1For the LORD will have compassion on Jacob; once again He will choose Israel and settle them in their own land. The foreigner will join them and unite with the house of Jacob.
2The nations will escort Israel and bring it to its homeland. Then the house of Israel will possess the nations as menservants and maidservants in the LORD’s land. They will make captives of their captors and rule over their oppressors.
3On the day that the LORD gives you rest from your pain and torment, and from the hard labor into which you were forced,
4you will sing this song of contempt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has ceased, and how his fury has ended!
5The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers.
6It struck the peoples in anger with unceasing blows; it subdued the nations in rage with relentless persecution.
7All the earth is at peace and at rest; they break out in song.
8Even the cypresses and cedars of Lebanon exult over you: “Since you have been laid low, no woodcutter comes against us.”