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you will lift up this song of mockery against[a] the king of Babylon:

“How the oppressor has come to an end!
    How the attacker[b] has ceased!
The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked,
    the scepter of rulers,
that struck down peoples in anger
    with unceasing blows,
that oppressed nations in fury
    with relentless persecution.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 14:4 So 1QIsaa MT LXX; 4QIsae reads to
  2. Isaiah 14:4 1QIsaa LXX; MT reads. the golden city