Isaiah 14:3-23 - The Downfall Of The King Of Babylon
3 When the Lord gives you rest from your pain,
and how the raging
the scepter of the rulers.
with unceasing blows.
It subdued the nations in rage
with relentless persecution.
people shout with a ringing cry.
rejoice over you:
“Since you have been laid low,
no woodcutter has come against us.”
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He stirs up the spirits of the departed for you—
all the rulers
He makes all the kings of the nations
rise from their thrones.
“You too have become as weak as we are;
you have become like us!
along with the music of your harps.
Maggots are spread out under you,
and worms cover you.”
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how you have fallen from the heavens!
You destroyer of nations,
you have been cut down to the ground.
“I will ascend to the heavens;
I will set up my throne
above the stars of God.
I will sit on the mount of the gods’ assembly,
in the remotest parts of the North.
I will make myself like the Most High.”
into the deepest regions of the Pit.
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they will look closely at you:
“Is this the man who caused the earth to tremble,
who shook the kingdoms,
who destroyed its cities
and would not release the prisoners to return home?”
lie in splendor, each in his own tomb.
like a worthless branch,
covered by those slain with the sword
and dumped into a rocky pit like a trampled corpse.
because you destroyed your land
and slaughtered your own people.
The offspring of evildoers
will never be remembered.
because of the iniquity
They will never rise up to possess a land
or fill the surface of the earth with cities.
22 “I will rise up against them”—this is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts—“and I will cut off from Babylon her reputation, remnant, offspring, and posterity”—this is the Lord’s declaration. 23 “I will make her a swampland and a region for screech owls,
This is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts.