Old Testament · Prophets

Isaiah chapter 14

Because Yahweh will have on — he will choose Israel again and settle them back on their own soil. will join themselves to them and attach themselves to the house of Jacob.Peoples will take them and bring them home, and the house of Israel will those peoples as servants and maids in Yahweh’s land. They will take captive those who once captured them, and they will rule over those who once them.And on the day Yahweh gives you from your pain, from your turmoil, and from the forced on you —you will raise this against the king of Babylon and say: Look how the has come to nothing! The — finished!Yahweh has snapped the of the wicked, the of tyrants —the one who struck peoples in with blows that never stopped, who trampled nations in anger with .The whole earth is , is quiet. They !Even the celebrate over you, the : ‘Since you were laid low, no woodcutter comes up against us.’ beneath shudders to meet you when you arrive. It rouses the for you — all the once-mighty of the earth. It raises from their thrones all the kings of nations.They all speak up and say to you: ‘You too have become like us! You have become just like us!’Your has been dragged down to Sheol, the music of your . Maggots are spread beneath you as your bed, and worms are your blanket.How you have , , ! How you have been cut down to the ground, you who laid nations low!You said in your heart: ‘I will climb to the sky. Above the I will set my throne. I will sit on the , on the .’‘I will rise above the tops of the clouds. I will make myself like the .’But down to Sheol you are brought, to the far depths of the .Those who see you will , will study you closely: ‘Is this the man who made the earth tremble, who shook kingdoms?’‘Is this the one who turned the world into a , who demolished its cities, who never let his go home?’All the kings of the nations — every one of them — lie in , each in his own .But you — you are thrown out, away from your grave, like a , covered with , the sword-pierced, those thrown down to the stones at the bottom of the pit — like a corpse trampled underfoot.You will not join them in burial, because you , you killed your own people. The offspring of evildoers will never be again.Prepare a for his sons because of the of their fathers — so they will never rise to possess the earth or fill the face of the world with cities.“I will rise against them” — this is the of — “and I will cut off from Babylon name and remnant, offspring and descendant” — this is Yahweh’s declaration.“I will turn her into a haunt for , into swampy marshland, and I will sweep her with the ” — this is the declaration of Yahweh of Armies.Yahweh of Armies has : “Exactly as I have it, so it will be. Exactly as I have purposed it, so it will stand —to break in my land and trample him on my mountains. Then his will fall from them, his burden will lift from their shoulders.”This is the laid out for the whole earth, and this is the over all the nations.When Yahweh of Armies has it, who can undo it? When his hand is stretched out, who can turn it back?In the year King died, this came:Don’t celebrate, all you , that the rod that struck you is broken. Because from the snake’s root will come a viper, and its fruit will be a .The will find , and the desperate will lie down in safety. But I will kill your root with famine, and your remnant — it will be slaughtered., gate! Cry out, city! Melt in fear, all of Philistia! Because from the north comes , and there is .And what will anyone answer the messengers of that nation? That Yahweh has , and in her the afflicted of his people find .