2 And the nations will take them and bring them to their place, and the house of Israel will take possession of them in the land of Yahweh as slaves and female slaves. And this will happen: they will take their captors captive and rule over their oppressors.
3 And it shall happen on the day Yahweh gives you rest from your pain and turmoil and hard labor which you had to perform,
4 that you will take this taunt against the king of Babylon, and you will say: “How the oppressor has ceased! his insolence has ceased.
5 Yahweh has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of rulers,
6 that struck the peoples in wrath, a blow without ceasing, that ruled the nations in anger with unrestrained persecution.
7 All of the earth rests and is quiet; they break forth into singing.
8 Even the cypresses rejoice over you, the cedars of Lebanon: ‘Since you were laid down, no wood cutter comes up against us.’