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Yeshayahu 14

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Module 2: The Burdens of the Nations and the Day of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄

For 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 will have mercy on Ya'aqob, and will yet choose Yashar'el, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Ya'aqob.

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And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Yashar'el shall possess them in the land of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.

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The Proverb Against the King of Babel

And it shall come to pass in the day that 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve,

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That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babel, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!

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𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers.

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He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth.

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The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing.

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Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Labanon, saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us.

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The Commotion of Sheol

Sheol 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.

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All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?

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Thy pomp is brought down to Sheol, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.

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The Fall of Helal Ben-Shachar

How art thou fallen from heaven, O Helal, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!

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For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of El: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:

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I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the Most High.

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Yet thou shalt be brought down to Sheol, to the sides of the pit.

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They 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;

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That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?

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The Burial of the Wicked and the Seed of Evildoers

All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in Kabod, every one in his own house.

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But 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.

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Thou 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.

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Prepare 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.

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The Decree of Total Deletion

For I will rise up against them, saith 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 of hosts, and cut off from Babel the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄.

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I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 of hosts.

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The Immutable Purpose and the Rod of Ashshuwr

𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 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:

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That I will break the Ashshuwr 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.

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This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.

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For 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?

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The Burden of Peleshet

In the year that king Achaz died was this burden.

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Rejoice not thou, whole Peleshet, 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.

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And 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.

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Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole Peleshet, art dissolved: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and none shall be alone in his appointed times.

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What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 hath founded Tziyon, and the poor of his people shall trust in it.