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Isaiah 14:4

you will sing this song of contempt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has ceased, and how his fury has ended!

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ASV

that thou shalt take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!

KJV

That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!

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12 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וְנָשָׂ֜אתָve.na.Sa.taand you will lift upH5375 →
הַמָּשָׁ֥לha.ma.Shalthe sayingH4912 →
הַזֶּ֛הha.Zeh<the> thisH2088 →
עַל־'al-onH5921 →
מֶ֥לֶךְMe.lekh[the] king ofH4428 →
בָּבֶ֖לba.VelBabylonH894 →
וְאָמָ֑רְתָּve.'a.Ma.re.taand you will sayH559 →
אֵ֚יךְ'eikhhow!H349 →
שָׁבַ֣תsha.Vathe has ceasedH7673 →
נֹגֵ֔שׂno.Ges[the] oppressorH5065 →
שָׁבְתָ֖הsha.ve.Tahit has ceasedH7673 →
מַדְהֵבָֽה׃mad.he.VahragingH4062 →

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Isaiah 16:4Let my fugitives stay with you; be a refuge for Moab from the destroyer.” When the oppressor has gone, destruction has ceased, and the oppressors have vanished from the land,Isaiah 49:26I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh; they will be drunk on their own blood, as with wine. Then all mankind will know that I, the LORD, am your Savior and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”Jeremiah 27:6–7So now I have placed all these lands under the authority of My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. I have even made the beasts of the field subject to him.Isaiah 13:19And Babylon, the jewel of the kingdoms, the glory of the pride of the Chaldeans, will be overthrown by God like Sodom and Gomorrah.Habakkuk 2:17For your violence against Lebanon will overwhelm you, and the destruction of animals will terrify you, because of your bloodshed against men and your violence against the land, the city, and all their dwellers.Revelation 16:5–6And I heard the angel of the waters say: “Righteous are You, O Holy One, who is and was, because You have brought these judgments.Jeremiah 25:9–14behold, I will summon all the families of the north, declares the LORD, and I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, whom I will bring against this land, against its residents, and against all the surrounding nations. So I will devote them to destruction and make them an object of horror and contempt, an everlasting desolation.Isaiah 45:2–3“I will go before you and level the mountains; I will break down the gates of bronze and cut through the bars of iron.Revelation 18:20Rejoice over her, O heaven, O saints and apostles and prophets, because God has pronounced for you His judgment against her.Habakkuk 1:2–10How long, O LORD, must I call for help but You do not hear, or cry out to You, “Violence!” but You do not save?Jeremiah 24:9I will make them a horror and an offense to all the kingdoms of the earth, a disgrace and an object of scorn, ridicule, and cursing wherever I have banished them.Daniel 2:38Wherever the sons of men or beasts of the field or birds of the air dwell, He has given them into your hand and has made you ruler over them all. You are that head of gold.2 Chronicles 36:18who carried off everything to Babylon—all the articles of the house of God, both large and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD and of the king and his officials.Jeremiah 51:34–35“Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me. He has set me aside like an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like a monster; he filled his belly with my delicacies and vomited me out.Jeremiah 51:20–24“You are My war club, My weapon for battle. With you I shatter nations; with you I bring kingdoms to ruin.Isaiah 51:23I will place it in the hands of your tormentors, who told you: ‘Lie down, so we can walk over you,’ so that you made your back like the ground, like a street to be traversed.”Isaiah 14:17who turned the world into a desert and destroyed its cities, who refused to let the captives return to their homes?”Daniel 7:19–25Then I wanted to know the true meaning of the fourth beast, which was different from all the others—extremely terrifying—devouring and crushing with iron teeth and bronze claws, then trampling underfoot whatever was left.

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Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Fall of the Rebel Angels (1562) — the tradition that read Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28 as the adversary's own fall.

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The Origin of Evil

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Guido Reni, St. Michael Trampling the Devil (c. 1635): the enemy of Revelation 12 named and defeated.

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About Isaiah

The Prophet Isaiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Prophet Isaiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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