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Text -- Isaiah 14:1-11 (NET)
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14:1 The Lord will certainly have compassion on Jacob ; he will again choose Israel as his special people and restore them to their land . Resident foreigners will join them and unite with the family of Jacob .
14:2 Nations will take them and bring them back to their own place . Then the family of Jacob will make foreigners their servants as they settle in the Lord’s land . They will make their captors captives and rule over the ones who oppressed them.
14:3 When the Lord gives you relief from your suffering and anxiety , and from the hard labor which you were made to perform ,
14:4 you will taunt the king of Babylon with these words: “Look how the oppressor has met his end ! Hostility has ceased !
14:5 The Lord has broken the club of the wicked , the scepter of rulers .
14:6 It furiously struck down nations with unceasing blows . It angrily ruled over nations , oppressing them without restraint .
14:7 The whole earth rests and is quiet ; they break into song .
14:8 The evergreens also rejoice over your demise, as do the cedars of Lebanon , singing, ‘Since you fell asleep , no woodsman comes up to chop us down !’
14:9 Sheol below is stirred up about you, ready to meet you when you arrive . It rouses the spirits of the dead for you, all the former leaders of the earth ; it makes all the former kings of the nations rise from their thrones .
14:10 All of them respond to you, saying : ‘You too have become weak like us! You have become just like us!
14:11 Your splendor has been brought down to Sheol , as well as the sound of your stringed instruments . You lie on a bed of maggots , with a blanket of worms over you.
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
SHEOL |
ISAIAH, 8-9 |
Isaiah |
Isaiah, The Book of |
PROVERB |
ISAIAH, BOOK OF |
ISAIAH, 1-7 |
Babylon |
Rulers |
Nation |
Death |
Hell |
PSALTERY |
BONDAGE |
VIOL |
Lebanon |
Immortality |
GOAT |
WORM; SCARLET-WORM |
Scepter |
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NET Notes: Isa 14:2 Heb “and the house of Jacob will take possession of them [i.e., the nations], on the land of the Lord, as male servants and female servants.R...
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NET Notes: Isa 14:3 The verb that introduces this verse serves as a discourse particle and is untranslated; see note on “in the future” in 2:2.
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NET Notes: Isa 14:4 The word in the Hebrew text (מַדְהֵבָה, madhevah) is unattested elsewhere and of uncertain meani...
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NET Notes: Isa 14:6 Heb “it was ruling in anger nations [with] oppression without restraint.” The participle (“ruling”) suggests repeated or conti...
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NET Notes: Isa 14:9 Heb “lifting from their thrones all the kings of the nations.” הֵקִים (heqim, a Hiphil perfect third m...
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