Isaiah 14:4

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!

Proverb

Jeremiah 24:9

Ezekiel 5:15

Habakkuk 2:6

Golden city

General references

Numbers 21:27

Jeremiah 49:25

Jeremiah 50:23

Bible References

Proverb

And will make them to be a reproof, a common byword, a laughingstock and shame, in all the places where I shall scatter them.

so that when I punish thee in my wrath, in mine anger, and with the plague of my hot displeasure, thou shalt be a very abomination, shame, a gasping and wondering stock among the Heathen that lie about thee. Even I, the LORD, have spoken it: and it shall come to pass.

But shall not all these take up a proverb against him, and mock him with a byword, and say, "Woe unto him that heapeth up other men's goods: How long will he lade himself with thick clay?"

Golden city

And Babylon, that glory of kingdoms and beauty of the Chaldeans' honor, shall be destroyed, even as God destroyed Sodom and Gomorra.

I will go before thee, and make the crooked straight. I shall break the brazen doors, and burst the iron bars.

And all the vessels of the house of God both great and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of the king and his lords he carried to Babylon, every whit.

{Aleph} O how is the gold become so dim? How is the goodly colour of it so sore changed? And the stones of the sanctuary thus scattered in the corner of every street?

And hath delivered thee all things that are among the children of men: the beasts of the field, and the fowls under the heaven, and given thee dominion over them all. Thou art that golden head.

and saying, 'Alas alas, that great city, that was clothed in raynes, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stone, and pearls:

General references

Wherefore they that speak in proverbs say: "Go to Heshbon and let the city of Sihon be built and made ready!

But how should so worshipful and glorious a city be forsaken?

How happeneth it that the hammer of the whole world is thus broken and bruised in sunder? How chanceth it that Babylon is become a wilderness among the Heathen on this manner?