Holy Scripture
Isaiah 14:6
A church father on this verse
“(Verse 6) That struck the people in anger with a continual stroke, that ruled the nations in wrath with a relentless persecution. Whose blow could not be withstood, who even cruelly pursued those fleeing.”
Source: Septuagint
Original
6Having smitten a nation in wrath, with an incurable plague, smiting a nation with a wrathful plague, which spared them not, he rested in quiet.
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4And thou shalt take up this lamentation against the king of Babylon, How has the extortioner ceased, and the taskmaster ceased!
5The Lord has broken the yoke of sinners, the yoke of princes.
— Isaiah 14:6 —
7All the earth cries aloud with joy:
8the trees also of Lebanon rejoice against thee, and the cedar of Lebanon, saying, From the time that thou hast been laid low, no one has come up to cut us down.