Isaiah 14

The Restoration of Jacob

1 n For the Lord will have compassion on Jacob and will again choose Israel, and o will set them in their own land, and p sojourners will join them and will attach themselves to the house of Jacob. 2 And q the peoples will take them and bring them to their place, and the house of Israel will possess them in the Lord's land r as male and female slaves. s They will take captive those who were their captors, t and rule over those who oppressed them.

Israel's Remnant Taunts Babylon

3 When the Lord has given you rest from your pain and turmoil and the hard service with which you were made to serve,

4 you will take up this u taunt against the king of Babylon:
"How the oppressor has ceased,
v the insolent fury 1 ceased!
5 The Lord has broken the w staff of the wicked,
the w scepter of rulers,
6 x that struck the peoples in wrath
with unceasing blows,
that ruled the nations in anger
with unrelenting persecution.
7 The whole earth is at rest and quiet;
y they break forth into singing.
8 z a The cypresses rejoice at you,
b the cedars of Lebanon, saying,
'Since you were laid low,
no woodcutter comes up against us.'
9 Sheol beneath is stirred up
to meet you when you come;
it rouses the shades to greet you,
all who were leaders of the earth;
it raises from their thrones
all who were kings of the nations.
10 c All of them will answer
and say to you:
'You too have become as weak as we!
You have become like us!'
11 Your pomp is brought down to Sheol,
the sound of your harps;
maggots are laid as a bed beneath you,
and worms are your covers.

12 "How d you are fallen from heaven,
O Day Star, e son of Dawn!
How you are cut down to the ground,
you who laid the nations low!
13 You said in your heart,
f 'I will ascend to heaven;
above the stars of God
g I will set my throne on high;
I will sit on the mount of assembly
in the far reaches of the north; 2
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds;
I will make myself like the Most High.'
15 h But you are brought down to Sheol,
to the far reaches of the pit.
16 Those who see you will stare at you
and ponder over you:
'Is this i the man who made the earth tremble,
who shook kingdoms,
17 who made the world like a desert
and overthrew its cities,
j who did not let his prisoners go home?'
18 All the kings of the nations lie in glory,
each in his own tomb; 3
19 but you are cast out, away from your grave,
like a loathed branch,
k clothed with the slain, those pierced by the sword,
who go down to the stones of the pit,
like a dead body trampled underfoot.

20 You will not be joined with them in burial,
because you have destroyed your land,
you have slain your people.
"May l the offspring of evildoers
nevermore be named!
21 Prepare slaughter for his sons
m because of the guilt of their fathers,
lest they rise and possess the earth,
and fill the face of the world with cities."

22 "I will rise up against them," declares the Lord of hosts, "and will cut off from Babylon name and n remnant, o descendants and posterity," declares the Lord. 23 "And I will make it a possession of the p hedgehog, 4 and pools of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction," declares the Lord of hosts.

An Oracle Concerning Assyria

24 The Lord of hosts has sworn:
q "As I have planned,
so shall it be,
and as I have purposed,
so shall it stand,
25 that r I will break the Assyrian in my land,
and on my mountains trample him underfoot;
and s his yoke shall depart from them,
and s his burden from their shoulder."

26 This is the purpose that is purposed
concerning the whole earth,
and this is t the hand that is stretched out
over all the nations.
27 u For the Lord of hosts has purposed,
and who will annul it?
t His hand is stretched out,
and who will turn it back?

An Oracle Concerning Philistia

28 In the year that v King Ahaz died came this w oracle:

29 Rejoice not, x O Philistia, all of you,
that y the rod that struck you is broken,
for from the serpent's root will come forth an adder,
and its fruit will be a z flying fiery serpent.
30 And the firstborn of a the poor will graze,
and a the needy lie down in safety;
but I will kill your root with famine,
and your remnant it will slay.
31 b Wail, O c gate; cry out, O city;
melt in fear, x O Philistia, all of you!
d For smoke comes out of the north,
and there is no straggler in his ranks.

32 What will one answer the messengers of the nation?
e "The Lord has founded Zion,
and in her the afflicted of his people find refuge."

