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Isaiah 14

The return of the people from captivitie. 4 The derision of the King of Babylon. 11 The death of the King. 29 The destruction of the Philistíms.
1.For athe Lord will have compassion of Jaakób, and will yet choose Israél, and cause them to rest in their own land: and the stranger bshall join him self unto them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jaakób.
2.And the people shall receive them and bring them to their own place, & the house of Israél shall possess them in the land of the Lord, for cservants & handmaids: & they shall take them prisoners, whose captives they were, & have rule over their oppressors.
3.¶ And in that day when the Lord shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the sore bondage, wherein thou didest serve,
4.Then shalt thou take up this proverb against the King of Babél, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased? and the gold thirsty Babél rested?
5.The Lord hath broken the rod of the wicked, and the scepter of the rulers:
6.Which smote the people in anger with a continual plague, and ruled the nations in wrath: if any were persecuted, he did dnot let.
7.The whole world is at erest and is quiet: they sing for joy.
8.Also the fir trees rejoiced of thee, and the cedars of Lebanón, saying, Since thou art laid down, no hewer came up against us.
9.Hell beneath is moved for thee to fmeet thee at thy coming, raising up the dead for thee, even all the princes of the earth, and hath raised from their thrones all the Kings of the nations.
10.All they shall cry, and say unto thee, Art thou become weak also as we? art thou become like unto us?
11.Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the sound of thy viols: the worm gis spread under thee, & the worms cover thee.
12.How art thou fallen from heaven, ô hLucifer, son of the morning? and cut down to the ground, which didest cast lots upon the nations?
13.Yet thou saidest in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, and exalt my throne above beside the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the Congregation in the sides of the iNorth.
14.I will ascend above the height of the clouds, and I will be like the most high.
15.But thou shalt be brought down to the grave, to the sides of the pit.
16.They that see thee, shall klook upon thee and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, and that did shake the kingdoms?
17.He made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof, and opened not lthe house of his prisoners.
18.All the Kings of the nations, even they all sleep in glory, every one in his own house.
19.But thou art mcast out of thy grave like an abonimable branch: like the raiment of those that are slain, and thrust through with a sword, which go down to the stones of the pit, as a carkeise trodden under feet.
20.Thou shalt not be joined with them in the grave, because thou hast destroyed thine own land, and slain thy people: the seed of the wicked shall not be renowned for ever.
21.nPrepare a slaughter for his children, for the iniquity of their fathers: let them not rise up nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with enemies.
22.¶ For I will rise up against them (saith the Lord of hostes) and will cut off from Babél the name and the remnant and the son, and the nephewe, saith the Lord:
23.And I will make it a possession to the ^hedgehog, and pools of water, and I will sweep it with the besome of destruction, saith the Lord of hostes.
24.The Lord of hostes hath sworn, saying, Surely like as I have purposed, so shall it come to pass, and as I have consulted, it shall stand:
25.oThat I will break to pieces Asshúr in my land, and upon my mountains will I tread him under foot: so that his yoke shall depart from pthem, and his burden shall be taken from off their shoulder.
26.This is the counsel that is consulted upon the whole world, and this is the hand stretched out over all the nations,
27.Because the Lord of hostes hath determined it, and who shall disannul it? & his hand is stretched out, & who shall turn it away?
28.¶ In the year that King Aház dyed, was this qburden.
29.Rejoice not, (thou whole rPalestina) because the rod of him that did beat thee, is broken: for out of the serpent’s root shall come forth a cockatrice, and the fruit thereof shalbe a fyrie flying serpent.
30.For the sfirst born of the poor shalbe fed, and the needy shall lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root with famine, and tit shall slay thy remnant.
31.Howle, ô gate, cry ô city: thou whole land of Palestina art dissolved, for there shall come form the uNorth a smoke, and none shalbe alone, xat his time appointed.
32.What shall then one answer ythe messengers of the Gentiles? That the Lord hath stablished zZion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it.

Notes

1-a.
He shows why God will hast to destroy his enemies to wit, because he will deliver his Church.
1-b.
Meaning, that the Gentiles shall be joined with the Church and worship God.
2-c.
Signifying that the Jews should be superiors to the Gentiles, and that they should be brought under the service of Christ by the preaching of the Apostles, whereby all are brought to the subjection of Christ, 2 Cor. 10.5.
6-d.
That is, he suffered all violence and injuries to be done.
7-e.
Meaning, that when tyrants reign, there can be no rest nor quietness, and also how detestable a thing tyranny is.
9-f.
As though they feared lest you should trouble the dead, as you did the living and here he derides the proud tyranny of the wicked, which knew not that all creatures wish their destruction that they may rejoice.
11-g.
Instead of your costly carpets and coverings.
12-h.
You that thought yourself most glorious, and as it were, placed in the heaven for the morning star, that goes before the sun, is called lucifer to whom Nebuchad-nezzer is compared.
13-i.
Meaning, Jerusalem, whereof the Temple was on the North side, as Ps. 48.2 whereby he means that tyrants fight against God, when they persecute his Church, and would set themselves in his place.
16-k.
In marveling at you.
17-l.
To set them at liberty noting his cruelty.
19-m.
You were not buried in the sepulchre of your fathers, your tyranny was so abhorred.
21-n.
He called to the Medes and Persians and all those that should execute God’s vengeance.
23-^.
Or, partridge.
25-o.
As I have begun to destroy the Assyrians in Saneherib, so will I continue, and destroy them wholly, when I shall deliver you from Babylon.
25-p.
From the Jews.
28-q.
Read Ch. 13.1.
29-r.
He wills the Philistims not to rejoice because the Jews are dimin-ished in their power for their strength shall be greater then ever it was.
30-s.
The Israelites, which were brought to most extreme misery.
30-t.
To wit, my people.
31-u.
That is, from the Jews, or Assyrians for they were both North from Palestina.
31-x.
But they shall be all ready, and join together.
32-y.
Which shall come to inquire of the state of the Church.
32-z.
They shall answer, that the Lord does defend his Church, and them that join themselves thereunto.