Isaiah 43:14

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Thus saith the LORD, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and have brought down all their nobles, and the Chaldeans, whose cry is in the ships.

For

Nobles

Isaiah 45:2

Whose cry

Ezekiel 27:29

Revelation 18:11

Bible References

For

For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your deliverer. I have handed over Egypt as a ransom price, Ethiopia and Seba in place of you.

This is what the Lord, your protector, says, the one who formed you in the womb: "I am the Lord, who made everything, who alone stretched out the sky, who fashioned the earth all by myself,

This is what the Lord says to his chosen one, to Cyrus, whose right hand I hold in order to subdue nations before him, and disarm kings, to open doors before him, so gates remain unclosed:

"Announce the news among the nations! Proclaim it! Signal for people to pay attention! Declare the news! Do not hide it! Say: 'Babylon will be captured. Bel will be put to shame. Marduk will be dismayed. Babylon's idols will be put to shame. Her disgusting images will be dismayed.

The Lord says, "I will cause a destructive wind to blow against Babylon and the people who inhabit Babylonia.

(Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you saints and apostles and prophets, for God has pronounced judgment against her on your behalf!)

Nobles

"I will go before you and level mountains. Bronze doors I will shatter and iron bars I will hack through.

Whose cry

They will descend from their ships -- all who handle the oar, the sailors and all the sea captains -- they will stand on the land.

Then the merchants of the earth will weep and mourn for her because no one buys their cargo any longer --