4. you will taunt the king of Babylon with these words:“Look how the oppressor has met his end!Hostility has ceased!
5. The Lord has broken the club of the wicked,the scepter of rulers.
6. It furiously struck down nationswith unceasing blows.It angrily ruled over nations,oppressing them without restraint.
7. The whole earth rests and is quiet;they break into song.
8. The evergreens also rejoice over your demise, as do the cedars of Lebanon, singing,‘Since you fell asleep,no woodsman comes up to chop us down!’
9. Sheol below is stirred up about you,ready to meet you when you arrive.It rouses the spirits of the dead for you,all the former leaders of the earth;it makes all the former kings of the nationsrise from their thrones.
10. All of them respond to you, saying:‘You too have become weak like us!You have become just like us!