Isaiah 14:7

The whole earth is at rest, [and] is quiet. They break forth into singing.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing.

In Context

6who smote the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, who ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that none restrained.

8Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, [and] the cedars of Lebanon, [saying], Since thou are laid low, no hewer has come up against us.

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Cross References

Psalms 98:1O sing to LORD a new song, for he has done marvelous things. His right hand, and his holy arm, has wrought salvation for him.

Psalms 126:1When LORD brought back those who returned to Zion, we were like those who dream.

Isaiah 21:2A grievous vision is declared to me. The treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, O Elam. Besiege, O Media, all the sighing of it I have made to cease.

Jeremiah 51:48Then the heavens and the earth, and all that is therein, shall sing for joy over Babylon. For the destroyers shall come to her from the north, says LORD.

Revelation 18:20Be glad over her, thou heaven, and the sanctified, and the apostles, and the prophets, because God has decreed your judgment of her.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 14:5-24

The Doom of the King of Babylon. ( b. c. 739.) 4 That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased! 5 The Lord hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers. 6 He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth. 7 The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing. 8 Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of… Read the whole commentary →

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