Isaiah 14:18

All the kings of the nations have all of them slept in glory, every one in his own house.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house.

In Context

17That made the world a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof, that opened not the prison to his prisoners?

19But thou art cast out of thy grave, as an unprofitable branch defiled, and wrapped up among them that were slain by the sword, and art gone down to the bottom of the pit, as a rotten carcass.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 24:16And they buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good to Israel, and to his house.

Job 3:14With kings and consuls of the earth, who build themselves solitudes:

Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, and attain to a great age, and his soul make no use of the goods of his substance, and he be without burial: of this man I pronounce, that the untimely born is better than he.

Isaiah 22:16What dost thou here, or as if thou wert somebody here? for thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, thou hast hewed out a monument carefully in a high place, a dwelling for thyself in a rock.

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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