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Isaiah 14

Israel's Taunt

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When the LORD will  ahave compassion on Jacob and again  bchoose Israel, and settle them in their own land, then  cstrangers will join them and attach themselves to the house of Jacob.

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The peoples will take them along and bring them to their place, and the  ahouse of Israel will possess them as an inheritance in the land of the LORD  bas male servants and female servants; and  1they will take their captors captive and will rule over their oppressors.

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And it will be in the day when the LORD gives you  arest from your pain and turmoil and harsh service in which you have been enslaved,

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that you will  atake up this  1taunt against the king of Babylon, and say, "How  bthe oppressor has ceased, And how  2fury has ceased!

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"The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, The scepter of rulers

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 aWhich used to strike the peoples in fury with unceasing strokes, Which  1subdued the nations in anger with unrestrained persecution.

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"The whole earth is at rest and is quiet; They  abreak forth into shouts of joy.

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"Even the  acypress trees rejoice over you, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, `Since you were laid low, no tree cutter comes up against us.'

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aSheol from beneath is excited over you to meet you when you come; It arouses for you the  1spirits of the dead, all the  2leaders of the earth; It raises all the kings of the nations from their thrones.

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aThey will all respond and say to you, `Even you have been made weak as we, You have become like us.

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`Your  apomp and the music of your harps Have been brought down to Sheol; Maggots are spread out as your bed beneath you And worms are your covering.'

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"How you have  afallen from heaven, O  1 bstar of the morning, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the earth, You who have weakened the nations!

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"But you said in your heart, `I will  aascend to heaven; I will  braise my throne above the stars of God, And I will sit on the mount of assembly In the recesses of the north.

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`I will ascend above the heights of the clouds;  aI will make myself like the Most High.'

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"Nevertheless you  awill be thrust down to Sheol, To the recesses of the pit.

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"Those who see you will gaze at you, They will  1ponder over you, saying, `Is this the man who made the earth tremble, Who shook kingdoms,

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Who made the world like a  awilderness And overthrew its cities, Who  bdid not  1allow his prisoners to go home?'

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"All the kings of the nations lie in glory, Each in his own  1tomb.

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"But you have been  acast out of your tomb Like  1a rejected branch,  2Clothed with the slain who are pierced with a sword, Who go down to the stones of the  bpit Like a  ctrampled corpse.

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"You will not be united with them in burial, Because you have ruined your country, You have slain your people. May the  aoffspring of evildoers not be mentioned forever.

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"Prepare for his sons a place of slaughter Because of the  ainiquity of their fathers. They must not arise and take possession of the earth And fill the face of the world with cities."

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"I will rise up against them," declares the LORD of hosts, "and will cut off from Babylon  aname and survivors,  boffspring and posterity," declares the LORD.

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"I will also make it a possession for the  ahedgehog and swamps of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of  bdestruction," declares the LORD of hosts.

Judgment on Assyria

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The LORD of hosts has sworn saying, "Surely,  ajust as I have intended so it has happened, and just as I have planned so it will stand,

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to  abreak Assyria in My land, and I will trample him on My mountains. Then his  byoke will be removed from them and his burden removed from their shoulder.

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"This is the  aplan  1devised against the whole earth; and this is the  bhand that is stretched out against all the nations.

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"For  athe LORD of hosts has planned, and who can frustrate it? And as for His stretched-out hand, who can turn it back?"

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In the  ayear that King Ahaz died this  1 boracle came:

Judgment on Philistia

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"Do not rejoice, O  aPhilistia, all of you, Because the rod that  bstruck you is broken; For from the serpent's root a  cviper will come out, And its fruit will be a  dflying serpent.

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1Those who are most  ahelpless will eat, And the needy will lie down in security; I will  2destroy your root with  bfamine, And it will kill off your survivors.

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"Wail, O  agate; cry, O city;  1Melt away, O  bPhilistia, all of you; For smoke comes from the  cnorth, And  dthere is no straggler in his ranks.

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"How then will one answer the  amessengers of the nation? That  bthe LORD has founded Zion, And  cthe afflicted of His people will seek refuge in it."



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