Isaiah 14

Revised Geneva Translation

14 For the LORD will have compassion on Jacob, and will still choose Israel, and cause them to rest in their own land. And the stranger shall join himself to them. And they shall cling to the House of Jacob.

² And the people shall receive them and bring them to their own place. And the House of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD, for servants and handmaids. And they shall take them prisoners, whose captives they were, and rule over their oppressors.

³ And on that day when the LORD shall give you rest from your sorrow and from your fear and from the sore bondage in which you served,

⁴ then you shall take up this Proverb against the king of Babel, and say, “How has the oppressor ceased and the gold-thirsty rested?

⁵ “The LORD has broken the rod of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers,

⁶ “who struck the people in anger with a continual plague, ruled the nations in wrath, persecuted and were not hindered.

⁷ “The whole world is at rest and is quiet. They sing for joy.

⁸ Also, the fir trees rejoiced in You, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, “Since you were put down, no hewer came up against us.”

⁹ “Hell beneath is moved for you to meet you at your coming, raising up the dead for you, all the princes of the Earth, and has raised from their thrones all the kings of the Nations.

¹⁰ “All they shall cry and say to you, ‘Have you become as weak as us? Have you become like us?

¹¹ ‘Your pomp is brought down to the grave and the sound of the strings. The worm is spread under you. And the worms cover you.’

¹² “How have you fallen from Heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning, cut down to the ground which casts lots upon the Nations?

¹³ “Yet you said in your heart, ‘I will ascend into Heaven and exalt my throne above beside the stars of God. I will also sit upon the Mount of the Congregation, on the sides of the North.

¹⁴ ‘I will ascend above the height of the clouds. I will be like the Most High.’

¹⁵ “But you shall be brought down to the grave, to the side of the pit.

¹⁶ “Those who see you shall look upon you and consider you, saying, ‘Is this the man who made the Earth tremble, that shook the kingdoms?

¹⁷ ‘He made the world as a wilderness, destroyed its cities and did not open the house of his prisoners.’

¹⁸ “All the kings of the Nations, they all sleep in glory, everyone in his own house.

¹⁹ “But you are cast out of your grave like an abominable branch, the clothing of those who are killed, thrust through with a sword, which go down to the stones of the pit as a carcass trodden under foot.

²⁰ “You shall not be joined with them in the grave because you have destroyed your own land, killed your people. The seed of the wicked shall not be renowned forever.

²¹ “Prepare a slaughter for his children, for the iniquity of their fathers. Let them not rise up or possess the land, or fill the face of the world with enemies.

²² “For I will rise up against them,” says the LORD of Hosts, “and will cut off the name and the remnant and the son and the nephew from Babel,” says the LORD.

²³ “And I will make it a possession to the hedgehog, and pools of waste. And I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,” says the LORD of Hosts.

²⁴ The LORD of Hosts has sworn, saying, “Surely, just as I have purposed, so shall it come to pass. And as I have consulted, it shall stand:

²⁵ “That I will break Assyria to pieces in My land. And upon My mountains I will tread him under Foot. So that his yoke shall depart from them, 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 Hosts has determined. And who shall annul? His Hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back?”

²⁸ In the year that King Ahaz died, was this burden.

²⁹ “Do not rejoice, all you of Philistia, because the rod of him who beat you is broken. For out of the serpent’s root shall come forth a viper, and its fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.

³⁰ “For the firstborn of the poor shall be fed, and the needy shall lie down in safety. And I will kill your root with famine. And it shall kill your remnant.

³¹ “Howl, O gate! Cry, O city! All of Philistia is dissolved! For a smoke shall come from the north. And no one shall be alone at his appointed time.”

³² What, then, shall one answer the messengers of the Gentiles: that the LORD has established Zion, and the poor of His people shall trust in it.