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Isaiah 14
New International Version

14 The Lord will have compassion(A) on Jacob;
once again he will choose(B) Israel
and will settle them in their own land.(C)
Foreigners(D) will join them
and unite with the descendants of Jacob.
2 Nations will take them
and bring(E) them to their own place.
And Israel will take possession of the nations(F)
and make them male and female servants in the Lord’s land.
They will make captives(G) of their captors
and rule over their oppressors.(H)

3 On the day the Lord gives you relief(I) from your suffering and turmoil(J) and from the harsh labor forced on you,(K) 4 you will take up this taunt(L) against the king of Babylon:(M)

How the oppressor(N) has come to an end!
How his fury[a] has ended!
5 The Lord has broken the rod(O) of the wicked,(P)
the scepter(Q) of the rulers,
6 which in anger struck down peoples(R)
with unceasing blows,
and in fury subdued(S) nations
with relentless aggression.(T)
7 All the lands are at rest and at peace;(U)
they break into singing.(V)
8 Even the junipers(W) and the cedars of Lebanon
gloat over you and say,
“Now that you have been laid low,
no one comes to cut us down.”(X)

9 The realm of the dead(Y) below is all astir
to meet you at your coming;
it rouses the spirits of the departed(Z) to greet you—
all those who were leaders(AA) in the world;
it makes them rise from their thrones—
all those who were kings over the nations.(AB)
10 They will all respond,
they will say to you,
“You also have become weak, as we are;
you have become like us.”(AC)
11 All your pomp has been brought down to the grave,(AD)
along with the noise of your harps;(AE)
maggots are spread out beneath you
and worms(AF) cover you.(AG)

12 How you have fallen(AH) from heaven,
morning star,(AI) son of the dawn!
You have been cast down to the earth,
you who once laid low the nations!(AJ)
13 You said in your heart,
“I will ascend(AK) to the heavens;
I will raise my throne(AL)
above the stars of God;
I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly,(AM)
on the utmost heights(AN) of Mount Zaphon.[b]
14 I will ascend above the tops of the clouds;(AO)
I will make myself like the Most High.”(AP)
15 But you are brought down(AQ) to the realm of the dead,(AR)
to the depths(AS) of the pit.(AT)

16 Those who see you stare at you,
they ponder your fate:(AU)
“Is this the man who shook(AV) the earth
and made kingdoms tremble,
17 the man who made the world a wilderness,(AW)
who overthrew(AX) its cities
and would not let his captives go home?”(AY)

18 All the kings of the nations lie in state,
each in his own tomb.(AZ)
19 But you are cast out(BA) of your tomb
like a rejected branch;
you are covered with the slain,(BB)
with those pierced by the sword,(BC)
those who descend to the stones of the pit.(BD)
Like a corpse trampled underfoot,
20 you will not join them in burial,(BE)
for you have destroyed your land
and killed your people.

Let the offspring(BF) of the wicked(BG)
never be mentioned(BH) again.
21 Prepare a place to slaughter his children(BI)
for the sins of their ancestors;(BJ)
they are not to rise to inherit the land
and cover the earth with their cities.

22 “I will rise up(BK) against them,”
declares the Lord Almighty.
“I will wipe out Babylon’s name(BL) and survivors,
her offspring and descendants,(BM)”
declares the Lord.
23 “I will turn her into a place for owls(BN)
and into swampland;
I will sweep her with the broom of destruction,(BO)”
declares the Lord Almighty.(BP)

24 The Lord Almighty has sworn,(BQ)

“Surely, as I have planned,(BR) so it will be,
and as I have purposed, so it will happen.(BS)
25 I will crush the Assyrian(BT) in my land;
on my mountains I will trample him down.
His yoke(BU) will be taken from my people,
and his burden removed from their shoulders.(BV)”

26 This is the plan(BW) determined for the whole world;
this is the hand(BX) stretched out over all nations.
27 For the Lord Almighty has purposed,(BY) and who can thwart him?
His hand(BZ) is stretched out, and who can turn it back?(CA)

### A Prophecy Against the Philistines

28 This prophecy(CB) came in the year(CC) King Ahaz(CD) died:

29 Do not rejoice, all you Philistines,(CE)
that the rod that struck you is broken;
from the root of that snake will spring up a viper,(CF)
its fruit will be a darting, venomous serpent.(CG)
30 The poorest of the poor will find pasture,
and the needy(CH) will lie down in safety.(CI)
But your root I will destroy by famine;(CJ)
it will slay(CK) your survivors.(CL)

