4. that you will take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, “How the oppressor has ceased! The golden city has ceased!”
5. The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked, the sceptre of the rulers,
6. who struck the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, who ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that no one restrained.
7. The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet. They break out in song.
8. Yes, the cypress trees rejoice with you, with the cedars of Lebanon, saying, “Since you are humbled, no lumberjack has come up against us.”