1 For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob,and will yet choose Israel,and set them in their own land.Then the strangers shall be joined with them,and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.
2 The people shall take themand bring them to their place,and the house of Israel shall possess themin the land of the Lord for servants and handmaids;and they shall take them captive, whose captives they were,and they shall rule over their oppressors.
3 In the day the Lord gives you rest from your sorrow, and from your fear, and from the hard bondage in which you were made to serve,
4 you shall take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say: How has the oppressor ceased!The golden city ceased!