31 Wail,(CM) you gate!(CN) Howl, you city!
Melt away, all you Philistines!(CO)
A cloud of smoke comes from the north,(CP)
and there is not a straggler in its ranks.(CQ)
32 What answer shall be given
to the envoys(CR) of that nation?
“The Lord has established Zion,(CS)
and in her his afflicted people will find refuge.(CT)”

#### Footnotes

1. Isaiah 14:4 Dead Sea Scrolls, Septuagint and Syriac; the meaning of the word in the Masoretic Text is uncertain.
2. Isaiah 14:13 Or of the north; Zaphon was the most sacred mountain of the Canaanites.

#### Cross references

1. Isaiah 14:1 : Ps 102:13; Isa 49:10, 13; 54:7-8, 10; Jer 33:26; Zec 10:6
2. Isaiah 14:1 : Ge 18:19; 2Ch 6:6; Isa 41:8; 42:1; 44:1; 45:4; 49:7; 65:9, 22; Zec 1:17; 2:12; 3:2
3. Isaiah 14:1 : Jer 3:18; 16:15; 23:8
4. Isaiah 14:1 : S Ex 12:43; S Isa 11:10; Eze 47:22; Zec 8:22-23; Eph 2:12-19
5. Isaiah 14:2 : S Isa 11:12; 60:9
6. Isaiah 14:2 : S Ps 49:14; Isa 26:15; 43:14; 49:7, 23; 54:3
7. Isaiah 14:2 : Ps 149:8; Isa 45:14; 49:25; 60:12; Jer 40:1
8. Isaiah 14:2 : Isa 60:14; 61:5; Jer 30:16; 49:2; Eze 39:10; Zep 3:19; Zec 2:9
9. Isaiah 14:3 : S Isa 11:10
10. Isaiah 14:3 : S Job 3:17
11. Isaiah 14:3 : S Ex 1:14
12. Isaiah 14:4 : Mic 2:4; Hab 2:6
13. Isaiah 14:4 : S Isa 13:1
14. Isaiah 14:4 : S Isa 9:4
15. Isaiah 14:5 : S Isa 10:15
16. Isaiah 14:5 : S Ps 125:3
17. Isaiah 14:5 : S Ps 110:2
18. Isaiah 14:6 : Isa 10:14
19. Isaiah 14:6 : S Ps 47:3
20. Isaiah 14:6 : S 2Ki 15:29; Isa 47:6; Hab 1:17
21. Isaiah 14:7 : S Nu 6:26; Jer 50:34; Zec 1:11
22. Isaiah 14:7 : Ps 98:1; 126:1-3; Isa 12:6
23. Isaiah 14:8 : S 1Ch 16:33; S Ps 65:13; Eze 31:16
24. Isaiah 14:8 : S 2Ki 19:23; Isa 37:24
25. Isaiah 14:9 : S Pr 30:16; Eze 32:21
26. Isaiah 14:9 : S Job 26:5
27. Isaiah 14:9 : Zec 10:3
28. Isaiah 14:9 : S Job 3:14
29. Isaiah 14:10 : Eze 26:20; 32:21
30. Isaiah 14:11 : S Nu 16:30; S Pr 30:16
31. Isaiah 14:11 : Isa 5:12; Eze 26:13; Am 6:5
32. Isaiah 14:11 : S Job 7:5; 24:20; Isa 51:8; 66:24
33. Isaiah 14:11 : S Job 21:26
34. Isaiah 14:12 : Lk 10:18
35. Isaiah 14:12 : 2Pe 1:19; Rev 2:28; 8:10; 9:1
36. Isaiah 14:12 : Eze 26:17
37. Isaiah 14:13 : Da 5:23; 8:10; Ob 1:4; Mt 11:23
38. Isaiah 14:13 : Eze 28:2; 2Th 2:4
39. Isaiah 14:13 : Ps 82:1
40. Isaiah 14:13 : Isa 37:24
41. Isaiah 14:14 : S Job 20:6
42. Isaiah 14:14 : S Ge 3:5; S Nu 24:16; Isa 10:13; 47:8; Jer 50:29; 51:53; Da 11:36; 2Th 2:4
