Like an1 abominable branch,
Like the garment of those who are slain,
1Thrust through with a sword,
Who go down to the stones of the pit,
Like a corpse trodden underfoot.
Because you have destroyed your land
And slain your people.
aThe brood of evildoers shall never be named.
aBecause of the iniquity of their fathers,
Lest they rise up and possess the land,
And fill the face of the world with cities.”
Babylon Destroyed
“And cut off from Babylon athe name and bremnant,
cAnd offspring and posterity,” says the Lord.
And marshes of muddy water;
I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,” says the Lord of hosts.
Assyria Destroyed
“Surely, as I have thought, so it shall come to pass,
And as I have purposed, so it shall astand:
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Isaiah 14:21
GOD'S DETERMINATION TO DESTROY BABYLON. (Isaiah 14:21-23)
Prepare, etc.—charge to the Medes and Persians, as if they were God's conscious instruments.
his children—Belshazzar's (Exodus 20:5).
rise—to occupy the places of their fathers.
fill . . . with cities—MAURER translates, "enemies," as the Hebrew means in I Samuel 28:16; Psalms 139:20; namely, lest they inundate the world with their armies. VITRINGA translates, "disturbers." In English Version the meaning is, "lest they fill the land with such cities" of pride as Babylon was.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Isaiah 14:21:
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