  1. Cross References
    Psalms 102:13
    You will arise and have pity on Zion; it is the time to favor her; the appointed time has come.
    Zechariah 1:17
    Cry out again, Thus says the Lord of hosts: My cities shall again overflow with prosperity, and the Lord will again comfort Zion and again choose Jerusalem.'
  2. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 36:22 - 23
    Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and also put it in writing:
  3. Cross References
    Zechariah 8:22 - 23
    Many peoples and strong nations shall come to seek the Lord of hosts in Jerusalem and to entreat the favor of the Lord.
    Ephesians 2:12 - 14
    Remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
  4. Cross References
    Isaiah 49:22
    Thus says the Lord God : "Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations, and raise my signal to the peoples; and they shall bring your sons in their bosom, and your daughters shall be carried on their shoulders.
    Isaiah 60:9
    For the coastlands shall hope for me, the ships of Tarshish first, to bring your children from afar, their silver and gold with them, for the name of the Lord your God, and for the Holy One of Israel, because he has made you beautiful.
    Isaiah 66:20
    And they shall bring all your brothers from all the nations as an offering to the Lord, on horses and in chariots and in litters and on mules and on dromedaries, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, says the Lord, just as the Israelites bring their grain offering in a clean vessel to the house of the Lord.
  5. Cross References
    Isaiah 61:5
    Strangers shall stand and tend your flocks; foreigners shall be your plowmen and vinedressers.
  6. Cross References
    Joel 3:8
    I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the Sabeans, to a nation far away, for the Lord has spoken.
  7. Cross References
    Isaiah 60:14
    The sons of those who afflicted you shall come bending low to you, and all who despised you shall bow down at your feet; they shall call you the City of the Lord, the Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
  8. Cross References
    Micah 2:4
    In that day they shall take up a taunt song against you and moan bitterly, and say, "We are utterly ruined; he changes the portion of my people; how he removes it from me! To an apostate he allots our fields.
    Habakkuk 2:6
    Shall not all these take up their taunt against him, with scoffing and riddles for him, and say, "Woe to him who heaps up what is not his own - for how long? - and loads himself with pledges!
  9. Cross References
    Jeremiah 51:13
    O you who dwell by many waters, rich in treasures, your end has come; the thread of your life is cut.
    Revelation 18:16
    Alas, alas, for the great city that was clothed in fine linen, in purple and scarlet, adorned with gold, with jewels, and with pearls!
  10. Cross References
    Isaiah 9:4
    For the yoke of his burden, and the staff for his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, you have broken as on the day of Midian.
  11. Cross References
    Isaiah 9:4
    For the yoke of his burden, and the staff for his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, you have broken as on the day of Midian.
  12. Cross References
    Jeremiah 50:23
    How the hammer of the whole earth is cut down and broken! How Babylon has become a horror among the nations!
  13. Cross References
    Isaiah 44:23
    Sing, O heavens, for the Lord has done it; shout, O depths of the earth; break forth into singing, O mountains, O forest, and every tree in it! For the Lord has redeemed Jacob, and will be glorified in Israel.
    Isaiah 49:13
    Sing for joy, O heavens, and exult, O earth; break forth, O mountains, into singing! For the Lord has comforted his people and will have compassion on his afflicted.
    Isaiah 54:1
    Sing, O barren one, who did not bear; break forth into singing and cry aloud, you who have not been in labor! For the children of the desolate one will be more than the children of her who is married," says the Lord.
    Isaiah 55:12
    For you shall go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and the hills before you shall break forth into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
  14. Cross References
    Ezekiel 31:16
    I made the nations quake at the sound of its fall, when I cast it down to Sheol with those who go down to the pit. And all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the world below.
  15. Cross References
    Isaiah 37:24
    By your servants you have mocked the Lord, and you have said, With my many chariots I have gone up the heights of the mountains, to the far recesses of Lebanon, to cut down its tallest cedars, its choicest cypresses, to come to its remotest height, its most fruitful forest.
  16. Cross References
    Isaiah 2:13
    Against all the cedars of Lebanon, lofty and lifted up; and against all the oaks of Bashan.
