Book of Isaiah, Chapter 14
Chapter 14 of Isaiah
¶ “How the oppressor has ceased,
the insolent fury[a] ceased!
the scepter of rulers,
with unceasing blows,
that ruled the nations in anger
with unrelenting persecution.
they break forth into singing.
the cedars of Lebanon, saying,
‘Since you were laid low,
no hewer comes up against us.’
to meet you when you come,
it rouses the shades to greet you,
all who were leaders of the earth;
it raises from their thrones
all who were kings of the nations.
and say to you:
‘You too have become as weak as we!
You have become like us!’
the sound of your harps;
maggots are the bed beneath you,
and worms are your covering.
O Day Star, son of Dawn!
How you are cut down to the ground,
you who laid the nations low!
‘I will ascend to heaven;
above the stars of God
I will set my throne on high;
I will sit on the mount of assembly
in the far north;
I will make myself like the Most High.’
to the depths of the Pit.
and ponder over you:
‘Is this the man who made the earth tremble,
who shook kingdoms,
and overthrew its cities,
who did not let his prisoners go home?’
each in his own tomb;
like a loathed untimely birth,[b]
clothed with the slain, those pierced by the sword,
who go down to the stones of the Pit,
like a dead body trodden under foot.
because you have destroyed your land,
you have slain your people.
¶ “May the descendants of evildoers
nevermore be named!
because of the guilt of their fathers,
lest they rise and possess the earth,
and fill the face of the world with cities.”
“As I have planned,
so shall it be,
and as I have purposed,
so shall it stand,
and upon my mountains trample him under foot;
and his yoke shall depart from them,
and his burden from their shoulder.”
concerning the whole earth;
and this is the hand that is stretched out
over all the nations.
and who will annul it?
His hand is stretched out,
and who will turn it back?
that the rod which smote you is broken,
for from the serpent’s root will come forth an adder,
and its fruit will be a flying serpent.
and the needy lie down in safety;
but I will kill your root with famine,
and your remnant I[c] will slay.
melt in fear, O Philistia, all of you!
For smoke comes out of the north,
and there is no straggler in his ranks.”
“The LORD has founded Zion,
and in her the afflicted of his people find refuge.”FOOTNOTES
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