E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 14:5
wicked = lawless ones (plural) Hebrew. rasha'. App-44 . read more
Isaiah 14:3-7 Asv
E.W. Bullinger
E.W. Bullinger
E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 14:6
continual = unremitting. ruled the nations = trod down nations. is persecuted, and none hindereth = with an unsparing persecution. read more
E.W. Bullinger
E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 14:7
break forth into singing. This word (Hebrew. pazah) occurs once in the "former" portion (here), and five times in the "latter" portion (Isaiah 44:23 ; Isaiah 49:13 ; Isaiah 52:9 ; Isaiah 54:1 ; Isaiah 55:12 ). See App-92 . read more
James Burton Coffman
Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Isaiah 14:3
"And it shall come to pass in the day that Jehovah shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy trouble, and from the hard service wherein thou wast made to serve, that thou shalt take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and shall say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased! Jehovah hath broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers; that smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, that ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that none... read more
Thomas Coke
Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 14:4-7
Isaiah 14:4-7. 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, Isa 14:4-21 and of Babylon itself, Isaiah 14:22-23. The prophet introduces his prediction concerning the fall of the kings of Babylon by a poetic or dramatic song, in which the church congratulates herself and all other people on this event: in this song he elegantly represents, as in a scene, various persons speaking; as, first, the... read more
Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 14:3
3. rest— (Isaiah 28:12; Ezekiel 28:25; Ezekiel 28:26). Ezekiel 28:26- :. A CHORUS OF JEWS EXPRESS THEIR JOYFUL SURPRISE AT BABYLON'S DOWNFALL. The whole earth rejoices; the cedars of Lebanon taunt him. read more
Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 14:4
4. proverb—The Orientals, having few books, embodied their thoughts in weighty, figurative, briefly expressed gnomes. Here a taunting song of triumph (Micah 2:4; Habakkuk 2:6). the king—the ideal representative of Babylon; perhaps Belshazzar (Habakkuk 2:6- :). The mystical Babylon is ultimately meant. golden city—rather, "the exactress of gold" [MAURER]. But the old translators read differently in the Hebrew, "oppression," which the parallelism favors (compare Habakkuk 2:6- :). read more
Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 14:5
5. staff—not the scepter ( :-), 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 14:29- :). read more
Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 14:6
6. people—the peoples subjected to Babylon. is persecuted—the Hebrew is rather, active, "which persecuted them, without any to hinder him" [Vulgate, JEROME, and HORSLEY]. read more
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E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 14:4
take up this proverb. Reference to Pentateuch (Numbers 23:7 , Numbers 23:24 ; Numbers 24:3 , Numbers 24:15 , Numbers 24:20 , Numbers 24:21 , Numbers 24:23 ). Elsewhere only in Micah 2:4 .Habakkuk 2:6 , and Job 27:1 ; Job 29:1 . proverb = triumph-song. king of Babylon. Figure of speech Polyonymia . One of the names for the Antichrist. See note on Daniel 7:8 . How. ! Figure of speech Chleuasmos. App-6 . golden city: or exactress of gold. Some, by reading (= R) for (= D) read "oppression". read more