  17. Cross References
    Jeremiah 51:48
    Then the heavens and the earth, and all that is in them, shall sing for joy over Babylon, for the destroyers shall come against them out of the north, declares the Lord.
  18. Cross References
    Isaiah 24:21
    On that day the Lord will punish the host of heaven, in heaven, and the kings of the earth, on the earth.
    Isaiah 34:3
    Their slain shall be cast out, and the stench of their corpses shall rise; the mountains shall flow with their blood.
  19. Cross References
    Job 38:7
    When the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
  20. Cross References
    Jeremiah 51:53
    Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she should fortify her strong height, yet destroyers would come from me against her, declares the Lord.
    Amos 9:2
    If they dig into Sheol, from there shall my hand take them; if they climb up to heaven, from there I will bring them down.
    Matthew 11:23
    And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? You will be brought down to Hades. For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.
    Luke 10:15
    And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? You shall be brought down to Hades.
  21. Cross References
    Daniel 5:22 - 23
    And you his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, though you knew all this.
    2 Thessalonians 2:4
    Who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.
  22. Cross References
    Ezekiel 32:23
    Whose graves are set in the uttermost parts of the pit; and her company is all around her grave, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, who spread terror in the land of the living.
    Matthew 11:23
    And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? You will be brought down to Hades. For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.
    Luke 10:15
    And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? You shall be brought down to Hades.
  23. Cross References
    Jeremiah 50:23
    How the hammer of the whole earth is cut down and broken! How Babylon has become a horror among the nations!
  24. Cross References
    Jeremiah 50:33
    Thus says the Lord of hosts: The people of Israel are oppressed, and the people of Judah with them. All who took them captive have held them fast; they refuse to let them go.
  25. Cross References
    Ezekiel 32:20
    They shall fall amid those who are slain by the sword. Egypt is delivered to the sword; drag her away, and all her multitudes.
  26. Cross References
    Job 18:19
    He has no posterity or progeny among his people, and no survivor where he used to live.
    Psalms 21:10
    You will destroy their descendants from the earth, and their offspring from among the children of man.
    Psalms 109:13
    May his posterity be cut off; may his name be blotted out in the second generation!
  27. Cross References
    Exodus 20:5
    You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me.
    Matthew 23:35
    So that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of innocent Abel to the blood of Zechariah the son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.
  28. Cross References
    Jeremiah 51:50
    You who have escaped from the sword, go, do not stand still! Remember the Lord from far away, and let Jerusalem come into your mind:
    Jeremiah 51:62
    And say, 'O Lord, you have said concerning this place that you will cut it off, so that nothing shall dwell in it, neither man nor beast, and it shall be desolate forever.
  29. Cross References
    Job 18:19
    He has no posterity or progeny among his people, and no survivor where he used to live.
    Genesis 21:23
    Now therefore swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me or with my descendants or with my posterity, but as I have dealt kindly with you, so you will deal with me and with the land where you have sojourned.
  30. Cross References
    Isaiah 34:11
    But the hawk and the porcupine shall possess it, the owl and the raven shall dwell in it. He shall stretch the line of confusion over it, and the plumb line of emptiness.
    Zephaniah 2:14
    Herds shall lie down in her midst, all kinds of beasts; even the owl and the hedgehog shall lodge in her capitals; a voice shall hoot in the window; devastation will be on the threshold; for her cedar work will be laid bare.
  31. Cross References
    Proverbs 19:21
    Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand.
  32. Cross References
    Isaiah 37:36
    And the angel of the Lord went out and struck down a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. And when people arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
  33. Cross References
    Isaiah 9:4
    For the yoke of his burden, and the staff for his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, you have broken as on the day of Midian.
    Isaiah 10:27
