Isa 14:7-8 | JFB | STEP | 7. they —the once subject nations of the whole earth. HOUBIGANT places the stop after "fir trees" ( ), "The very fir trees break forth," &c. But the parallelism is better in English Version.

Isaiah 14:7-8

7. they—the once subject nations of the whole earth. HOUBIGANT places the stop after "fir trees" (Isa 14:8), "The very fir trees break forth," &c. But the parallelism is better in English Version.

8. the fir trees—now left undisturbed. Probably a kind of evergreen.

rejoice at thee— (Ps 96:12). At thy fall (Ps 35:19, 24).

no feller—as formerly, when thou wast in power (Isa 10:34; 37:24).

Isa 14:9-11. THE SCENE CHANGES FROM EARTH TO HELL.

Hades (the Amenthes of Egypt), the unseen abode of the departed; some of its tenants, once mighty monarchs, are represented by a bold personification as rising from their seats in astonishment at the descent among them of the humbled king of Babylon. This proves, in opposition to WARBURTON [The Divine Legation], that the belief existed among the Jews that there was a Sheol or Hades, in which the "Rephaim" or manes of the departed abode.