4 that you will take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say:“How the oppressor has ceased,The golden city ceased!
5 The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked,The scepter of the rulers;
6 He who struck the people in wrath with a continual stroke,He who ruled the nations in anger,Is persecuted and no one hinders.
7 The whole earth is at rest and quiet;They break forth into singing.
8 Indeed the cypress trees rejoice over you,And the cedars of Lebanon,Saying, ‘Since you were cut down,No woodsman has come up against us.’
9 “Hell from beneath is excited about you,To meet you at your coming;It stirs up the dead for you,All the chief ones of the earth;It has raised up from their thronesAll the kings of the nations.
10 They all shall speak and say to you:‘Have you also become as weak as we?Have you become like us?