Daily Bible Reading

³ When the Lord has given you rest from your pain and turmoil and the hard service with which you were made to serve, ⁴ you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon:
 How the oppressor has ceased!
  How his insolence has ceased!
 ⁵ The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked,
  the scepter of rulers,
 ⁶ that struck down the peoples in wrath
  with unceasing blows,
 that ruled the nations in anger
  with unrelenting persecution.
 ⁷ The whole earth is at rest and quiet;
  they break forth into singing.
 ⁸ The cypresses exult over you,
  the cedars of Lebanon, saying,
 “Since you were laid low,
  no one comes to cut us down.”
 ⁹ Sheol beneath is stirred up
  to meet you when you come;
 it rouses the shades to greet you,
  all who were leaders of the earth;
 it raises from their thrones
  all who were kings of the nations.
 ¹⁰ All of them will speak
  and say to you:
 “You, too, have become as weak as we!
  You have become like us!”
 ¹¹ Your pomp is brought down to Sheol,
  and the sound of your harps;
 maggots are the bed beneath you,
  and worms are your covering.