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Isaiah 14:4

Babylon

2 The nations will escort Israel and bring it to its homeland. Then the house of Israel will possess the nations as menservants and maidservants in the LORD’s land. They will make captives of their captors and rule over their oppressors.

3 On the day that the LORD gives you rest from your pain and torment, and from the hard labor into which you were forced,

you will sing this song of contempt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has ceased, and how his fury has ended!

5 The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers.

6 It struck the peoples in anger with unceasing blows; it subdued the nations in rage with relentless persecution.

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
you will sing this song of contempt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has ceased, and how his fury has ended!
KJV
That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!
WEB
that you will take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, “How the oppressor has ceased! The golden city has ceased!”
ASV
that thou shalt take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!
DARBY
that thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased, the exactress of gold ceased!
BLB
that you will take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and you will say: “How the oppressor has ceased! The boisterous rage has ceased!
ÅB
da skal du istemme denne spottesang over Babels konge og si: Se, hva ende det har tatt med voldsherren, med trengselsstedet!
OTB
vil du si dette ordtaket mot kongen av Babylon: "Hvordan har undertrykkeren opphørt, hvordan har hans raseri endt!"
B1930
da skal du istemme denne spottesang over Babels konge og si: Se, hvad ende det har tatt med voldsherren, med trengselsstedet!

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Isaiah 49:26

    I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh; they will be drunk on their own blood, as with wine. Then all mankind will know that I, the LORD, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”

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  • Jeremiah 50:22–23

    “The noise of battle is in the land— the noise of great destruction.

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  • Revelation 18:16

    saying: “Woe, woe to the great city, clothed in fine linen and purple and scarlet, adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls!

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  • Revelation 18:5–8

    For her sins are piled up to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.

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  • Revelation 16:5–6

    And I heard the angel of the waters say: “Righteous are You, O Holy One, who is and was, because You have brought these judgments.

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  • Daniel 7:19–25

    Then I wanted to know the true meaning of the fourth beast, which was different from all the others—extremely terrifying—devouring and crushing with iron teeth and bronze claws, then trampling underfoot whatever was left.

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  • Isaiah 51:23

    I will place it in the hands of your tormentors, who told you: ‘Lie down, so we can walk over you,’ so that you made your back like the ground, like a street to be traversed.”

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  • 2 Chronicles 36:18

    who carried off everything to Babylon—all the articles of the house of God, both large and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD and of the king and his officials.

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