4that you shall take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, How has the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!
5Yahweh has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers;
6who struck the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, who ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that none restrained.
7The whole earth is at rest, [and] is quiet: they break forth into singing.
8Yes, the fir-trees rejoice at you, [and] the cedars of Lebanon, [saying], Since you are laid low, no lumberjack is come up against us.
9Sheol from beneath is moved for you to meet you at your coming; it stirs up the dead for you, even all the chief ones of the earth; it has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
10All they shall answer and tell you, Are you also become weak as we? are you become like us?
