For the LORD will ahave compassion on Jacob (the captives in Babylon) and will again bchoose Israel, and will settle them in their own land. cForeigners (Gentiles) will join them as proselytes and will attach themselves to the house of Jacob (Israel) . Esth 8:17Ps 102:13; Is 49:13, 15; 54:7, 8Is 41:8, 9; 44:1; 49:7; Zech 1:17; 2:12Is 56:3, 6; Eph 2:12-19 2 The peoples will take them along and bring them to their own place (Judea) , and the ahouse of Israel will possess them as an inheritance in the land of the LORD bas male and female servants; and they will take captive those whose captives they have been, and they will rule over their former oppressors. Ezra 1Is 45:14; 49:23; 54:3Is 60:10; 61:5; Dan 7:18, 27
3 And it will be in the day when the LORD gives you arest from your pain and turmoil and from the harsh service in which you have been enslaved,Ezra 9:8, 9; Is 11:10; 40:2; Jer 30:10; 46:27 4 that you will atake up this taunt against the king of Babylon, and say,“How bthe oppressor has ceased his insolence,And how the fury has ceased!Hab 2:6Is 9:4; 16:4; 49:26; 51:13; 54:14
5 “The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked,The scepter of the tyrant rulers6 aWhich used to strike the peoples in anger with incessant blows,Which subdued and ruled the nations in wrath with unrelenting persecution.Is 10:14; 47:67 “The whole earth is at rest and is quiet;They abreak into shouts of joy.Ps 47:1-3; 98:1-9; 126:1-38 “Even the acypress trees rejoice over you kings of Babylon, even the cedars of Lebanon, saying,‘Since you were laid low, no woodcutter comes up against us.’Is 55:12; Ezek 31:169 “1aSheol below is excited about you to meet you when you come you tyrant of Babylon;It stirs up the spirits of the dead to greet you, all the leaders of the earth;It raises all the kings of the nations from their thrones in astonishment at your fall.I.e. the nether world, the place of the dead, Hades.Is 5:1410 “aAll of them will respond tauntingly and say to you,‘You have become as weak as we are.You have become like us.Ezek 32:2111 ‘Your apomp and magnificence have been brought down to Sheol,Along with the music of your harps;The maggots which prey on the dead are spread out under you as a bedAnd worms are your covering Babylonian rulers.’Is 5:1412 “How you have afallen from heaven,O 1bstar of the morning light-bringer, son of the dawn!You have been cut down to the ground,You who have weakened the nations king of Babylon!Many students of the Bible have felt that the passage which follows applies to Satan (cf Luke 10:18). It is clear from the larger context that the passage addresses the king of Babylon, but that does not rule out a secondary reference to Satan. Many commentators are of the opinion that the arrogance expressed here is satanic, and that the passage correctly represents Satan’s attitude because he was working through the Babylonian ruler. The Hebrew for this expression is translated “Lucifer” (“light-bringer”) in The Latin Vulgate, and is translated this way in the King James Version. But because of the association of that name with Satan, it is not used in this and other translations. Some students feel that the application of the name Lucifer to Satan, in spite of the long and confident teaching to that effect, is erroneous. The application of the name to Satan has existed since the third century A.D., and is based on the supposition that Luke 10:18 is an explanation of Is 14:12, which many authorities believe is not true. “Lucifer,” the light-bringer, is the Latin equivalent of the Greek word “Phosphoros,” which is used as a title of Christ in 2 Pet 1:19 and corresponds to the name “radiant and brilliant Morning Star” in Rev 22:16, a name Jesus called Himself. This passage here in Is 14:12ff clearly applies to the king of Babylon.Is 34:4; Luke 10:18; Rev 8:10; 9:12 Pet 1:19; Rev 2:28; 22:1613 “But you said in your heart,‘I will aascend to heaven;I will braise my throne above the stars of God;I will sit on the mount of assemblyIn the remote parts of the north.Ezek 28:2Dan 5:22, 23; 8:10; 2 Thess 2:414 ‘I will ascend above the heights of the clouds;I will amake myself like the Most High.’Is 47:8; 2 Thess 2:415 “But in fact you awill be brought down to Sheol,To the remote recesses of the pit (the region of the dead) .Ezek 28:8; Matt 11:23; Luke 10:1516 “Those who