Isaiah 14 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021(NRSVUE)

Isaiah 14Restoration of Judah

1 as male and female slaves in the Lord’s land; they will take captive those who were their captors and rule over those who oppressed them.

Downfall of the King of Babylon

3 has ceased!

5The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked,

the scepter of rulers,

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clothed with the dead, those pierced by the sword,

who go down to the stones of the Pit

like a corpse trampled underfoot.

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Let them never rise to possess the earth

or cover the face of the world with cities.

22 and pools of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction, says the Lord of hosts.

An Oracle concerning Assyria

24 will graze

and the needy lie down in safety,

but I will make your root die of famine,

and your remnant I will kill.

31 v 29 ; Isa 3.26; 34.16; Jer 1.14Wail, O gate; cry, O city;

melt in fear, O Philistia, all of you!

For smoke comes out of the north,

and there is no straggler in its ranks.

32 Ps 87.1, 5; Isa 37.9; Zeph 3.12; Zech 11.11 What will one answer the messengers of the nation?

“The Lord has founded Zion,

and the needy among his people

will find refuge in her.”