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When the LORD will havecompassion on Jacob and againchooseIsrael, and settle them in their own land, then strangers will join them and attach themselves to the house of Jacob.
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The peoples will take them along and bring them to their place, and the house of Israel will possess them as an inheritance in the land of the LORD as maleservants and femaleservants*; and they will take their captorscaptive and will rule over their oppressors.
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"Sheol from beneath* is excited over you to meet you when you come; It arouses for you the spirits of the dead, all the leaders of the earth; It raisesall the kings of the nations from their thrones.
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"But you said in your heart, 'I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throneabove the stars of God, And I will sit on the mount of assembly In the recesses of the north.
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"But you have been cast out of your tomb Like a rejectedbranch, Clothed with the slain who are pierced with a sword, Who godown to the stones of the pit Like a trampledcorpse.
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"You will not be united with them in burial, Because you have ruined your country, You have slain your people. May the offspring of evildoers not be mentionedforever.
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"Prepare for his sons a place of slaughter Because of the iniquity of their fathers. They must not arise and takepossession of the earth And fill the face of the world with cities."
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"I will rise up against them," declares the LORD of hosts, "and will cutoff from Babylonname and survivors, offspring and posterity," declares the LORD.
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"I will also make it a possession for the hedgehog and swamps of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction," declares the LORD of hosts.
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to breakAssyria in My land, and I will trample him on My mountains. Then his yoke will be removed from them and his burdenremoved from their shoulder.
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"Do not rejoice, O Philistia, all of you, Because the rod that struck you is broken; For from the serpent'sroot a viper will come out, And its fruit will be a flyingserpent.
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"Those who are mosthelpless will eat, And the needy will liedown in security; I will destroy your root with famine, And it will kill off your survivors.