Isaiah 14:4
that you will take up this parable against the king of Babylon [Confusion], and say, “How the oppressor has ceased! The golden city has ceased!”
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5Adonai has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers,
Cross References
Isaiah 9:4For the yoke of his burden, and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, you have broken as in the day of Midian [Strife].
Isaiah 14:6who struck the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, who ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that no one restrained.
Isaiah 21:2A grievous vision is declared to me. The treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, Elam; attack! I have stopped all of Media [Middle-land]’s sighing.
Isaiah 47:5“Sit in silence, and go into darkness, 2 daughter of the Chaldeans [Descendants of Loving-kindness]. 1 For you shall no longer be called 2 the mistress of kingdoms. 1
Isaiah 51:23and I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you, 2 who have said to your soul, ‘Bow down, that we may walk over you;’ 2 and you have laid your back as the ground, 2 like a street to those who walk over.”
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 →