Isaiah 14:32 - Prayer Tents

Israel’s Taunt

14When the LORD will have compassion on Jacob, and again choose Israel, and settle them in their own land, then strangers will join them and attach themselves to the house of Jacob.H3068H7355H3290H977H3478H3240H127H1616H3867H5596H1004H3290

2And the peoples will take them along and bring them to their place, and the house of Israel will possess them as an inheritance in the land of the LORD as male servants and female servants; and they will take their captors captive, and will rule over their oppressors.H5971H3947H935H4725H1004H3478H5157H127H3068H5650H8198H7617H7617H7287H5065

3And it will be in the day when the LORD gives you rest from your pain and turmoil and harsh service in which you have been enslaved,H3117H3068H5117H6090H7267H7186H5656H5647

4that you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon, and say, "How the oppressor has ceased, [And how] fury has ceased!H5375H4912H4428H894H559H5065H7673H4062H7673

5"The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, The scepter of rulersH3068H7665H4294H7563H7626H4910

6Which used to strike the peoples in fury with unceasing strokes, Which subdued the nations in anger with unrestrained persecution.H5221H5971H5678H1115H5627H4347H7287H1471H639H4783H1097H2820

7"The whole earth is at rest [and] is quiet; They break forth into shouts of joy.H776H5117H8252H6476H7440

8"Even the cypress trees rejoice over you, [and] the cedars of Lebanon, [saying,] 'Since you were laid low, no [tree] cutter comes up against us.'H1265H8055H730H3844H7901H3772H5927

9"Sheol from beneath is excited over you to meet you when you come; It arouses for you the spirits of the dead, all the leaders of the earth; It raises all the kings of the nations from their thrones.H7585H7264H7125H935H5782H7496H6260H776H6965H3678H4428H1471

10"They will all respond and say to you, 'Even you have been made weak as we, You have become like us.H6030H559H2470H4911

11'Your pomp [and] the music of your harps Have been brought down to Sheol; Maggots are spread out [as your bed] beneath you, And worms are your covering.'H1347H3381H7585H1998H5035H7415H3331H8438H4374

12"How you have fallen from heaven, O star of the morning, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the earth, You who have weakened the nations!H5307H8064H1966H1121H7837H3213H1438H776H2522H1471

13"But you said in your heart, 'I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throne above the stars of God, And I will sit on the mount of assembly In the recesses of the north.H559H3824H5927H8064H7311H3678H4605H3556H410H3427H2022H4150H3411H6828

14'I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.'H5927H1116H5645H1819H5945

15"Nevertheless you will be thrust down to Sheol, To the recesses of the pit.H3381H7585H3411H953

16"Those who see you will gaze at you, They will ponder over you, [saying,] 'Is this the man who made the earth tremble, Who shook kingdoms,H7200H7688H995H376H776H7264H7493H4467

17Who made the world like a wilderness And overthrew its cities, Who did not allow his prisoners to [go] home? 'H7760H8398H4057H2040H5892H6605H1004H615

18"All the kings of the nations lie in glory, Each in his own tomb.H4428H1471H7901H3519H376H1004

19"But you have been cast out of your tomb Like a rejected branch, Clothed with the slain who are pierced with a sword, Who go down to the stones of the pit, Like a trampled corpse.H7993H6913H8581H5342H3830H2026H2944H2719H3381H68H953H6297H947

20"You will not be united with them in burial, Because you have ruined your country, You have slain your people. May the offspring of evildoers not be mentioned forever.H3161H6900H7843H776H2026H5971H2233H7489H5769H7121

21"Prepare for his sons a place of slaughter Because of the iniquity of their fathers. They must not arise and take possession of the earth And fill the face of the world with cities."H3559H4293H1121H5771H1H1077H6965H3423H776H4390H6440H8398H6145H5892

22"And I will rise up against them," declares the LORD of hosts, " and will cut off from Babylon name and survivors, offspring and posterity, " declares the LORD.H6965H5002H3068H6635H3772H894H8034H7605H5209H5220H5002H3068

23"I will also make it a possession for the hedgehog, and swamps of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction," declares the LORD of hosts.H7760H4180H7090H98H4325H2894H4292H8045H5002H3068H6635

Judgment on Assyria

24The LORD of hosts has sworn saying, "Surely, just as I have intended so it has happened, and just as I have planned so it will stand,H3068H6635H7650H559H1819H3289H6965

25to break Assyria in My land, and I will trample him on My mountains. Then his yoke will be removed from them, and his burden removed from their shoulder.H7665H804H776H2022H947H5923H5493H5448H5493H7926

26"This is the plan devised against the whole earth; and this is the hand that is stretched out against all the nations.H6098H3289H776H3027H5186H1471

27"For the LORD of hosts has planned, and who can frustrate [it]? And as for His stretched-out hand, who can turn it back?"H3068H6635H3289H6565H3027H5186H7725

28In the year that King Ahaz died this oracle came:H8141H4428H271H4194H4853

Judgment on Philistia

29"Do not rejoice, O Philistia, all of you, Because the rod that struck you is broken; For from the serpent's root a viper will come out, And its fruit will be a flying serpent.H8055H6429H7626H5221H7665H5175H8328H3318H6848H6529H8314H5774H8314

30"And those who are most helpless will eat, And the needy will lie down in security; I will destroy your root with famine, And it will kill off your survivors.H1060H1800H7462H34H7257H983H4191H8328H7458H2026H7611

31"Wail, O gate; cry, O city; Melt away, O Philistia, all of you; For smoke comes from the north, And there is no straggler in his ranks.H3213H8179H2199H5892H6429H4127H935H6828H6227H909H4151

32"How then will one answer the messengers of the nation? That the LORD has founded Zion, And the afflicted of His people will seek refuge in it."H6030H4397H1471H3068H3245H6726H6041H5971H2620