Isaiah 14:18

All the kings of the nations sleep in glory, everyone in his own house.

World English Bible Classic

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

17who made the world like a wilderness, and overthrew its cities, who didn’t release his prisoners to their home?”

19But you are cast away from your tomb like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain who are thrust through with the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit; like a dead body trodden under foot.

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 24:16They buried him in David’s city among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, and toward God and his house.

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

Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man fathers a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better than he;

Isaiah 22:16‘What are you doing here? Who has you here, that you have dug out a tomb here?’ Cutting himself out a tomb on high, chiseling a habitation for himself 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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