43. Isaiah 14:15 : Isa 13:6; 45:7; 47:11; Jer 51:8, 43
44. Isaiah 14:15 : S Job 21:13
45. Isaiah 14:15 : Mt 11:23; Lk 10:15
46. Isaiah 14:15 : S Ps 55:23; Eze 31:16; 32:23
47. Isaiah 14:16 : Jer 50:23; Rev 18:9
48. Isaiah 14:16 : S Isa 2:19; 13:13; Joel 3:16; Hag 2:6, 21
49. Isaiah 14:17 : Isa 15:6; Joel 2:3
50. Isaiah 14:17 : Ps 52:7
51. Isaiah 14:17 : Ex 7:14; S 2Ki 15:29; Jer 50:33; Rev 18:18
52. Isaiah 14:18 : Job 21:32
53. Isaiah 14:19 : Isa 22:16-18; Jer 8:1; 36:30
54. Isaiah 14:19 : Isa 34:3
55. Isaiah 14:19 : S Isa 13:15
56. Isaiah 14:19 : Jer 41:7-9
57. Isaiah 14:20 : S 1Ki 21:19
58. Isaiah 14:20 : S Job 18:19
59. Isaiah 14:20 : S Isa 1:4
60. Isaiah 14:20 : S Dt 32:26
61. Isaiah 14:21 : S Nu 16:27
62. Isaiah 14:21 : S Ge 9:25; S Lev 26:39
63. Isaiah 14:22 : S Ps 94:16
64. Isaiah 14:22 : S Job 18:17; Ps 109:13; Na 1:14
65. Isaiah 14:22 : 2Sa 18:18; 1Ki 14:10; Job 18:19; S Ps 9:6; S Isa 13:18
66. Isaiah 14:23 : S Lev 11:16-18; Isa 34:11-15; Zep 2:14
67. Isaiah 14:23 : S Isa 10:3; Jer 25:12
68. Isaiah 14:23 : Jer 50:3; 51:62
69. Isaiah 14:24 : Isa 45:23; 49:18; 54:9; 62:8
70. Isaiah 14:24 : Isa 19:12, 17; 23:8-9; 25:1; Da 4:35
71. Isaiah 14:24 : S Job 9:3; S Isa 7:7; 46:10-11; Eze 12:25; Ac 4:28
72. Isaiah 14:25 : S Isa 10:5, 12; 37:36-38
73. Isaiah 14:25 : S Isa 9:4
74. Isaiah 14:25 : S Isa 10:27
75. Isaiah 14:26 : Isa 23:9
76. Isaiah 14:26 : Ex 15:12; S Job 30:21
77. Isaiah 14:27 : Jer 49:20
78. Isaiah 14:27 : S Ex 14:21
79. Isaiah 14:27 : S 2Ch 20:6; Isa 43:13; Da 4:35
80. Isaiah 14:28 : S Isa 13:1
81. Isaiah 14:28 : S 2Ki 15:7
82. Isaiah 14:28 : S 2Ki 16:1
83. Isaiah 14:29 : S Jos 13:3; S 2Ki 1:2; S 2Ch 26:6
84. Isaiah 14:29 : S Isa 11:8
85. Isaiah 14:29 : S Dt 8:15
86. Isaiah 14:30 : Isa 3:15; 25:4
87. Isaiah 14:30 : S Isa 7:21-22
88. Isaiah 14:30 : Isa 8:21; 9:20; 51:19
89. Isaiah 14:30 : Jer 25:16; Zec 9:5-6
90. Isaiah 14:30 : Eze 25:15-17; Zep 2:5
91. Isaiah 14:31 : S Isa 13:6
92. Isaiah 14:31 : S Isa 3:26
93. Isaiah 14:31 : S Ge 10:14
94. Isaiah 14:31 : Isa 41:25; Jer 1:14; 4:6; 6:1, 22; 10:22; 13:20; 25:9; 46:20, 24; 47:2; 50:41; Eze 32:30
95. Isaiah 14:31 : S Isa 5:27
96. Isaiah 14:32 : Isa 37:9
97. Isaiah 14:32 : S Ps 51:18; 87:2, 5; Isa 2:2; 26:1; 28:16; 31:5; 33:5, 20; 44:28; 51:21; 54:11
98. Isaiah 14:32 : S Isa 4:6; Jas 2:5

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