Targum Isaiah

1For the Lord will have compassion upon the house of Jacob, and will delight again in Israel, and shall make them to dwell in their land; and proselytes shall be joined unto them, and they shall be united unto the house of Jacob.

2And the nations shall take them, and shall bring them to their land; and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the Shekinah of the Lord for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them, captives, whose captives they were; those who had made them their servants shall now serve them.

3And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall give thee rest from thy distress, from thy bondage, and from the hard servitude which was served upon thee,

4That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the dominion that made us servile ceased! How is come to an end the strength of the sinner!

5The Lord hath broken the strength of the wicked, the government of sinners,

6Of him who was smiting the people in fury, with a perpetual stroke, of him who was ruling the nations in anger, ruling and none hindered.

7The whole earth is at rest, is quiet, they rejoice with a song.

8Rulers also rejoiced over thee; the rich in treasures said, Since thou art laid down, the destroyer is not come up upon us.

9Hell from beneath is moved for thee, to meet thee at thy coming; she rouseth for thee the mighty: all the rich in treasures, all the kings of the nations rise from their thrones.

10All of them shall answer and say unto thee, Art thou become sick as we? Unto us, thou hast become like.

11Thy glory is brought down to the grave, the rattling noise of the songs of the musical instruments: the worm is spread under thee, and upon thee vermin.

12How art thou cast down from on high, who wast shining among the sons of men as the star Venus among the stars: thou art dashed down to the earth, who wast a slaughterer among the nations.

13And thou, thou hast said in thy heart, I will climb up the heavens; I will place the throne of my kingdom above the people of God, and I will sit upon the mountain of the solemn assembly upon the ends of the north;

14I will ascend over all people; I will be higher than all of them.

15But to the grave thou shalt be brought down, to the ends of the pit of the place of perdition.

16Those that see thee shall look attentively at thee, they shall consider thee, and say, "Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that laid waste kingdoms?

17That made the world as a wilderness, that laid waste its cities, and did not open the gate to his prisoners?

18All the kings of the nations, all of them, lie down in glory, each in his eternal abode."

19But thou art cast out of thy grave as a hidden branch, as those hidden among the slain, as those pierced by the sword, as those that are descending the lowest pit of the place of destruction, as a carcass trodden under foot.

20Thou shalt not be like one of them in burial; because thou hast destroyed thy country, thou hast slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall not be established for ever.

21Prepare ye slaughter for his children, for the iniquity of their fathers; lest they rise and possess the earth, and the faces of the world be filled with enemies.

22And I will reveal myself to take vengeance of them, saith the Lord of hosts; and I will destroy of Babylon the name, and the remnant, and the son, and the son's son, saith the Lord of hosts.

23And I will make it an inheritance for the hedgehog, a place of desolation, pools of water: and I will sweep her as they are sweeping with a besom: and I will throw her down to destroy her, saith the Lord of hosts.

24The Lord of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it be; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand.

25To break the Assyrian in my land, and upon the mountains of my people I will tread him under foot; then there shall depart from them his dominion, and his yoke off from their necks shall cease.

26This is the purpose that is purposed upon all the inhabitants of the earth; and this is the might of the ruler which is lifted up over all the kingdoms.

27For the Lord of hosts has purposed, and who can remove it? yea, His power is exalted, and who can withstand it?

28In the year that king Ahaz died was the burden of this prophecy.

29Rejoice not, 0 Philistia, all of ye, because the government that hath made you servile is broken; because from the children of Jesse shall come forth the Messiah, and his works among you shall be as a flying serpent.

30And the poor of my people shall be fed, and the meek in his days shall dwell in safety; and he shall slay with famine thy children, and the remnant of thy people he shall kill.

31Howl, on account of thy gate, cry on account of thy city, ye, O Philistines, all of you; ye shall be broken: because from the north vengeance is coming, and is not delaying its appointed time.

32And what good news will they tell the messengers of the nations? That the Lord hath founded Zion, and the poor of His people shall trust in it.