3 When the Lord has given you rest from pain and trouble and from the hard labor that you perform,
4 you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon:How the oppressor has ceased!How the flood has receded!
5 The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked,the rod of tyrants
6 that struck peoples in rage with ceaseless blows,that ruled nations with anger,with relentless aggression.
7 All the earth rests quietly,then it breaks into song.
8 Even the cypresses rejoice over you,the cedars of Lebanon:"Since you were laid low,no logger comes up against us!"
9 The underworld beneath becomes restless to greet your arrival.It awakens the ghosts,all the leaders of earth;it makes the kings of the nations rise from their thrones.