Isaiah 14:21

Isaiah 14:21

19 But you are cast out of your grave
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.

20 You will not be joined with them in burial,
Because you have destroyed your land
And slain your people.
^aThe brood of evildoers shall never be named.

21 Prepare slaughter for his children
^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

22 “For I will rise up against them,” says the Lord of hosts,
“And cut off from Babylon ^athe name and ^bremnant,
^cAnd offspring and posterity,” says the Lord.

23 “I will also make it a possession for the ^aporcupine,
And marshes of muddy water;
I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,” says the Lord of hosts.

Assyria Destroyed

24 The Lord of hosts has sworn, saying,
“Surely, as I have thought, so it shall come to pass,
And as I have purposed, so it shall ^astand:

25 That I will break the ^aAssyrian in My land,
And on My mountains tread him underfoot.
Then ^bhis yoke shall be removed from them,
And his burden removed from their shoulders.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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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.

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