Catholic Public Domain Version
"you will accept this parable against the king of Babylon, and you will say: “How is it that the oppressor has ceased, along with his tribute? "
— Isaiah 14:4, Catholic Public Domain Version
“That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!”
“that thou shalt take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased! ”
“that you will take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, "How the oppressor has ceased! The golden city has ceased!"”
“you will taunt the king of Babylon with these words:“Look how the oppressor has met his end! Hostility has ceased!”
“Thou shalt take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and shalt say: How is the oppressor come to nothing, the tribute hath ceased?”
“That you will take up this bitter song against the king of Babylon, and say, How has the cruel overseer come to an end! He who was lifted up in pride is cut off;”
“That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!”
Her time is drawing near, and her days will not be prolonged. For the Lord will take pity on Jacob, and he will still choose from Israel, and he will cause them to rest upon their own soil. And the new arrival will be joined to them, and he will adhere to the house of Jacob.
And the people will take them, and lead them to their place. And the house of Israel will possess them, in the land of the Lord, as men and women servants. And they will take captive those who had taken them captive. And they will subjugate their oppressors.
And this shall be in that day: when God will have given you rest from your labor, and from your oppression, and from the difficult servitude under which you served before,
you will accept this parable against the king of Babylon, and you will say: “How is it that the oppressor has ceased, along with his tribute?
The Lord has crushed the staff of the impious, the scepter of despots,
which struck the people in wrath with an incurable wound, which subjugated the nations in fury, which persecuted with cruelty.
All the earth has become quiet and still; it has been gladdened and has rejoiced.