Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
staff—not the scepter (Psalms 2:9), but the staff with which one strikes others, as he is speaking of more tyrants than one (Isaiah 9:4; Isaiah 10:24; Isaiah 14:29) [MAURER].
rulers—tyrants, as the parallelism "the wicked" proves (compare see on Isaiah 13:2).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Isaiah 14:5:
Job 24:20
Isaiah 13:2
Isaiah 14:4
Jeremiah 48:17
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