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Rh :The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet;
 * They break forth into singing.
 * Yea, the cypresses rejoice at thee,
 * And the cedars of Lebanon:
 * 'Since thou art laid down,
 * No feller is come up against us.'


 * The nether-world from beneath is moved for thee
 * To meet thee at thy coming;
 * The shades are stirred up for thee,
 * Even all the chief ones of the earth;
 * All the kings of the nations
 * Are raised up from their thrones.
 * All they do answer
 * And say unto thee:
 * 'Art thou also become weak as we?
 * Art thou become like unto us?
 * Thy pomp is brought down to the nether-world,
 * And the noise of thy psalteries;
 * The maggot is spread under thee,
 * And the worms cover thee.'


 * How art thou fallen from heaven,
 * O day-star, son of the morning!
 * How art thou cut down to the ground,
 * That didst cast lots over the nations!
 * And thou saidst in thy heart:
 * 'I will ascend into heaven,
 * Above the stars of God Will I exalt my throne,
 * And I will sit upon the mount of meeting,
 * In the uttermost parts of the north;
 * I will ascend above the heights of the clouds;
 * I will be like the Most High.'
 * Yet thou shalt be brought down to the nether-world,
 * To the uttermost parts of the pit.


 * They that saw thee do narrowly look upon thee,
 * They gaze earnestly at thee:
 * 'Is this the man that made the earth to tremble,
 * That did shake kingdoms;
 * That made the world as a wilderness,
 * And destroyed the cities thereof;
 * That opened not the house of his prisoners?'
 * All the kings of the nations,
 * All of them, sleep in glory,
 * Every one in his own house.
 * But thou art cast forth away from thy grave
 * Like an abhorred offshoot,
 * In the raiment of the slain, that are thrust through with the sword,
 * That go down to the pavement of the pit,
 * As a carcass trodden under foot.
 * Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial,
 * Because thou hast destroyed thy land,
 * Thou hast slain thy people;
 * The seed of evil-doers shall not
 * Be named for ever.
 * Prepare ye slaughter for his children
 * For the iniquity of their fathers;
 * That they rise not up, and possess the earth,
 * And fill the face of the world with cities.

And I will rise up against them, saith the of hosts, and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, and offshoot and offspring, saith the. I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water; and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the of hosts.


 * The of hosts hath sworn, saying:
 * Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass;
 * And as I have purposed, so shall it stand,