Isaiah 14
The Proverb against
the King of Babylon |
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For the LORD will
have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in
their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and
they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.
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And the people shall take them, and bring
them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in
the land of the LORD for servants and
handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they
were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.
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And it shall come to pass in the day
that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy
sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou
wast made to serve,
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that thou shalt take up this proverb
against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased!
the golden city ceased!
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The LORD hath broken
the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the
rulers.
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He who smote the people in wrath with a
continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth.
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The whole earth is at rest, and is
quiet: they break forth into singing.
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Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since thou art laid
down, no feller is come up against us.
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Hell from beneath is moved for thee to
meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from
their thrones all the kings of the nations.
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All they shall speak and say unto thee,
Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto
us?
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Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee,
and the worms cover thee.
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How art thou fallen from heaven, Rev.
8.10 O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou
cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
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For thou hast said in thine heart, I will
ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I
will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of
the north:
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I will ascend above the heights of the
clouds; I will be like the Most High.
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Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, Mt.
11.23 · 0.1 ; 0.10 ; 5.1--0.1 to the
sides of the pit.
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They that see thee shall narrowly look
upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man
that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;
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that made the world as a
wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not
the house of his prisoners?
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All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house.
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But thou art cast out of thy grave like
an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are
slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of
the pit; as a carcass trodden under feet.
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Thou shalt not be joined with them in
burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy
people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned.
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Prepare slaughter for his children for
the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess
the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.
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For I will rise up against them, saith
the LORD of hosts, and cut off from Babylon the
name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith the LORD.
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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 LORD of hosts.
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Assyria to Be
Destroyed |
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The LORD 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:
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that I will break the Assyrian Is.
10.5-34 · Nah.
1.1--3.19 · 2.13-15 in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then
shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off
their shoulders.
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This is the purpose that is
purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is
stretched out upon all the nations.
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For the LORD of
hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?
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The Oracle concerning
Philistia |
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In the year that king Ahaz died 2 Kgs.
16.20 · 2
Chr. 28.27 was this burden.
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Rejoice not thou, whole Palesti'na, Jer.
47.1-7 · Ezek. 25.15-17 · Joel 3.4-8 · Amos 1.6-8 · 2.4-7 · Zech. 9.5-7 because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of
the serpent's root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.
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And the firstborn of the poor shall feed,
and the needy shall lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root
with famine, and he shall slay thy remnant.
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Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole
Palesti'na, art dissolved: for there shall come from the
north a smoke, and none shall be alone in his appointed
times.
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What shall one then answer the
messengers of the nation? That the LORD hath
founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in
it.
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