Isaiah 14:27
For what the Holy God has purposed, who shall frustrate? and who shall turn back his uplifted hand?
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
28In the year in which King Ahaz died this word came.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 20:6And he said, O Lord God of my fathers, art not thou God in heaven above, and art not thou Lord of all the kingdoms of the nations? and is there not in thy hand the might of dominion, and there is no one who can resist thee?
Job 11:10And if he should overthrow all things, who will say to him, What hast thou done? 1
Job 40:8Do not set aside my judgment: 1 And dost thou think that I have dealt with thee in any other way, than that thou mightest appear to be righteous? 1
Psalms 33:11The rich have become poor and hungry: 1 But they that seek the Lord diligently shall not want any good thing. Pause. 1
Proverbs 21:30There is no wisdom, there is no courage, 1 There is no counsel against the ungodly. 1
Isaiah 9:12But the people turned not until they were smitten, and they sought not the Lord.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 14:25-32
The Doom of the Assyrians; The Doom of the Philistines. ( b. c. 726.) 24 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: 25 That I will break the Assyrian 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. 26 This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations. 27 For… Read the whole commentary →