Isa 14 | ABEn | STEP | Quickly it comes, and shall not pass time, and their days in no way shall drag. And the lord shall show mercy on Jacob, and will choose yet Israel, and they shall rest upon their land; and the foreigner shall be added to them, and they shall be added to the house of Jacob.

Isaiah 14

CHAPTER 14 The King of Babylon

1 Quickly it comes, and shall not pass time, and their days in no way shall drag. And the lord shall show mercy on Jacob, and will choose yet Israel, and they shall rest upon their land; and the foreigner shall be added to them, and they shall be added to the house of Jacob. 2 And [²shall take ³them ¹nations], and bring them into their place; and they shall inherit them, and they shall be multiplied upon the land of God for manservants and maidservants; and [⁴shall be ⁵captives ¹the ²ones capturing ³them]; and they shall dominate the ones dominating them. 3 And it will be in that day [²will rest ³you ¹the lord] from the grief, and your rage, and [³slavery ¹your ²hard] of which you slaved for them. 4 And you shall take up this wailing against the king of Babylon, and you shall say in that day, O how [³has been rested ¹the ²one exacting], and [³has been rested ¹the ²taskmaster]! 5 The lord broke the yoke of the sinners, the yoke of the rulers. 6 Having struck a nation in rage [²calamity ¹with an incurable]; hitting a nation with a calamity of rage, which he spared not, he rested persuading. 7 All the earth yells with gladness. 8 And the trees of Lebanon shall be gladdened against you, and the cedar of Lebanon, saying, From of which time you were laid low, there ascended not one felling us. 9 Hades from below was embittered meeting with you; [⁷were risen up together ⁸against you ¹all ²the ³giants ⁴ruling ⁵the ⁶earth], the ones rising from their thrones, all the kings of the nations. 10 All shall answer and shall say to you, You also captured as even we; [³among ⁴us ¹and ²are you reckoned]? 11 [²went down ³into ⁴Hades ¹Your glory], [²great ³gladness ¹your]; underneath you they shall make a bed of putrefaction, and [²shall be your covering ¹the worm].

The Fallen Morning Star

12 O how [³fell ⁴from out of ⁵the ⁶heaven ¹the ²morning star] -- the one [²by morning ¹rising]; [⁷was broken ⁸unto ⁹the ¹⁰earth ¹the one ²sending ³to ⁴all ⁵the ⁶nations]. 13 But you said in your heart, Unto the heaven I shall ascend; [³upon ⁴the ⁵stars ⁶of the ⁷heaven ¹I will put ²my throne]; I shall sit on [²mountain ¹a high], upon the [²mountains ¹high] towards the north; 14 I will ascend upon the clouds; I will be likened to the highest. 15 But now [²into ³Hades ¹you shall go down], and into the foundations of the earth. 16 The ones beholding you shall wonder over you, and shall say, Is this the man provoking the earth, the one shaking kings; 17 the one making the inhabitable world desolate, and [²its cities ¹demolished]; the ones in enslavement he did not loose. 18 All the kings of the nations sleep in honor, every man in his house. 19 But you shall be tossed in the mountains as dead, being abhorred with many having died being stabbed by a sword, going down into Hades. 20 In which manner a garment [²by ³blood ¹being befouled] shall not be clean, so not even shall you be clean; because [²my land ¹you destroyed], and [²my people ¹killed]; in no way should you abide into the eon of time -- [²seed ¹O evil]. 21 Prepare your children to be slain for the sins of their father! that they should not rise up and inherit the earth, and should fill up the earth with wars. 22 And I will rise up against them, says the lord of Hosts, and I will destroy their name, and vestige, and seed -- thus says the lord. 23 And I will make the Babylonian region desolate so as for [²to dwell ¹hedgehogs]. And it will be for nothing, and I will make it a clay pit for destruction.

The Plan for the Inhabitable World

24 Thus says the lord of Hosts, In which manner I have said, so it will be; and in which manner I have deliberated, so it shall remain; 25 even to destroy the Assyrians upon [²land ¹my], and upon my mountains; and they will be for trampling. And [²shall be removed ³from ⁴them ¹their yoke], and their dignity [²from ³their shoulders ¹shall be removed]. 26 This is the plan which the lord planned for all the inhabitable world. And this is the [²hand ¹high] upon all the nations. 27 For what the [²God ¹holy] planned, who shall efface? And [⁵hand ³his ⁴high ¹who ²shall turn]?

The Destruction of the Philistines

28 The year in which [³died ²Ahaz ¹king], came this saying. 29 Be not glad all Philistines, for he broke the yoke of the one hitting you. For from out of the seed of the serpent shall come forth a progeny of asps, and their progeny shall come forth as [²serpents ¹flying]. 30 And [²shall be grazed ¹the poor] by him; and poor men with peace shall rest; and he shall do away [²with ³hunger ¹your seed]; and your vestige he will do away with. 31 Shriek, O gates of the cities! Cry out, O cities! [⁴are being disturbed ²the ³Philistines ¹All]. For from the north smoke comes, and there is no being. 32 And what shall [³answer ¹the kings ²of the nations]? For the lord laid a foundation in Zion, and through him [³shall be delivered ²peoples ¹many].