Isaiah 14

1For Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land. The foreigner will join himself with them, and they will unite with the house of Jacob.Cross-references: Lev 26:40 · Deut 4:29 · Deut 30:3 · Ruth 1:14 · Neh 1:8 · Esth 8:17 · +39 more

2The peoples will take them, and bring them to their place. The house of Israel will possess them in Yahweh’s land for servants and for handmaids. They will take as captives those whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.Cross-references: Ezra 2:65 · Ps 68:18 · Isa 18:7 · Isa 49:23 · Isa 60:9 · Isa 60:14 · +13 more

3It will happen in the day that Yahweh will give you rest from your sorrow, from your trouble, and from the hard service in which you were made to serve,Cross-references: Deut 28:48 · Deut 28:65 · Ezra 9:8 · Isa 11:10 · Isa 12:1 · Isa 32:18 · +8 more

4that you will take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, “How the oppressor has ceased! The golden city has ceased!”Cross-references: 2Chr 36:18 · Isa 9:4 · Isa 13:19 · Isa 14:6 · Isa 14:17 · Isa 45:2 · +22 more

5Yahweh has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers,Cross-references: Ps 125:3 · Isa 9:4 · Isa 10:5 · Isa 14:29 · Jer 48:15

6who struck the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, who ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that no one restrained.Cross-references: 2Chr 36:17 · Job 9:13 · Prov 21:30 · Isa 10:14 · Isa 13:14 · Isa 21:1 · +11 more

7The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet. They break out in song.Cross-references: Ps 96:11 · Ps 98:1 · Ps 98:7 · Ps 126:1 · Prov 11:10 · Isa 49:13 · +3 more

8Yes, the cypress trees rejoice with you, with the cedars of Lebanon, saying, “Since you are humbled, no lumberjack has come up against us.”Cross-references: Isa 55:12 · Ezek 31:16 · Zech 11:2

9Sheol from beneath has moved for you to meet you at your coming. It stirs up the departed spirits for you, even all the rulers of the earth. It has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.Cross-references: Prov 15:24 · Jer 50:8 · Ezek 32:21

10They all will answer and ask you, “Have you also become as weak as we are? Have you become like us?”Cross-references: Ps 49:6 · Ps 49:20 · Ps 82:6 · Eccl 2:16 · Ezek 32:21 · Luke 16:20

11Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, with the sound of your stringed instruments. Maggots are spread out under you, and worms cover you.Cross-references: Job 17:13 · Job 21:11 · Job 24:19 · Isa 21:4 · Isa 22:2 · Isa 66:24 · +7 more

12How you have fallen from heaven, shining one, son of the dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low!Cross-references: Isa 13:10 · Isa 14:4 · Isa 34:4 · Jer 50:23 · Jer 51:20 · Ezek 28:13 · +8 more

13You said in your heart, “I will ascend into heaven! I will exalt my throne above the stars of God! I will sit on the mountain of assembly, in the far north!Cross-references: Ps 48:2 · Isa 2:2 · Isa 47:7 · Ezek 27:3 · Ezek 28:2 · Ezek 28:9 · +9 more

14I will ascend above the heights of the clouds! I will make myself like the Most High!”Cross-references: Gen 3:5 · Isa 37:23 · Isa 47:8 · 2Thess 2:4

15Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the pit.Cross-references: Isa 14:3 · Ezek 28:8 · Ezek 32:23 · Matt 11:23 · Luke 10:15 · Acts 12:22 · +1 more

16Those who see you will stare at you. They will ponder you, saying, “Is this the man who made the earth to tremble, who shook kingdoms,Cross-references: Ps 52:7 · Ps 58:10 · Ps 64:9 · Isa 14:4 · Jer 50:23 · Jer 51:20

17who made the world like a wilderness, and overthrew its cities, who didn’t release his prisoners to their home?”Cross-references: 2Chr 28:8 · Ezra 1:2 · Isa 13:19 · Isa 45:13 · Isa 58:6 · Isa 64:10 · +3 more

