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Isaiah 14:4-21

b 21. The song of triumph over the king of Babylon is one of the finest specimens of Hebrew poetry which the Old Testament contains. A division into five strophes, each containing seven long lines, is distinctly recognisable, and the occasional deviations from strict symmetry of form are probably due to defects in the text.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 14:4. _THIS PROVERB_ - "This parable"] משל _mashal_, I take this to be the general name for poetic style among the Hebrews, including every sort of it, as ranging under one or other, or...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THAT THOU SHALT TAKE UP - Thou shalt utter, declare, or commence. The word ‘take up,’ is used in the sense of utter, speak, or declare, in Exodus 20:7; Exodus 23:1; Psalms 15:2....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 14 Israel's Restoration and Blessing After Babylon is Fallen and the Burden of Philistia 1. _Israel's restoration and exaltation (Isaiah 14:1)_ 2. _The proverb against the king of Babylon (Is...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    ISAIAH 13:1 TO ISAIAH 14:23. THE UTTER RUIN OF BABYLON AND TRIUMPHAL ODE OVER HER MONARCH'S DEATH. Historical conditions are here presupposed entirely different from those of Isaiah's time. The subjec...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    TAKE UP THIS PROVERB. Reference to Pentateuch (Numbers 23:7; Numbers 23:24; Numbers 24:3; Numbers 24:15;...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THOU SHALT TAKE UP THIS PROVERB— The latter member of this discourse is employed in a figurative enarration of the fall of the kings of Babylon, Isaiah 14:4 and of Babylon itself, Isaiah 14:22. The pr...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    CHAPTER FOURTEEN 2. BABYLON (Continued) a. DESPISED TEXT: Isaiah 14:1-11 1 For Jehovah will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land; and the sojourner...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased! -A CHORUS OF JEWS EXPRESS THEIR JOYFUL SURPRISE AT BABYLON'S DOWNFA...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    PROVERB] RV 'parable' (Habakkuk 2:6), or 'taunting-song.' THE KING] Nabonidus was king of Babylon from 555 till its fall 549 b.c. GOLDEN CITY] rather, RM, 'exactress,' or 'raging one.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE JUDGMENT OF BABYLON AND ITS KING This is the first of a series of prophecies dealing mainly with foreign nations. Its subject is Babylon, where the Jews are represented as undergoing exile, from w...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1. STRANGERS] The thought of the voluntary adhesion of strangers is prominent in the later Chapter s of the book (Isaiah 44:5; Isaiah 55:5; Isaiah 60:5)....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S PLANS FOR JUDAH, ASSYRIA AND EGYPT ISAIAH CHAPTER S 10 TO 20 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 14 THE *LORD’S PEOPLE WILL COME HOME V1 The *Lord will pity the peo...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THAT THOU SHALT TAKE UP THIS PROVERB AGAINST THE KING OF BABYLON. — The prophet appears once more (comp. Isaiah 5:1; Isaiah 12:1) in his character as a psalmist. In the _mashal_ or _taunting-song_ tha...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ נָשָׂ֜אתָ הַ מָּשָׁ֥ל הַ זֶּ֛ה עַל

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    BOOK 5 PROPHECIES NOT RELATING TO ISAIAH'S TIME In the first thirty-nine Chapter s of the Book of Isaiah-the half which refers to the prophet's own career and the politics contemporary with that - we...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XXVII BABYLON AND LUCIFER DATE UNCERTAIN Isaiah 13:1; Isaiah 14:1 THIS double oracle is against the City Isaiah 13:2; I

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Anticipating the great day of restoration, the prophet puts into the mouth of Israel the great parable or song which celebrates the downfall of Assyria. This moves in five distinct strophes. In the fi...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Parable. Septuagint, Greek: threnon. "Lamentation." (Haydock) --- Or mournful canticle._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I do not interrupt the reading through this long chain of the most wonderful events, because it forms one grand whole. The destruction which will ultimately fall upon the enemies of God and of his Chr...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    4._Then thou shalt take up this saying. _(213) By the term _witty saying_, or _parable_, (for the Hebrew word משל (_mashal_) denotes “sayings that are weighty and remarkable, and worthy of being obser...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 13 AND 14. With chapter 12 one division of the whole book closes. That which commences with chapter 13 continues to the end of chapter 27, which describes th...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THAT THOU SHALL TAKE UP THIS PROVERB AGAINST THE KING OF BABYLON,.... Or "concerning" him, his fall, and the fall of the Babylonish monarchy with him; if we understand this of any particular king of B...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased! Ver. 4. _That thou shalt take up this proverb._] Or, Taunting speech;...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _And in the day that the Lord shall give thee rest from thy sorrow_ From thy grief, fear, and the hard bondage of former times; _wherein thou wast made to serve_ According to the pleasure of thy cruel...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE DELIVERANCE OF ISRAEL...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    that thou shalt take up this proverb, a song of triumph, AGAINST THE KING OF BABYLON AND SAY, HOW HATH THE OPPRESSOR CEASED! THE GOLDEN CITY CEASED! literally, "Ended is the driving despot, ended the...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    PROVERB: Or, Taunting speech GOLDEN CITY CEASED?: Or, exactresse of gold...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-23 The whole plan of Divine Providence is arranged with a view to the good of the people of God. A settlement in the land of promise is of God's mercy. Let the church receive those whom God receive...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    SHALT TAKE UP into thy mouth, as it is fully expressed, PSALMS 50:16. HOW HATH THE OPPRESSOR CEASED! this is spoken by way of astonishment and triumph. Who would have thought this possible? THE GOLDEN...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 14:4 up H5375 (H8804) proverb H4912 king H4428 Babylon H894 say H559 (H8804) oppressor H5065 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE DEMISE OF BABYLON AND HUMILIATION OF ITS BOASTFUL KINGS (ISAIAH 14:3). The coming of the Babylonian ambassadors to Hezekiah had had a profound influence on Isaiah. As he thought on the future, wit...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Isaiah 14:1. _For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jaco...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Christ's Kingdom set up on earth with Israel restored, the Beast of hell. Satan's fall and doom. Babylon's final judgment. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: It is the comfort of God's people tha...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Isaiah 14:1. _And set them in their own land._ This prediction is so correct, as appears from the books of Nehemiah and Ezra, that no man can doubt the truth of prophecy; and its literal accomplishmen...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Thou shalt take up this proverb against the King of Babylon_ THE “PROVERB AGAINST THE KING OF BABYLON” Lowth is generally thought not to speak with exaggeration when he calls it the finest [song] o...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 14:4 THE KING OF BABYLON. The royal figure, personifying Babylonian arrogance, is taunted by his victims, not immortalized through the praises of his admirers....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    THE JOY OF SALVATION Isaiah 14:3. _And it shall come to pass in the day, &c._ In these verses is described the feeling of relief and joy of Israel in view of release from the Babylonish captivity. So...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION ISAIAH 14:1 THE RESTORATION OF ISRAEL, AND HER SONG OF TRIUMPH OVER BABYLON. The destruction of Babylon is to be followed by the restoration of Israel, with the good w

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob (Isaiah 14:1...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Chronicles 36:18; Daniel 2:38; Daniel 7:19; Ezekiel 5:15; Ha

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Golden city — As they used to call themselves; which therefore he expresses here in a word of their own language....

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