Thematic Bible
Isaiah 14:1 (show verse)
But the LORD will be merciful unto Jacob, and will take up Israel again, and set them in their own land. Strangers shall cleave unto them, and get them to the house of Jacob.
Isaiah 14:2 (show verse)
The people shall take them, and carry them home to their own land. And the house of Israel shall have them in possession for servants and maidens in the land of the LORD. They shall take those prisoners, whose captives they had been afore: and rule those that had oppressed them.
Isaiah 14:3 (show verse)
When the LORD now shall bring thee to rest; from the travail, fear, and hard bondage that thou wast laden withal.
Isaiah 14:4 (show verse)
Then shalt thou use this mockage upon the king of Babylon, and say: How happeneth that the oppressor leaveth off? Is the gold tribute come to an end?
Isaiah 14:5 (show verse)
Doubtless the LORD hath broken the staff of the ungodly, and the scepter of the lordly.
Isaiah 14:6 (show verse)
Which when he is wroth, smiteth the people with durable strokes, and in his wonders he persecuteth them, and tameth them continually.
Isaiah 14:7 (show verse)
And therefore the whole world is at rest and quietness, and men sing for joy.
Isaiah 14:8 (show verse)
Yea even the fir trees and Cedars of Lebanon rejoice at thy fall, saying, 'Now that thou art laid down, there come no more up to destroy us.'
Isaiah 14:9 (show verse)
Hell also trembleth at thy coming; all mighty men and princes of the earth step forth before thee. All kings of the earth stand up from their seats,
Isaiah 14:10 (show verse)
that they may all - one after another - sing and speak unto thee. Art thou wounded also as we? Art thou become like unto us?
Isaiah 14:11 (show verse)
Thy pomp and thy pride is gone down to hell: Moths shall be laid under thee, and worms shall be thy covering.
Isaiah 14:12 (show verse)
How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, thou fair morning child! How hast thou gotten a fall, even to the ground; thou that didst subdue the people?
Isaiah 14:13 (show verse)
For thou thoughtest in thine heart, "I will climb up into heaven, and make my seat above the stars of God; I will sit also upon the holy mount toward the North;
Isaiah 14:14 (show verse)
I will climb up above the clouds; and will be like the highest of all."
Isaiah 14:15 (show verse)
Yet dare I say, that thou shalt be brought down to the deep of hell.
Isaiah 14:16 (show verse)
They that seek thee, shall narrowly look upon thee, and think in themselves, saying, "Is this the man, that brought all lands in fear, and made the kingdoms afraid?
Isaiah 14:17 (show verse)
Is this he that made the world in a manner waste, and laid the cities to the ground, which let not his prisoners go home?"
Isaiah 14:18 (show verse)
The kings of the nations lie every one in his own house with worship,
Isaiah 14:19 (show verse)
and thou art cast out of thy grave like a wild branch - like as dead men's raiment that are shot through with the sword, as they that go down to the stones of the deep, as a dead corpse that is trodden under feet -
Isaiah 14:20 (show verse)
and art not buried with them. Even because that thou hast wasted thy land, and destroyed thy people. For the generation of the wicked shall be without honour, forever.
Isaiah 14:21 (show verse)
There shall a way be sought to destroy their children, for their fathers' wickedness: They shall not rise up again to possess the land, and fill the world full of castles and towns.
Isaiah 14:22 (show verse)
I will stand up against them, sayeth the LORD of Hosts, and root out the name and generation of Babylon, sayeth the LORD,
Isaiah 14:23 (show verse)
and will give it to the Otters, and will make water puddles of it. and I will sweep them out with the broom of destruction, sayeth the LORD of Hosts.
Isaiah 14:24 (show verse)
The LORD of Hosts hath sworn an oath, saying: It shall come to pass as I have determined, and shall be fulfilled as I have devised.
Isaiah 14:25 (show verse)
The Assyrians shall be destroyed in my land, and upon my mountains will I tread them under foot. Wherethrough his yoke shall come from you, and his burden shall be taken from your shoulders.
Isaiah 14:26 (show verse)
This device hath God taken through the whole world, and thus is his hand stretched out over all people.
Isaiah 14:27 (show verse)
For if the LORD of Hosts determine a thing, who will disannul it? And if he stretch forth his hand, who will hold it in again?
Isaiah 14:28 (show verse)
The same year that king Ahaz died, God threatened by Isaiah on this manner:
Isaiah 14:29 (show verse)
Rejoice not, thou whole Philistia, as though the rod of him that beateth thee were broken: For out of the serpent's root, there shall come an adder, and the fruit shall be a fiery worm.
Isaiah 14:30 (show verse)
But the poor shall feed of the best things, and the simple shall dwell in safety. Thy roots will I destroy with hunger, and it shall slay thy remnant.
Isaiah 14:31 (show verse)
Mourn, ye ports; weep, ye cities; and fear thou, O whole Philistia, for there shall come from the North a smoke, whose power no man may abide.
Isaiah 14:32 (show verse)
Who shall then maintain the messages of the Gentiles? But the LORD establisheth Zion, and the poor of my people shall put their trust in him.