1For the Lord will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land. The foreigner will join himself with them, and they will unite with the house of Jacob.

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Psalms 102:13, Psalms 102:13, Zechariah 1:17, Zechariah 1:17, Zechariah 8:22

2The peoples will take them, and bring them to their place. The house of Israel will possess them in the Lord's land for servants and for handmaids. They will take as captives those whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.

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Isaiah 61:5, Isaiah 61:5, Isaiah 60:14, Isaiah 60:14, Jeremiah 30:16

3It will happen in the day that the Lord will give you rest from your sorrow, from your trouble, and from the hard service in which you were made to serve,

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Jeremiah 30:10, Jeremiah 30:10, Ezra 9:8, Ezra 9:9, Isaiah 32:18

4that you will take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, "How the oppressor has ceased! How the attacker has ceased!"

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Isaiah 49:26, Isaiah 49:26, Revelation 18:5, Revelation 18:8, Habakkuk 1:2

5The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers,

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Isaiah 9:4, Psalms 125:3, Isaiah 9:4, Psalms 125:3, Jeremiah 48:15

6who struck the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, who ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that none restrained.

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Daniel 7:19, Daniel 7:21, Daniel 7:19, Daniel 7:21, Jeremiah 50:31

7The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet. They break out song.

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Psalms 126:1, Psalms 126:3, Psalms 126:1, Psalms 126:3, Isaiah 49:13

8Yes, the fir trees rejoice with you, with the cedars of Lebanon, saying, "Since you are humbled, no lumberjack has come up against us."

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Ezekiel 31:16, Ezekiel 31:16, Isaiah 55:12, Isaiah 55:13, Zechariah 11:2

9Sheol from beneath has moved for you to meet you at your coming. It stirs up the dead for you, even all the rulers of the earth. It has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

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Ezekiel 32:21, Ezekiel 32:32, Ezekiel 32:21, Ezekiel 32:32, Jeremiah 50:8

10They all will answer and ask you, "Have you also become as weak as we are? Have you become like us?"

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Ecclesiastes 2:16, Psalms 49:20, Psalms 82:6, Psalms 82:7, Ezekiel 32:21

11Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, with the sound of your stringed instruments. Maggots are spread out under you, and worms cover you.

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Daniel 5:25, Daniel 5:30, Daniel 5:25, Daniel 5:30, Daniel 5:1

12How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low!

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Ezekiel 28:13, Ezekiel 28:17, Ezekiel 28:13, Ezekiel 28:17, Luke 10:18

13You said in your heart, "I will ascend into heaven! I will exalt my throne above the stars of God! I will sit on the mountain of assembly, in the far north!

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Daniel 8:10, Daniel 8:12, Daniel 8:10, Daniel 8:12, Ezekiel 28:2

14I will ascend above the heights of the clouds! I will make myself like the Most High!"

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Isaiah 47:8, Isaiah 47:8, Genesis 3:5, Genesis 3:5, 2 Thessalonians 2:4

15Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the pit.

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Matthew 11:23, Matthew 11:23, Acts 12:22, Acts 12:23, Ezekiel 32:23

16Those who see you will stare at you. They will ponder you, saying, "Is this the man who made the earth to tremble, who shook kingdoms;

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Psalms 58:10, Psalms 58:11, Jeremiah 50:23, Psalms 58:10, Psalms 58:11

17who made the world like a wilderness, and overthrew its cities; who did not release his prisoners to their home?"

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Joel 2:3, Joel 2:3, Isaiah 13:19, Isaiah 13:22, Ezra 1:2

18All the kings of the nations, sleep in glory, everyone in his own house.

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2 Chronicles 24:25, Job 30:23, Ezekiel 32:18, Ezekiel 32:32, 2 Chronicles 24:16

19But you are cast away from your tomb like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, who are thrust through with the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit; like a dead body trodden under foot.

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Jeremiah 41:9, Jeremiah 41:7, Jeremiah 41:9, Jeremiah 41:7, 1 Kings 21:19

20You will not join them in burial, because you have destroyed your land. You have killed your people. The seed of evildoers will not be named forever.

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Psalms 21:10, Job 18:19, Psalms 21:10, Job 18:19, Psalms 37:28

21Prepare for slaughter of his children because of the iniquity of their fathers, that they not rise up and possess the earth, and fill the surface of the world with cities.

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Matthew 23:35, Exodus 20:5, Leviticus 26:39, Habakkuk 2:8, Habakkuk 2:12

22"I will rise up against them," says the Lord of hosts, "and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, and son and son's son," says the Lord.

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Proverbs 10:7, 1 Kings 14:10, Jeremiah 50:29, Jeremiah 50:35, Proverbs 10:7

23"I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, and pools of water. I will sweep it with the broom of destruction," says the Lord of hosts.

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Zephaniah 2:14, Zephaniah 2:14, Revelation 14:8, Isaiah 13:21, Isaiah 13:22

24The Lord of hosts has sworn, saying, "Surely, as I have thought, so shall it happen; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:

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Proverbs 19:21, Proverbs 19:21, Job 23:13, Isaiah 46:10, Isaiah 46:11

25that I will break the Assyrian in my land, and tread him under foot on my mountains. Then his yoke will leave them, and his burden leave their shoulders.

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Isaiah 9:4, Isaiah 9:4, Isaiah 37:36, Isaiah 37:38, Nahum 1:13

26This is the plan that is determined for the whole earth. This is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations.

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Isaiah 23:9, Isaiah 23:9, Exodus 15:12, Zephaniah 3:6, Zephaniah 3:8

27For the Lord of hosts has planned, and who can stop it? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?"

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Isaiah 43:13, Isaiah 43:13, Job 23:13, Job 23:13, 2 Chronicles 20:6

28This burden was in the year that king Ahaz died.

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2 Kings 16:20, 2 Kings 16:20, Isaiah 13:1, 2 Chronicles 28:27, Isaiah 13:1

29Do not rejoice, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod that struck you is broken; for out of the serpent's root an adder will emerge, and his fruit will be a fiery flying serpent.

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Isaiah 30:6, Isaiah 11:8, 2 Chronicles 26:6, Isaiah 30:6, Isaiah 11:8

30The firstborn of the poor will eat, and the needy will lie down in safety; and I will kill your root with famine, and your remnant will be killed.

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Isaiah 7:21, Isaiah 7:22, Isaiah 7:21, Isaiah 7:22, Zephaniah 2:4

31Howl, gate! Cry, city! You are melted away, Philistia, all of you; for smoke comes out of the north, and there is no straggler in his ranks.

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Isaiah 20:1, Jeremiah 1:14, Isaiah 20:1, Jeremiah 1:14, Isaiah 13:6

32What will they answer the messengers of the nation? That the Lord has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people will take refuge.

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Psalms 102:16, Psalms 87:5, Psalms 102:16, Psalms 87:5, James 2:5