Isaiah 14:1-32 ESV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 14:1-3

This comes in here as the reason why Babylon must be overthrown and ruined, because God has mercy in store for his people, and therefore, 1. The injuries done to them must be reckoned for and revenged upon their persecutors. Mercy to Jacob will be wrath and ruin to Jacob's impenitent implacable adversaries, such as Babylon was. 2. The yoke of oppression which Babylon had long laid on their necks must be broken off, and they must be set at liberty; and, in order to this, the destruction of... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 14:4-23

The kings of Babylon, successively, were the great enemies and oppressors of God's people, and therefore the destruction of Babylon, the fall of the king, and the ruin of his family, are here particularly taken notice of and triumphed in. In the day that God has given Israel rest they shall take up this proverb against the king of Babylon. We must not rejoice when our enemy falls, as ours; but when Babylon, the common enemy of God and his Israel, sinks, then rejoice over her, thou heaven, and... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 14:24-32

The destruction of Babylon and the Chaldean empire was a thing at a great distance; the empire had not risen to any considerable height when its fall was here foretold: it was almost 200 years from this prediction of Babylon's fall to the accomplishment of it. Now the people to whom Isaiah prophesied might ask, ?What is this to us, or what shall we be the better for it, and what assurance shall we have of it?? To both questions he answers in these verses, by a prediction of the ruin both of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 14:1

For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, will yet choose Israel ,.... While the Jews were in captivity, the Lord seemed to have no pity for them, or compassion on them, and it looked as if he had rejected them, and wholly cast them off; but by delivering them from thence, he showed that he had a merciful regard unto them, and made it to appear that they were his chosen people, and beloved by him: and this is a reason why Babylon should be destroyed, and her destruction be no longer deferred,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 14:2

And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place ,.... That is, the people among whom the Jews dwelt in Babylon, who had a kindness for them, and especially such of them as were proselyted to their religion should attend them in their journey home, and supply them with all necessaries for provision and carriage, as they were allowed to do by the edict of Cyrus, Ezra 1:4 and this will have a further accomplishment in the latter day, when the Gentiles shall bring their sons and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 14:3

And it shall come to pass in the day that the Lord shall give thee rest from thy sorrow ,.... In captivity, and on account of that, being out of their own land, deprived of the free exercise of their religion, and at a distance from the house of God, and continually hearing the reproaches and blaspheming of the enemy, and seeing their idolatrous practices, and their ungodly conversation; all which must create sorrow of heart to the sincere lovers and worshippers of God: and from thy fear ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 14:4

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 Babylon, it seems best not to interpret it of Nebuchadnezzar, whom Jerom mentions, in whom the empire was in its greatest glory: but of Belshazzar, in whom it ended; the king of Babylon may be here considered as a type of antichrist, and what is said of the one may be applied to the other: the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 14:5

The Lord hath broken the staff of the wicked ,.... This is an answer to the above question, how the exactor and his tribute came to cease; this was not by man, but by the Lord himself; for though he made use of Cyrus, the work was his own, he broke the power of the wicked kings of Babylon: and the sceptre of the rulers ; that were under the king of Babylon; or of the several kings themselves, Nebuchadnezzar, Evilmerodach, and Belshazzar; so Kimchi interprets it. This may be applied to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 14:6

He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke ,.... The king of Babylon, who made war with the people and nations of the earth, and conquered them, smote them with the edge of the sword to gratify his passions, and satiate his bloodthirsty mind; and those that were spared, he ruled with rigour, and oppressed them with tribute and hard bondage; and, when he had conquered one nation, attacked another, and so went on pursuing his victories without intermission, giving no respite... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 14:7

The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet ,.... The troubler of them being gone; and which will be the ease of the people of God, who in the latter day will fill the face of the earth, when the beast and false prophet will be taken and cast alive into the lake of fire; and especially when Satan shall be bound, and put in prison for a thousand years, that he may deceive the nations no more, Revelation 19:20 , they break forth into singing ; that is, the inhabitants of the earth,... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 14:1-3

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 14:4-23

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 14:24-32

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 14:1

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 14:2

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 14:3

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 14:4

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 14:5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 14:6

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 14:7

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