Isaiah 14:4

That thou shalt take up this mashal against Melech Bavel, and say: 1 How hath the nogesh (oppressor) ceased! 1 How hast fury ceased! 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!

In Context

3And it shall come to pass in the day that Hashem shall give thee rest from thy etzev (sorrow), and from thy rogez (turmoil), and from the avodah hakashah (hard bondage) wherein thou wast made to serve,

5Hashem hath broken the matteh (rod) of the resha'im (wicked), 1 and the shevet (sceptre) of the moshlim (rulers). 1

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Cross References

Isaiah 9:4For every boot of the tramping warrior in the battleʼs tumult, 1 and simlah (garments) megolalah (rolled) in damim (blood) 1 shall be for burning and 1 ma'acholet eish (food for fire). 1

Isaiah 14:6Which struck the peoples in wrath 1 with makkat bilti sarah (a continual stroke), 1 which ruled the Goyim in anger, 1 with unrestrained aggression. 1

Isaiah 21:2A chazut kashah (harsh vision) is declared unto me; 1 the boged (traitor) dealeth treacherously, and the shoded (destroyer) destroyeth. 1 Go up, O Eilam; besiege, O Media; 1 all the groaning she + 21:2 Babylon caused have I made to cease. 1

Isaiah 47:5Sit thou silent, and get thee into choshech, 1 O Bat Kasdim (Chaldeans); 1 for thou shalt no more be called, 1 Geveret Mamlachot (The Lady of Kingdoms). 1

Isaiah 51:23But I will put it into the yad of them that torment thee; 1 which have said to thy nefesh, 1 Bow down, that we may walk over; 1 and thou hast laid thy gev (back) like the ground 1 and like the street, to them that walked over.

Jeremiah 25:9Hinei, I will send and take all the mishpekhot of the tzafon (north), saith Hashem, and Avdi Nevukhadretzar Melech Bavel, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these Goyim all around, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 14:2-4

Promises to Israel. ( b. c. 739.) 1 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. 2 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. 3 And it shall come to pass in… Read the whole commentary →

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