Isaiah 14:32 - Prayer Tents

Now You Are Nothing

14But not so with Jacob. GOD will have compassion on Jacob. Once again he'll choose Israel. He'll establish them in their own country. Outsiders will be attracted and throw their lot in with Jacob.H3068H7355H3290H977H3478H3240H127H1616H3867H5596H1004H3290 2The nations among whom they lived will actually escort them back home, and then Israel will pay them back by making slaves of them, men and women alike, possessing them as slaves in GOD's country, capturing those who had captured them, ruling over those who had abused them.H5971H3947H935H4725H1004H3478H5157H127H3068H5650H8198H7617H7617H7287H5065 3When GOD has given you time to recover from the abuse and trouble and harsh servitude that you had to endure,H3117H3068H5117H6090H7267H7186H5656H5647 4you can amuse yourselves by taking up this satire, a taunt against the king of Babylon: Can you believe it? The tyrant is gone! The tyranny is over!H5375H4912H4428H894H559H5065H7673H4062H7673 5GOD has broken the rule of the wicked, the power of the bully-rulersH3068H7665H4294H7563H7626H4910 6That crushed many people. A relentless rain of cruel outrage Established a violent rule of anger rife with torture and persecution.H5221H5971H5678H1115H5627H4347H7287H1471H639H4783H1097H2820 7And now it's over, the whole earth quietly at rest. Burst into song! Make the rafters ring!H776H5117H8252H6476H7440 8Ponderosa pine trees are happy, giant Lebanon cedars are relieved, saying, "Since you've been cut down, there's no one around to cut us down."H1265H8055H730H3844H7901H3772H5927 9And the underworld dead are all excited, preparing to welcome you when you come. Getting ready to greet you are the ghostly dead, all the famous names of earth. All the buried kings of the nations will stand up on their thronesH7585H7264H7125H935H5782H7496H6260H776H6965H3678H4428H1471 10With well-prepared speeches, royal invitations to death: "Now you are as nothing as we are! Make yourselves at home with us dead folks!"H6030H559H2470H4911 11This is where your pomp and fine music led you, Babylon, to your underworld private chambers, A king-size mattress of maggots for repose and a quilt of crawling worms for warmth.H1347H3381H7585H1998H5035H7415H3331H8438H4374 12What a comedown this, O Babylon! Daystar! Son of Dawn! Flat on your face in the underworld mud, you, famous for flattening nations!H5307H8064H1966H1121H7837H3213H1438H776H2522H1471 13You said to yourself, "I'll climb to heaven. I'll set my throne over the stars of God. I'll run the assembly of angels that meets on sacred Mount Zaphon.H559H3824H5927H8064H7311H3678H4605H3556H410H3427H2022H4150H3411H6828 14I'll climb to the top of the clouds. I'll take over as King of the Universe!"H5927H1116H5645H1819H5945 15But you didn't make it, did you? Instead of climbing up, you came down— Down with the underground dead, down to the abyss of the Pit.H3381H7585H3411H953 16People will stare and muse: "Can this be the one Who terrorized earth and its kingdoms,H7200H7688H995H376H776H7264H7493H4467 17turned earth to a moonscape, Wasted its cities, shut up his prisoners to a living death?"H7760H8398H4057H2040H5892H6605H1004H615 18Other kings get a decent burial, honored with eulogies and placed in a tomb.H4428H1471H7901H3519H376H1004 19But you're dumped in a ditch unburied, like a stray dog or cat, Covered with rotting bodies, murdered and indigent corpses. Your dead body desecrated, mutilated—H7993H6913H8581H5342H3830H2026H2944H2719H3381H68H953H6297H947 20no state funeral for you! You've left your land in ruins, left a legacy of massacre. The progeny of your evil life will never be named. Oblivion!H3161H6900H7843H776H2026H5971H2233H7489H5769H7121 21Get a place ready to slaughter the sons of the wicked and wipe out their father's line. Unthinkable that they should own a square foot of land or desecrate the face of the world with their cities!H3559H4293H1121H5771H1H1077H6965H3423H776H4390H6440H8398H6145H5892 22"I will confront them"—Decree of GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies— "and strip Babylon of name and survivors, children and grandchildren.H6965H5002H3068H6635H3772H894H8034H7605H5209H5220H5002H3068 23" GOD's Decree. "I'll make it a worthless swamp and give it as a prize to the hedgehog. And then I'll bulldoze it out of existence." Decree of GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies.H7760H4180H7090H98H4325H2894H4292H8045H5002H3068H6635

Who Could Ever Cancel Such Plans?

24GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies speaks: "Exactly as I planned, it will happen. Following my blueprints, it will take shape.H3068H6635H7650H559H1819H3289H6965 25I will shatter the Assyrian who trespasses my land and stomp him into the dirt on my mountains. I will ban his taking and making of slaves and lift the weight of oppression from all shoulders."H7665H804H776H2022H947H5923H5493H5448H5493H7926 26This is the plan, planned for the whole earth, And this is the hand that will do it, reaching into every nation.H6098H3289H776H3027H5186H1471 27GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies has planned it. Who could ever cancel such plans? His is the hand that's reached out. Who could brush it aside?H3068H6635H3289H6565H3027H5186H7725 28In the year King Ahaz died, this Message came:H8141H4428H271H4194H4853 29Hold it, Philistines! It's too soon to celebrate the defeat of your cruel oppressor. From the death throes of that snake a worse snake will come, and from that, one even worse.H8055H6429H7626H5221H7665H5175H8328H3318H6848H6529H8314H5774H8314 30The poor won't have to worry. The needy will escape the terror. But you Philistines will be plunged into famine, and those who don't starve, God will kill.H1060H1800H7462H34H7257H983H4191H8328H7458H2026H7611 31Wail and howl, proud city! Fall prostrate in fear, Philistia! On the northern horizon, smoke from burned cities, the wake of a brutal, disciplined destroyer.H3213H8179H2199H5892H6429H4127H935H6828H6227H909H4151 32What does one say to outsiders who ask questions? Tell them, "GOD has established Zion. Those in need and in trouble find refuge in her."H6030H4397H1471H3068H3245H6726H6041H5971H2620