that you will (A)take up this [a]taunt against the king of Babylon, and say,

“How (B)the oppressor has ceased,
And how the [b]onslaught has ceased!
The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked,
The scepter of rulers,
(C)Which used to strike the peoples in fury with unceasing strokes,
Which [c]subdued the nations in anger with unrestrained persecution.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 14:4 Or proverb
  2. Isaiah 14:4 As in DSS and ancient versions; MT uncertain
  3. Isaiah 14:6 Or ruled

Babylon Will Be Judged

12 ‘Then it will be (A)when seventy years are completed I will (B)punish the king of Babylon and that nation,’ declares the Lord, ‘for their wrongdoing, and the land of the Chaldeans; and (C)I will make it an everlasting desolation.

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