Isaiah 14:5
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,
4 you will sing this song of contempt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has ceased, and how his fury has ended!
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.
7 All the earth is at peace and at rest; they break out in song.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers.
- KJV
- The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers.
- WEB
- The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers,
- ASV
- Jehovah hath broken the staff of the wicked, the sceptre of the rulers;
- DARBY
- Jehovah hath broken the staff of the wicked, the sceptre of the rulers.
- BLB
- YHWH has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers—
- ÅB
- Herren har brutt i stykker de ugudeliges stav, herskernes spir,
- OTB
- Herren har knust de ondes stav, herskernes septer,
- B1930
- Herren har brutt i stykker de ugudeliges stav, herskernes spir,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 125:3
For the scepter of the wicked will not rest upon the land allotted to the righteous, so that the righteous will not put forth their hands to injustice.
Read in contextIsaiah 9:4
For as in the day of Midian You have shattered the yoke of their burden, the bar across their shoulders, and the rod of their oppressor.
Read in contextIsaiah 14:29
Do not rejoice, all you Philistines, that the rod that struck you is broken. For a viper will spring from the root of the snake, and a flying serpent from its egg.
Read in contextJeremiah 48:15–17
Moab has been destroyed and its towns have been invaded; the best of its young men have gone down in the slaughter, declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts.
Read in contextIsaiah 10:5
Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath.
Read in context