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    Isaiah 14

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    A dead court rises to greet Babylon’s fallen king, only to discover that royal bedding has become maggots and worms, while the trees of Lebanon cheer the sudden absence of woodcutters.

    Rest for Jacob, and a song for Babylonvv. 1–8

    The LORD chooses Israel again and settles it in its own land, with foreigners joining the house of Jacob and nations escorting Israel home. Captivity changes hands, and rest arrives after pain, torment, and forced labor. Then comes the song against the king of Babylon: the oppressor has ceased, the staff is broken, and even Lebanon’s cedars and cypresses are delighted to see the woodcutters kept away.

    The welcome belowvv. 9–23

    Sheol prepares a formal reception, stirring the dead rulers and lifting the kings of the nations from their thrones. Their greeting is less ceremony than mockery: the mighty one has become weak like the rest. His pomp, harps, and grand ambition descend to the lowest Pit, and the spectators ask whether this discarded body can really be the man who shook the earth. Other kings lie in their tombs; this one is thrown out like a rejected branch. Babylon’s name, remnant, offspring, and posterity are all marked for cutting off, with owls, swampland, and the broom of destruction waiting in the wings.

    The hand that reaches everywherevv. 24–32

    The LORD’s purpose turns from Babylon to Assyria, whose yoke is to be removed from the people. The plan is described as reaching over the whole earth, and no one is offered as a likely interrupter. In the year Ahaz died, the burden turns towards Philistia: a broken rod is no excuse for rejoicing, since a viper and then a flying serpent are on the way. There is pasture for the poor and safety for the needy, but famine for Philistia’s root. The final answer sent to the envoys is brief: Zion has been founded as refuge for the afflicted.

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    1. Isa 14:1For the LORD will have compassion on Jacob; once again He will choose Israel and settle them in their own land. The foreigner will join them and unite with the house of Jacob.

    2. Isa 14:2The nations will escort Israel and bring it to its homeland. Then the house of Israel will possess the nations as menservants and maidservants in the LORD’s land. They will make captives of their captors and rule over their oppressors.

    3. Isa 14:3On the day that the LORD gives you rest from your pain and torment, and from the hard labor into which you were forced,

    4. Isa 14:4you will sing this song of contempt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has ceased, and how his fury has ended!

    5. Isa 14:5The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers.

    6. Isa 14:6It struck the peoples in anger with unceasing blows; it subdued the nations in rage with relentless persecution.

    7. Isa 14:7All the earth is at peace and at rest; they break out in song.

    8. Isa 14:8Even the cypresses and cedars of Lebanon exult over you: “Since you have been laid low, no woodcutter comes against us.”

    9. Isa 14:9Sheol beneath is eager to meet you upon your arrival. It stirs the spirits of the dead to greet you—all the rulers of the earth. It makes all the kings of the nations rise from their thrones.

    10. Isa 14:10They will all respond to you, saying, “You too have become weak, as we are; you have become like us!”

    11. Isa 14:11Your pomp has been brought down to Sheol, along with the music of your harps. Maggots are your bed and worms your blanket.

    12. Isa 14:12How you have fallen from heaven, O day star, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, O destroyer of nations.

    13. Isa 14:13You said in your heart: “I will ascend to the heavens; I will raise my throne above the stars of God. I will sit on the mount of assembly, in the far reaches of the north.

    14. Isa 14:14I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.”

    15. Isa 14:15But you will be brought down to Sheol, to the lowest depths of the Pit.

    16. Isa 14:16Those who see you will stare; they will ponder your fate: “Is this the man who shook the earth and made the kingdoms tremble,

    17. Isa 14:17who turned the world into a desert and destroyed its cities, who refused to let the captives return to their homes?”

    18. Isa 14:18All the kings of the nations lie in state, each in his own tomb.

    19. Isa 14:19But you are cast out of your grave like a rejected branch, covered by those slain with the sword, and dumped into a rocky pit like a carcass trampled underfoot.

    20. Isa 14:20You will not join them in burial, since you have destroyed your land and slaughtered your own people. The offspring of the wicked will never again be mentioned.

    21. Isa 14:21Prepare a place to slaughter his sons for the iniquities of their forefathers. They will never rise up to possess a land or cover the earth with their cities.

    22. Isa 14:22“I will rise up against them,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will cut off from Babylon her name and her remnant, her offspring and her posterity,” declares the LORD.

    23. Isa 14:23“I will make her a place for owls and for swamplands; I will sweep her away with the broom of destruction,” declares the LORD of Hosts.

    24. Isa 14:24The LORD of Hosts has sworn: “Surely, as I have planned, so will it be; as I have purposed, so will it stand.

    25. Isa 14:25I will break Assyria in My land; I will trample him on My mountain. His yoke will be taken off My people, and his burden removed from their shoulders.”

    26. Isa 14:26This is the plan devised for the whole earth, and this is the hand stretched out over all the nations.

    27. Isa 14:27The LORD of Hosts has purposed, and who can thwart Him? His hand is outstretched, so who can turn it back?

    28. Isa 14:28In the year that King Ahaz died, this burden was received:

    29. Isa 14:29Do not rejoice, all you Philistines, that the rod that struck you is broken. For a viper will spring from the root of the snake, and a flying serpent from its egg.

    30. Isa 14:30Then the firstborn of the poor will find pasture, and the needy will lie down in safety, but I will kill your root by famine, and your remnant will be slain.

    31. Isa 14:31Wail, O gate! Cry out, O city! Melt away, all you Philistines! For a cloud of smoke comes from the north, and there are no stragglers in its ranks.

    32. Isa 14:32What answer will be given to the envoys of that nation? “The LORD has founded Zion, where His afflicted people will find refuge.”

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    • 12Ezekiel 28:13–17You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every kind of precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and emerald. Your mountings and settings were crafted in gold, prepared on the day of your creation.
    • 27Isaiah 43:13Even from eternity I am He, and none can deliver out of My hand. When I act, who can reverse it?”
    • 27Job 23:13But He is unchangeable, and who can oppose Him? He does what He desires.
    • 24Proverbs 19:21Many plans are in a man’s heart, but the purpose of the LORD will prevail.
    • 24Isaiah 46:10–11I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and all My good pleasure I will accomplish.’
    • 272 Chronicles 20:6and said, “O LORD, God of our fathers, are You not the God who is in heaven, and do You not rule over all the kingdoms of the nations? Power and might are in Your hand, and no one can stand against You.
    • 12Luke 10:18So He told them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.
    • 27Proverbs 21:30There is no wisdom, no understanding, no counsel that can prevail against the LORD.
    • 12Revelation 12:7–10Then a war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back.
    • 27Job 9:12If He takes away, who can stop Him? Who dares to ask Him, ‘What are You doing?’
    • 24Jeremiah 29:11For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future and a hope.
    • 24Acts 4:28They carried out what Your hand and will had decided beforehand would happen.
    • 27Romans 8:28And we know that God works all things together for the good of those who love Him, who are called according to His purpose.
    • 24Ephesians 1:9And He has made known to us the mystery of His will according to His good pleasure, which He purposed in Christ
    • 27Psalms 33:11The counsel of the LORD stands forever, the purposes of His heart to all generations.
    • 24Matthew 11:25At that time Jesus declared, “I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children.

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