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Mockery of a tyrant

When the Lord has given you rest from pain and trouble and from the hard labor that you perform, you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon:

How the oppressor[a] has ceased!
    How the flood[b] has receded!
The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked,
    the rod of tyrants

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 14:4 Heb uncertain
  2. Isaiah 14:4 DSS (1QIsaa), LXX, Syr, Tg; MT fury

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