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you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon:

“How the oppressor has ceased!
How his fury[a] has ended!”
The Lord has broken the rod of the wicked,
the scepter of the rulers,
who struck down peoples with fury, blow after blow,
who ruled the nations in anger,
with a persecution that no one restrained.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 14:4 The translation follows the Dead Sea Scroll of Isaiah, the Greek, and the Syriac. The meaning of the Hebrew text is uncertain.