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Israel Mocks Babylon’s King

14 However, the Lord will have compassion on Jacob and will once again choose Israel. He will settle them in their own land, and foreigners will join them, affiliating themselves with the house of Jacob. Many[a] nations will take them and bring them to their land and[b] their own place. The house of Israel will put those nations[c] to conscripted labor[d] in the Lord’s land. They will take captive those who were their captors, and will rule continually[e] over those who oppressed them.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 14:2 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX lack Many
  2. Isaiah 14:2 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read and to
  3. Isaiah 14:2 Lit. put them
  4. Isaiah 14:2 Lit. to male and female slavery
  5. Isaiah 14:2 So 1QIsaa; 4QIsac LXX MT read rule