Isaiah 14 — The Holy Bible

Isaiah 14, verse 1. For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob and will yet choose Israel to take rest in their land. The sojourner will be added to them, and they will be added to the house of Jacob. Isaiah 14, verse 2. Then the Gentiles will take them and bring them to their place. They will inherit them, and they will multiply in God's land as male and female servants. Those who captured them shall be captives to them, and those who ruled over them shall be ruled by them. Isaiah 14, verse 3. Then it shall come to pass in that day that God will give you rest from your sorrow and anger and your hard slavery in which you served them. Isaiah 14, verse 4. You shall take up this lamentation against the king of Babylon, and will say in that day, “How the exacter has ceased, and the compeller ceased! Isaiah 14, verse 5. God broke the yoke of sinners in pieces, the yoke of the rulers, and Isaiah 14, verse 6. in His anger He struck a nation with an incurable wound; and striking a nation with a plague of anger, which did not spare them, Isaiah 14, verse 7. He rested in confidence. All the earth cries aloud with gladness. Isaiah 14, verse 8. Indeed, the trees of Lebanon rejoice against you and the cedar of Lebanon, saying, ‘From the time you fell asleep, no one has come up to cut us down.’ Isaiah 14, verse 9. Hades from below was embittered to meet you. All the mighty who ruled over the earth rose up to meet you. Those who raised from their thrones all the kings of the nations, Isaiah 14, verse 10. all shall answer and say to you, ‘You also were conquered, even as we, and are numbered among us. Isaiah 14, verse 11. Your glory and great gladness have come down to Hades. They will spread decay under you, and the worm will be your covering.’ Isaiah 14, verse 12. How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, who rose up in the morning! He who sends for all the nations is crushed to the earth. Isaiah 14, verse 13. For you said in your mind, ‘I will ascend into heaven; I will place my throne above the stars of heaven. I will sit on a lofty mountain, on the lofty mountains toward the north. Isaiah 14, verse 14. I will ascend above the clouds; I will be like the Most High.’ Isaiah 14, verse 15. But now you shall descend to Hades, to the foundations of the earth. Isaiah 14, verse 16. Those who see you will marvel at you, and they will say, ‘This is the man who greatly upset the earth, who shook kingdoms, Isaiah 14, verse 17. and who made all the inhabited world a desert. He destroyed its cities, and did not set free those in captivity.’ Isaiah 14, verse 18. All the kings of the nations sleep in honor, every man in his house. Isaiah 14, verse 19. But you shall be cast forth on the mountains like a loathsome dead person, with many dead pierced with swords who go down into Hades; and as a garment defiled in blood, you will not be clean. Isaiah 14, verse 20. So you will not be clean, because you destroyed My land and killed My people. You, an evil seed, will not endure forever. Isaiah 14, verse 21. Prepare your children for slaughter for the sins of their father, that they may not arise and inherit the earth, and fill it with wars.” Isaiah 14, verse 22. “For I will rise up against them,” says the Lord of hosts, “and I will destroy their name, their remnant and their seed”—so says the Lord— Isaiah 14, verse 23. “and I will make Babylon a desert, that hedgehogs may dwell there; and it shall come to nothing; and I will make it a pit of clay for destruction.” Isaiah 14, verse 24. Thus says the Lord of hosts: “As I said, so it shall come to pass. As I purposed, so it shall remain— Isaiah 14, verse 25. to destroy the Assyrians in My land and on My mountains. They shall be for trampling underfoot, and their yoke shall be taken away; and their renown shall be removed from their shoulders.” Isaiah 14, verse 26. This is the purpose the Lord purposed upon all the inhabited world. His hand is lifted up over all the nations of the inhabited earth. Isaiah 14, verse 27. For who will reject what the holy God purposed? Who will turn away His uplifted hand? Isaiah 14, verse 28. In the year King Ahaz died, this word came: Isaiah 14, verse 29. “Do not be glad, all you foreigners, for the yoke of him who struck you is broken to pieces. For from the seed of serpents shall come forth the young asps, and their offspring shall be flying serpents. Isaiah 14, verse 30. The poor will be fed by him, and poor men will rest in peace, but he shall destroy your seed with hunger, and he will destroy your remnant. Isaiah 14, verse 31. Wail, gates of the cities, cry out, troubled cities, even all the foreigners, for smoke is coming from the north, and you will be no more!” Isaiah 14, verse 32. What will the kings of the nations answer? For the Lord founded Zion, and the humble of His people shall be saved.