18All the kings of the nations sleep in glory, everyone in his own house.Cross-references: 2Chr 24:16 · 2Chr 24:25 · Job 30:23 · Eccl 6:3 · Eccl 12:5 · Isa 22:16 · +1 more

19But you are cast away from your tomb like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain who are thrust through with the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit; like a dead body trodden under foot.Cross-references: 1Ki 21:19 · 1Ki 21:24 · 2Ki 9:25 · 2Ki 9:34 · Isa 22:16 · Jer 8:1 · +5 more

20You will not join them in burial, because you have destroyed your land. You have killed your people. The offspring of evildoers will not be named forever.Cross-references: Job 18:16 · Job 18:19 · Ps 21:10 · Ps 37:28 · Ps 109:13 · Ps 137:8 · +2 more

21Prepare for slaughter of his children because of the iniquity of their fathers, that they not rise up and possess the earth, and fill the surface of the world with cities.Cross-references: Ex 20:5 · Lev 26:39 · Isa 27:6 · Hab 2:8 · Matt 23:35

22“I will rise up against them,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, and son and son’s son,” says Yahweh.Cross-references: 1Ki 14:10 · Job 18:16 · Prov 10:7 · Isa 13:5 · Isa 21:9 · Isa 43:14 · +6 more

23“I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, and pools of water. I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,” says Yahweh of Armies.Cross-references: 1Ki 14:10 · 2Ki 21:13 · Isa 13:21 · Isa 34:11 · Jer 50:39 · Jer 51:25 · +5 more

24Yahweh of Armies has sworn, saying, “Surely, as I have thought, so shall it happen; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:Cross-references: Ex 17:16 · Job 23:13 · Ps 33:10 · Ps 92:5 · Ps 110:4 · Prov 19:21 · +12 more

25that I will break the Assyrian in my land, and tread him under foot on my mountains. Then his yoke will leave them, and his burden leave their shoulders.Cross-references: Isa 9:4 · Isa 10:12 · Isa 10:16 · Isa 10:24 · Isa 10:32 · Isa 14:5 · +6 more

26This is the plan that is determined for the whole earth. This is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations.Cross-references: Ex 15:12 · Isa 5:25 · Isa 23:9 · Zeph 3:6

27For Yahweh of Armies has planned, and who can stop it? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?”Cross-references: 2Chr 20:6 · Job 9:12 · Job 23:13 · Job 40:8 · Ps 33:11 · Prov 19:21 · +10 more

28This burden was in the year that King Ahaz died.Cross-references: 2Ki 16:20 · 2Chr 28:27 · Isa 6:1 · Isa 13:1

29Don’t rejoice, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod that struck you is broken; for out of the serpent’s root an adder will emerge, and his fruit will be a fiery flying serpent.Cross-references: Josh 13:3 · 1Sam 6:17 · 2Ki 18:8 · 2Chr 26:6 · 2Chr 28:18 · Prov 24:17 · +8 more

30The firstborn of the poor will eat, and the needy will lie down in safety; and I will kill your root with famine, and your remnant will be killed.Cross-references: Job 18:13 · Isa 3:15 · Isa 5:17 · Isa 7:21 · Isa 8:21 · Isa 9:20 · +11 more

31Howl, gate! Cry, city! You are melted away, Philistia, all of you; for smoke comes out of the north, and there is no straggler in his ranks.Cross-references: Isa 3:26 · Isa 13:6 · Isa 14:29 · Isa 16:7 · Isa 20:1 · Isa 24:12 · +2 more

32What will they answer the messengers of the nation? That Yahweh has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people will take refuge.Cross-references: 2Sam 8:10 · 2Ki 20:12 · Ps 87:1 · Ps 87:5 · Ps 102:16 · Ps 102:28 · +19 more