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that you will take this taunt against the king of Babylon,
    and you will say:
“How the oppressor has ceased!
    his insolence[a] has ceased.
Yahweh has broken the staff of the wicked,
    the scepter of rulers,
that struck the peoples in wrath, a blow without ceasing,
    that ruled the nations in anger
    with unrestrained persecution.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 14:4 The meaning of the word is uncertain; others translate it as “fury,” “hostility,” or even “golden city”
  2. Isaiah 14:6 Literally “persecution without withholding”