Isaiah 14:18

All the kings of the nations—they all, are lying in state Each one in his crypt;

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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 desert? And its cities, brake down? Its prisoners, he loosed not, Each one to his home?

19But, thou, art flung out from thy grave, Like a scion detested, Beshrouded with slain, the pierced of the sword, Like a carcase trod underfoot:

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 24:16And they buried him in the city of David, with the kings,—because he had done good in Israel, both toward God and his house.

Job 3:14With kings, and counselors of the earth, who had built them pyramids:

Ecclesiastes 6:3Though a man should beget a hundred children, and live, many years, so that many should be the days of his years but, his own soul, should not be satisfied with the good, and he should not even have, a burial, I said, Better than he, is an untimely birth!

Isaiah 22:16What doest thou here? And whom hast thou here? That thou hast hewn for thyself here a sepulchre,—As one hewing on high his sepulchre, Cutting out in the cliff a habitation for himself?

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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