Thematic Bible
Isaiah 14:1 (show verse)
Jehovah will have compassion on Jacob and again choose Israel. He will resettle them in their own country. Foreigners will join them and unite with the descendants of Jacob.
Isaiah 14:2 (show verse)
People will take them and bring them to their own place. The nation of Israel will possess nations as male and female slaves in Jehovah's land. They will take their captors captive and rule their oppressors.
Isaiah 14:3 (show verse)
When that day comes, Jehovah will give you relief from your pain and suffering, from the hard slavery you were forced to do.
Isaiah 14:4 (show verse)
You will mock the king of Babylon with this saying: How the tyrant has come to an end! How his attacks have come to an end!
Isaiah 14:5 (show verse)
Jehovah has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of rulers.
Isaiah 14:6 (show verse)
They struck the people with fury, with blows that did not stop. They ruled nations in anger, persecuting them without restraint.
Isaiah 14:7 (show verse)
The whole earth rests and is quiet. It breaks out into shouts of joy.
Isaiah 14:8 (show verse)
Even the cypress trees rejoice over you. The cedars of Lebanon say: 'Since you have fallen, no lumberjack has come to attack us.'
Isaiah 14:9 (show verse)
The grave below wakes up to meet you when you come. It wakes up those who are dead, all who were leaders on earth. It raises all who were kings of the nations from their thrones.
Isaiah 14:10 (show verse)
All of them will greet you: 'You also have become weak like us! You have become like one of us!
Isaiah 14:11 (show verse)
Your pride has been brought down to the grave along with the music of your harps. Maggots are spread out like a bed under you, and worms cover you.'
Isaiah 14:12 (show verse)
O how you have fallen from heaven, you morning star (shining one), and son of the dawn! How you have been cut down to the ground, you who conquered nations!
Isaiah 14:13 (show verse)
You thought: 'I will go up to heaven (Mount Zion) and set up my throne above God's stars (messengers). I will sit on the mountain of meeting far away in the north where the gods assemble.
Isaiah 14:14 (show verse)
I will go above the top of the clouds. I will be like the Most High.'
Isaiah 14:15 (show verse)
But you have been brought down to the grave, to the deepest part of the pit.
Isaiah 14:16 (show verse)
Those who see you stare at you. They look at you closely and say: 'Is this the man who made the earth tremble, who shook the kingdoms,
Isaiah 14:17 (show verse)
who made the world like a desert and tore down its cities and did not let his prisoners go home?'
Isaiah 14:18 (show verse)
All the kings of the nations, all of them, have been buried with honor, each in his own tomb.
Isaiah 14:19 (show verse)
However you are thrown out of your tomb like a rejected branch. You are covered with those who were killed in battle. You go down to the stones (bottom) of the pit like a trampled corpse.
Isaiah 14:20 (show verse)
You ruined your country and killed your own people. For that reason, you will not be buried like other kings. None of your evil family will survive.
Isaiah 14:21 (show verse)
Prepare a slaughtering place! The sons of this king will die because of their ancestors' sins. None of them will ever rule the earth or cover it with cities.
Isaiah 14:22 (show verse)
Jehovah of Hosts declares: I will attack Babylon and bring it to ruin. I will leave nothing! There will be no children, no survivors at all. I, Jehovah, have spoken.
Isaiah 14:23 (show verse)
I will turn Babylon into a marsh. Porcupines will live there. I will sweep Babylon with a broom that will sweep everything away. I, the Sovereign Lord Jehovah have spoken.
Isaiah 14:24 (show verse)
Jehovah of Hosts has sworn an oath: What I have intended (devised) will happen. What I have determined to do will be done.
Isaiah 14:25 (show verse)
In my land of Israel I will trample them on my mountains. I will free my people from the Assyrian yoke and from the burdens they have had to bear.
Isaiah 14:26 (show verse)
This is my purpose (plan) (advise) for the world, and my arm (extended power) is stretched out to punish the nations.
Isaiah 14:27 (show verse)
Jehovah of Hosts is determined to do this. He has stretched out his arm to punish, and no one can stop him.
Isaiah 14:28 (show verse)
This message was proclaimed in the year that King Ahaz died:
Isaiah 14:29 (show verse)
The rod that beat you is broken, but you have no reason to be glad. When one snake dies, a worse one comes in its place. A snake's egg hatches a flying dragon.
Isaiah 14:30 (show verse)
Jehovah will be a shepherd to the poor of his people and will let them live in safety. But he will send a terrible famine on you Philistines. It will not leave any of you alive.
Isaiah 14:31 (show verse)
Howl and cry for help, all you Philistine cities! Be terrified, all of you! A cloud of dust is coming from the north. It is an army with no cowards in its ranks.
Isaiah 14:32 (show verse)
What then will one answer the messengers that come to us from Philistia? We will tell them that Jehovah has established Zion and in her the poor and afflicted of his people find refuge.