^{3 Ref} It shall happen in the day that Yahweh shall give you rest from your sorrow, and from your trouble, and from the hard service in which you were made to serve,

^{4 Ref} that you shall take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, How has the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!

^{5 Ref} Yahweh has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers;

^{6 Ref} who struck the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, who ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that none restrained.

^{7 Ref} The whole earth is at rest, [and] is quiet: they break forth into singing.