Isaiah 14:4

you will sing this taunt song against the king of Babylon, 1 “How the oppressor has come to an end, the proud fury ended! + 14:4 Instead of the proud fury ended , some versions have the golden city ended , the turmoil ended , the hostility ended , or the arrogance ended . 1

Unlocked Literal 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

3On the day that Yahweh gives you rest from your suffering and anguish, and from the hard labor which you were required to perform,

5Yahweh has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of those rulers, 1

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Cross References

Isaiah 9:4For the yoke of his burden, the beam across his shoulder, 1 the rod of his oppressor, you have shattered as on the day of Midian. 1

Isaiah 14:6that struck the peoples in wrath with unceasing blows, 1 that ruled the nations in anger, with an attack that was unrestrained. 1

Isaiah 21:2A distressing vision has been given to me: 1 the treacherous man deals treacherously, and the destroyer destroys. 1 Go up and attack, Elam; besiege, Media; 1 I will stop all her groaning. 1

Isaiah 47:5Sit in silence and go into darkness, daughter of the Chaldeans; 1 for you will no longer be called queen of kingdoms. 1

Isaiah 51:23I will put it into the hand of your tormentors, those who have said to you, 'Lie down, that we may walk over you'; 1 you made your back like the ground and like the street for them to walk on.”

Jeremiah 25:9see, I am about to send out a command to gather all the peoples of the north—this is Yahweh's declaration—with Nebuchadnezzar my servant, king of Babylon, and bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all the nations around you. For I will set them apart for destruction. I will turn them into a horror, an object for hissing, and an unending desolation.

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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