    And in that day his burden will depart from your shoulder, and his yoke from your neck; and the yoke will be broken because of the fat.
  34. Cross References
    Isaiah 9:4
    For the yoke of his burden, and the staff for his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, you have broken as on the day of Midian.
    Isaiah 10:27
    And in that day his burden will depart from your shoulder, and his yoke from your neck; and the yoke will be broken because of the fat.
  35. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 4:34
    Or has any god ever attempted to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, and by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by great deeds of terror, all of which the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
  36. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 20:6
    And said, "O Lord, God of our fathers, are you ...
    Job 9:12
    Behold, he snatches away; who can turn him back...
    Psalms 33:11
    The counsel of the Lord stands forever, the pla...
    Proverbs 21:30
    No wisdom, no understanding, no counsel can ava...
    Daniel 4:31
    While the words were still in the king's mouth,...
    Daniel 4:33
    Immediately the word was fulfilled against Nebu...
    Daniel 4:35
    All the inhabitants of the earth are accounted ...
  37. Cross References
    Isaiah 14:26
    This is the purpose that is purposed concerning the whole earth, and this is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations.
  38. Cross References
    2 Kings 16:20
    And Ahaz slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David, and Hezekiah his son reigned in his place.
  39. Cross References
    Isaiah 13:1
    The oracle concerning Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.
  40. Cross References
    Exodus 15:14
    The peoples have heard; they tremble; pangs have seized the inhabitants of Philistia.
    Psalms 60:8
    Moab is my washbasin; upon Edom I cast my shoe; over Philistia I shout in triumph.
    Psalms 87:4
    Among those who know me I mention Rahab and Babylon; behold, Philistia and Tyre, with Cush - "This one was born there," they say.
    Psalms 108:9
    Moab is my washbasin; upon Edom I cast my shoe; over Philistia I shout in triumph.
  41. Cross References
    Isaiah 10:24
    Therefore thus says the Lord God of hosts: "O my people, who dwell in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrians when they strike with the rod and lift up their staff against you as the Egyptians did.
  42. Cross References
    Isaiah 30:6
    An oracle on the beasts of the Negeb. Through a land of trouble and anguish, from where come the lioness and the lion, the adder and the flying fiery serpent, they carry their riches on the backs of donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people that cannot profit them.
    Numbers 21:6
    Then the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people, so that many people of Israel died.
    Jeremiah 46:22
    She makes a sound like a serpent gliding away; for her enemies march in force and come against her with axes like those who fell trees.
  43. Cross References
    Isaiah 29:19
    The meek shall obtain fresh joy in the Lord, and the poor among mankind shall exult in the Holy One of Israel.
    Zephaniah 3:12
    But I will leave in your midst a people humble and lowly. They shall seek refuge in the name of the Lord.
  44. Cross References
    Isaiah 29:19
    The meek shall obtain fresh joy in the Lord, and the poor among mankind shall exult in the Holy One of Israel.
    Zephaniah 3:12
    But I will leave in your midst a people humble and lowly. They shall seek refuge in the name of the Lord.
  45. Cross References
    Isaiah 13:6
    Wail, for the day of the Lord is near; as destruction from the Almighty it will come!
  46. Cross References
    Isaiah 24:12
    Desolation is left in the city; the gates are battered into ruins.
  47. Cross References
    Isaiah 14:29
    Rejoice not, O Philistia, all of you, that the rod that struck you is broken, for from the serpent's root will come forth an adder, and its fruit will be a flying fiery serpent.
  48. Cross References
    Isaiah 20:1
    In the year that the commander in chief, who was sent by Sargon the king of Assyria, came to Ashdod and fought against it and captured it -
  49. Cross References
    Psalms 87:1
    On the holy mount stands the city he founded.
    Psalms 87:5
    And of Zion it shall be said, "This one and that one were born in her"; for the Most High himself will establish her.
    Psalms 102:16
    For the Lord builds up Zion; he appears in his glory.
    Psalms 132:13
    For the Lord has chosen Zion; he has desired it for his dwelling place:
    Isaiah 28:16
    Therefore thus says the Lord God, "Behold, I am the one who has laid as a foundation in Zion, a stone, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, of a sure foundation: 'Whoever believes will not be in haste.
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