Isaiah 14
1 for to have compassion LORD [obj] Jacob and to choose still in/on/with Israel and to rest them upon land: soil their and to join [the] sojourner upon them and to attach upon house: household Jacob
For the LORD will have compassion on Jacob; once again He will choose Israel and settle them in their own land. The foreigner will join them and unite with the house of Jacob.
2 and to take: take them people and to come (in): bring them to(wards) place their and to inherit them house: household Israel upon land: soil LORD to/for servant/slave and to/for maidservant and to be to take captive to/for to take captive them and to rule in/on/with to oppress them
The nations will escort Israel and bring it to its homeland. Then the house of Israel will possess the nations as menservants and maidservants in the LORD’s land. They will make captives of their captors and rule over their oppressors.
3 and to be in/on/with day to rest LORD to/for you from pain your and from turmoil your and from [the] service [the] severe which to serve in/on/with you
On the day that the LORD gives you rest from your pain and torment, and from the hard labor into which you were forced,
4 and to lift: loud [the] proverb [the] this upon king Babylon and to say how? to cease to oppress to cease insolence
you will sing this song of contempt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has ceased, and how his fury has ended!
5 to break LORD tribe: rod wicked tribe: staff to rule
The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers.
6 to smite people in/on/with fury wound lest revolt to rule in/on/with face: anger nation persecution without to withhold
It struck the peoples in anger with unceasing blows; it subdued the nations in rage with relentless persecution.
7 to rest to quiet all [the] land: country/planet to break out cry
All the earth is at peace and at rest; they break out in song.
8 also cypress to rejoice to/for you cedar Lebanon from the past to lie down: lay down not to ascend: rise [the] to cut: cut upon us
Even the cypresses and cedars of Lebanon exult over you: “Since you have been laid low, no woodcutter comes against us.”
9 hell: Sheol from underneath: under to tremble to/for you to/for to encounter: meet to come (in): come you to rouse to/for you shade all goat land: country/planet to arise: raise from throne their all king nation (Sheol h7585)
Sheol beneath is eager to meet you upon your arrival. It stirs the spirits of the dead to greet you— all the rulers of the earth. It makes all the kings of the nations rise from their thrones. (Sheol h7585)
10 all their to answer and to say to(wards) you also you(m. s.) be weak: weak like us to(wards) us to liken
They will all respond to you, saying, “You too have become weak, as we are; you have become like us!”
11 to go down hell: Sheol (pride your *LA(bh)*) sound harp your underneath: under you to lay worm and covering your worm (Sheol h7585)
Your pomp has been brought down to Sheol, along with the music of your harps. Maggots are your bed and worms your blanket. (Sheol h7585)
12 how? to fall: fall from heaven Day Star son: child dawn to cut down/off to/for land: soil to weaken upon nation
How you have fallen from heaven, O day star, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, O destroyer of nations.
13 and you(m. s.) to say in/on/with heart your [the] heaven to ascend: rise from above to/for star God to exalt throne my and to dwell in/on/with mountain: mount meeting in/on/with flank Zaphon
You said in your heart: “I will ascend to the heavens; I will raise my throne above the stars of God. I will sit on the mount of assembly, in the far reaches of the north.
14 to ascend: rise upon high place cloud to resemble to/for Most High
I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.”
But you will be brought down to Sheol, to the lowest depths of the Pit. (Sheol h7585)
16 to see: see you to(wards) you to gaze to(wards) you to understand this [the] man to tremble [the] land: country/planet to shake kingdom
Those who see you will stare; they will ponder your fate: “Is this the man who shook the earth and made the kingdoms tremble,
17 to set: make world like/as wilderness and city his to overthrow prisoner his not to open house: home [to]
who turned the world into a desert and destroyed its cities, who refused to let the captives return to their homes?”
18 all king nation all their to lie down: lay down in/on/with glory man: anyone in/on/with house: home his
All the kings of the nations lie in state, each in his own tomb.
19 and you(m. s.) to throw from grave your like/as branch to abhor clothing to kill to pierce sword to go down to(wards) stone pit like/as corpse to trample
But you are cast out of your grave like a rejected branch, covered by those slain with the sword, and dumped into a rocky pit like a carcass trampled underfoot.
20 not be joined with them in/on/with tomb for land: country/planet your to ruin people your to kill not to call: call by to/for forever: enduring seed: children be evil
You will not join them in burial, since you have destroyed your land and slaughtered your own people. The offspring of the wicked will never again be mentioned.
21 to establish: prepare to/for son: child his slaughter in/on/with iniquity: guilt father their not to arise: rise and to possess: take land: country/planet and to fill face: surface world city
Prepare a place to slaughter his sons for the iniquities of their forefathers. They will never rise up to possess a land or cover the earth with their cities.
22 and to arise: rise upon them utterance LORD Hosts and to cut: eliminate to/for Babylon name and remnant and offspring and progeny utterance LORD
“I will rise up against them,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will cut off from Babylon her name and her remnant, her offspring and her posterity,”
23 and to set: make her to/for possession porcupine and pool water and to sweep her in/on/with broom to destroy utterance LORD Hosts
“I will make her a place for owls and for swamplands; I will sweep her away with the broom of destruction,” declares the LORD of Hosts.
24 to swear LORD Hosts to/for to say if: surely yes not like/as as which to resemble so to be and like/as as which to advise he/she/it to arise: establish
The LORD of Hosts has sworn: “Surely, as I have planned, so will it be; as I have purposed, so will it stand.
25 to/for to break Assyria in/on/with land: country/planet my and upon mountain: mount my to trample him and to turn aside: depart from upon them yoke his and burden his from upon shoulder his to turn aside: remove
I will break Assyria in My land; I will trample him on My mountain. His yoke will be taken off My people, and his burden removed from their shoulders.”
26 this [the] counsel [the] to advise upon all [the] land: country/planet and this [the] hand [the] to stretch upon all [the] nation
This is the plan devised for the whole earth, and this is the hand stretched out over all the nations.
27 for LORD Hosts to advise and who? to break and hand his [the] to stretch and who? to return: turn back her
The LORD of Hosts has purposed, and who can thwart Him? His hand is outstretched, so who can turn it back?
28 in/on/with year death [the] king Ahaz to be [the] oracle [the] this
In the year that King Ahaz died, this burden was received:
29 not to rejoice Philistia all your for to break tribe: staff to smite you for from root serpent to come out: come serpent and fruit his serpent to fly
Do not rejoice, all you Philistines, that the rod that struck you is broken. For a viper will spring from the root of the snake, and a flying serpent from its egg.
30 and to pasture firstborn poor and needy to/for security to stretch and to die in/on/with famine root your and remnant your to kill
Then the firstborn of the poor will find pasture, and the needy will lie down in safety, but I will kill your root by famine, and your remnant will be slain.
31 to wail gate to cry out city to melt Philistia all your for from north smoke to come (in): come and nothing be alone in/on/with ranks his
Wail, O gate! Cry out, O city! Melt away, all you Philistines! For a cloud of smoke comes from the north, and there are no stragglers in its ranks.
32 and what? to answer messenger nation for LORD to found Zion and in/on/with her to seek refuge afflicted people his
What answer will be given to the envoys of that nation? “The LORD has founded Zion, where His afflicted people will find refuge.”
