³On the day that the LORD gives you rest from your pain and torment, and from the hard labor into which you were forced, ⁴you will sing this song of contempt against the king of Babylon: ⁵The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, ⁶It struck the peoples in anger ⁷All the earth is at peace and at rest; ⁸Even the cypresses and cedars of Lebanon ⁹Sheol beneath is eager ¹⁰They will all respond to you, saying, ¹¹Your pomp has been brought down to Sheol, ¹²How you have fallen from heaven, ¹³You said in your heart: ¹⁴I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; ¹⁵But you will be brought down to Sheol, ¹⁶Those who see you will stare; ¹⁷who turned the world into a desert ¹⁸All the kings of the nations lie in state, ¹⁹But you are cast out of your grave like a rejected branch, ²⁰You will not join them in burial, ²¹Prepare a place to slaughter his sons ²²“I will rise up against them,” ²³“I will make her a place