Isaiah 14:18

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

JPS TaNaKH 1917

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 as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?'

19But thou art cast forth away from thy grave like an abhorred offshoot, in the raiment of the slain, that are thrust through with the sword, that go down to the pavement of the pit, as a carcass trodden under foot.

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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 in Israel, and toward God and His house.

Job 3:14With kings and counsellors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;

Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul have not enough of good, and moreover he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he;

Isaiah 22:16What hast thou here, and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out here a sepulchre, thou that hewest thee out a sepulchre on high, and gravest a habitation for thyself in the 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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