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 Savior;
I have given Egypt as your ransom,

Cush and Seba in your place.

Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, and the one who formed you from the womb,
“I, the Lord, am the maker of all things,

Stretching out the heavens by Myself

And spreading out the earth all alone,

Thus says the Lord to Cyrus His anointed,
Whom I have taken by the right hand,
To subdue nations before him
And to loose the loins of kings;
To open doors before him so that gates will not be shut:

“Declare and proclaim among the nations.
Proclaim it and lift up a standard.
Do not conceal it but say,
‘Babylon has been captured,

Bel has been put to shame, Marduk has been shattered;

Her images have been put to shame, her idols have been shattered.’

Thus says the Lord:
“Behold, I am going to arouse against Babylon
And against the inhabitants of Leb-kamai

The spirit of a destroyer.

Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you saints and apostles and prophets, because God has pronounced judgment for you against her.”

Nobles

“I will go before you and make the rough places smooth;
I will shatter the doors of bronze and cut through their iron bars.

Whose cry

“All who handle the oar,
The sailors and all the pilots of the sea
Will come down from their ships;
They will stand on the land,

“And the merchants of the earth weep and mourn over her, because no one buys their cargoes any more—