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Isaiah 14:3-8
The oppressor has ceased
The Oppressor Has Ceased · Isaiah 14
Story guide: TAUNT SONG | Rest replaces forced labor and the ruler’s blows cease. The uncut cedars and broken staff illustrate the song’s relief and personification.
Open this scene in the reader →3And it shall be, in the day when Yahweh gives you rest from your pain and your turmoil, and from the hard service with which you were made to serve,
4you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon, and say: “How the oppressor has ceased, the insolence has ceased!”
5Yahweh has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of rulers,
6striking peoples in fury with an unceasing blow, ruling nations in anger, with unrelenting persecution.
7All the earth is at rest and quiet; they break out in singing.
8Even the cypresses rejoice over you, the cedars of Lebanon: ‘Since you have lain down, no woodcutter comes up against us.’
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