From: rking164@comcast.net   
      
   On Monday, November 20, 2023 at 2:37:25 AM UTC-6, Lazarus Cain wrote:   
   > Isaiah14:    
   > The Lord will have compassion on Jacob;    
   > once again he will choose Israel    
   > and will settle them in their own land.    
   > Foreigners will join them    
   > and unite with the descendants of Jacob.    
   > 2 Nations will take them    
   > and bring them to their own place.    
   > And Israel will take possession of the nations    
   > and make them male and female servants in the Lord’s land.    
   > They will make captives of their captors    
   > and rule over their oppressors.    
   >    
   > 3 On the day the Lord gives you relief from your suffering and turmoil and   
   from the harsh labor forced on you, 4 you will take up this taunt against the   
   king of Babylon:    
   >    
   > How the oppressor has come to an end!    
   > How his fury[a] has ended!    
   > 5 The Lord has broken the rod of the wicked,    
   > the scepter of the rulers,    
   > 6 which in anger struck down peoples    
   > with unceasing blows,    
   > and in fury subdued nations    
   > with relentless aggression.    
   > 7 All the lands are at rest and at peace;    
   > they break into singing.    
   > 8 Even the junipers and the cedars of Lebanon    
   > gloat over you and say,    
   > “Now that you have been laid low,    
   > no one comes to cut us down.”    
   >    
   > 9 The realm of the dead below is all astir    
   > to meet you at your coming;    
   > it rouses the spirits of the departed to greet you—    
   > all those who were leaders in the world;    
   > it makes them rise from their thrones—    
   > all those who were kings over the nations.    
   > 10 They will all respond,    
   > they will say to you,    
   > “You also have become weak, as we are;    
   > you have become like us.”    
   > 11 All your pomp has been brought down to the grave,    
   > along with the noise of your harps;    
   > maggots are spread out beneath you    
   > and worms cover you.    
   >    
   > 12 How you have fallen from heaven,    
   > morning star, son of the dawn!    
   > You have been cast down to the earth,    
   > you who once laid low the nations!    
   > 13 You said in your heart,    
   > “I will ascend to the heavens;    
   > I will raise my throne    
   > above the stars of God;    
   > I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly,    
   > on the utmost heights of Mount Zaphon.[b]    
   > 14 I will ascend above the tops of the clouds;    
   > I will make myself like the Most High.”    
   > 15 But you are brought down to the realm of the dead,    
   > to the depths of the pit.    
   >    
   > 16 Those who see you stare at you,    
   > they ponder your fate:    
   > “Is this the man who shook the earth    
   > and made kingdoms tremble,    
   > 17 the man who made the world a wilderness,    
   > who overthrew its cities    
   > and would not let his captives go home?”    
   >    
   > 18 All the kings of the nations lie in state,    
   > each in his own tomb.    
   > 19 But you are cast out of your tomb    
   > like a rejected branch;    
   > you are covered with the slain,    
   > with those pierced by the sword,    
   > those who descend to the stones of the pit.    
   > Like a corpse trampled underfoot,    
   > 20 you will not join them in burial,    
   > for you have destroyed your land    
   > and killed your people.    
   >    
   > Let the offspring of the wicked    
   > never be mentioned again.    
   > 21 Prepare a place to slaughter his children    
   > for the sins of their ancestors;    
   > they are not to rise to inherit the land    
   > and cover the earth with their cities.    
   >    
   > 22 “I will rise up against them,”    
   > declares the Lord Almighty.    
   > “I will wipe out Babylon’s name and survivors,    
   > her offspring and descendants,”    
   > declares the Lord.    
   > 23 “I will turn her into a place for owls    
   > and into swampland;    
   > I will sweep her with the broom of destruction,”    
   > declares the Lord Almighty.    
   >    
   > 24 The Lord Almighty has sworn,    
   >    
   > “Surely, as I have planned, so it will be,    
   > and as I have purposed, so it will happen.    
   > 25 I will crush the Assyrian in my land;    
   > on my mountains I will trample him down.    
   > His yoke will be taken from my people,    
   > and his burden removed from their shoulders.”    
   >    
   > 26 This is the plan determined for the whole world;    
   > this is the hand stretched out over all nations.    
   > 27 For the Lord Almighty has purposed, and who can thwart him?    
   > His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?    
   >    
   > A Prophecy Against the Philistines    
   > 28 This prophecy came in the year King Ahaz died:    
   >    
   > 29 Do not rejoice, all you Philistines,    
   > that the rod that struck you is broken;    
   > from the root of that snake will spring up a viper,    
   > its fruit will be a darting, venomous serpent.    
   > 30 The poorest of the poor will find pasture,    
   > and the needy will lie down in safety.    
   > But your root I will destroy by famine;    
   > it will slay your survivors.    
   >    
   > 31 Wail, you gate! Howl, you city!    
   > Melt away, all you Philistines!    
   > A cloud of smoke comes from the north,    
   > and there is not a straggler in its ranks.    
   > 32 What answer shall be given    
   > to the envoys of that nation?    
   > “The Lord has established Zion,    
   > and in her his afflicted people will find refuge.”   
      
   Thinking of Putin's glory:   
      
   9 The realm of the dead below is all astir   
   to meet you at your coming;   
   it rouses the spirits of the departed to greet you—   
   all those who were leaders in the world;   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)