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?[ † ]Ezekiel 32:21 11Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.
12How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations![ † ]Isaiah 34:4Luke 10:18Revelation 12:7-9 13For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:[ † ]Ezekiel 28:2Matthew 11:23Daniel 8:102 Thessalonians 2:4Ezekiel 28:14Psalms 48:2 14I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.[ † ]Isaiah 47:82 Thessalonians 2:4 15Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.[ † ]Ezekiel 28:8Matthew 11:23Luke 10:15
16They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; 17that made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners? 18All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house. 19But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.
20Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned.[ † ]Job 18:19Psalms 21:10Psalms 109:13Isaiah 1:4Isaiah 31:2 21Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.[ † ]Exodus 20:5Leviticus 26:39Isaiah 13:16Matthew 23:35
22For I will rise up against them, saith the Lord of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith the Lord .[ † ]Proverbs 10:7Isaiah 26:14Jeremiah 51:621 Kings 14:10Job 18:19Isaiah 47:9
23I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the Lord of hosts.[ † ]Isaiah 34:11Zephaniah 2:14
24The Lord of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:[ † ]Isaiah 43:13 25that I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.[ † ]Micah 5:5-6Zephaniah 2:13Isaiah 10:27Nahum 1:13 26This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.[ † ]Isaiah 23:9Zephaniah 3:6-8
27For the Lord of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?[ † ]2 Chronicles 20:6Job 9:12Job 23:13Psalms 33:11Proverbs 19:21Proverbs 21:30Isaiah 43:13Daniel 4:31-35
28In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden.[ † ]2 Kings 16:202 Chronicles 28:27
29Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.[ † ]2 Chronicles 26:62 Kings 18:8 30And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay thy remnant.
31Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole Palestina, art dissolved: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and none shall be alone in his appointed times. 32What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That the Lord hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it.[ † ]Psalms 87:1-5Zechariah 11:11