see you will gaze at you,They will consider you, saying,‘Is this the man who made the earth tremble,Who shook kingdoms,17 Who made the world like a awildernessAnd overthrew its cities,Who bdid not permit his prisoners to return home?’Joel 2:3Is 45:1318 “All the kings of the nations, all of them lie dead in glorious array,Each one in his own sepulcher.19 “But you king of Babylon have been acast out of your tomb (denied burial)Like a rejected branch,Clothed with the slain who are pierced by the sword,Who go down to the stones of the bpit into which carcasses are thrown,Like a dead body ctrampled underfoot.Is 22:16-18Jer 41:7, 9Is 5:2520 “You will not be united with them in burial,Because you have destroyed your land,You have slain your people.May the adescendants of evildoers never be named!Job 18:16, 19; Ps 21:10; 37:28; Is 1:4; 31:221 “Prepare a slaughtering place for his sonsBecause of the awickedness the sin, the injustice, the wrongdoing of their fathers.They must not rise and take possession of the earth,And fill the face of the world with cities.”Ex 20:5; Lev 26:39; Is 13:16; Matt 23:35 22 “I will rise up against them,” says the LORD of hosts, “and will cut off from Babylon aname and survivors, and bson and grandson,” declares the LORD.Prov 10:7Job 18:19; Is 47:9 23 “I will also make Babylon a possession of the ahedgehog and of 1swamps of water, and I will sweep it away with the broom of bdestruction,” declares the LORD of hosts.The city of Babylon was in the middle of a very fertile area, and it would have seemed reasonable to suppose that, regardless of what happened to the population, the region would always furnish pasturage for flocks. But Isaiah said it would become the possession of wild animals and would be covered with “swamps of water.” This is how that prophecy was literally fulfilled: after Babylon was taken, the whole area around the city was put under water from neglect of the canals and dikes of the Euphrates River. It became stagnant “swamps of water” among ruins haunted by wild animals, proclaiming to any who might see it that it had happened just as the LORD intended (Is 14:24).Is 34:11; Zeph 2:141 Kin 14:10; Is 13:6
24 The LORD of hosts has sworn an oath, saying, “aJust as I have intended, so it has certainly happened, and just as I have planned, so it will stand—Job 23:13; Is 46:11; 55:8, 9; Acts 4:28 25 to abreak the Assyrian in My land, and on My mountains I will trample him underfoot. Then the Assyrian’s 1byoke will be removed from them (the people of Judah) and his burden removed from their shoulder.The prophecy against Assyria had actually by this time already been fulfilled, but Isaiah attached it to the as yet unfulfilled prophecy against Babylon as a pledge or guarantee of the fulfillment of the latter.Is 10:12; 30:31; 31:8Is 9:4; 10:27; Nah 1:13 26 This is the aplan of God decided for the whole earth regarded as conquered and put under tribute by Assyria; and this is the bhand of God that is stretched out over all the nations.Is 23:9; Zeph 3:6, 8Ex 15:12 27 For athe LORD of hosts has decided and planned, and who can annul it? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?”2 Chr 20:6; Is 43:13; Dan 4:31, 35
28 In the ayear that King Ahaz of Judah died this mournful, inspired boracle (1a burden to be carried) came:I.e. an urgent message the prophet is under compulsion to proclaim.2 Kin 16:20; 2 Chr 28:27Is 13:1
29 “Do not rejoice, O aPhilistia, any of you,Because the rod of Judah that bstruck you is broken;For out of the serpent’s root will come a cviper King Hezekiah of Judah,And its offspring will be a dflying serpent. 2+@Kin 18:1, 3, 8Is 2:6; 11:14; Jer 47:1-7; Ezek 25:15-17; Joel 3:4-8; Amos 1:6-8; Zeph 2:4-7; Zech 9:5-72 Chr 26:6Is 11:8Is 30:630 “The firstborn of the ahelpless of Judah will feed on My meadows,And the needy will lie down in safety;But I will kill your root with bfamine,And your survivors will be put to death.Is 3:14, 15; 7:21, 22; 11:4Is 8:21; 9:20; 51:1931 “Howl, O agate; cry, O city!Melt away, O bPhilistia, all of you;For smoke comes out of the cnorth,And dthere is no straggler in his ranks and no one stands detached in Hezekiah’s battalions.Is 3:26; 24:12; 45:2Is 14:29Jer 1:14Is 34:1632 “Then what answer will one give the amessengers of the Philistine nation?That bthe LORD has founded Zion,And the cafflicted of His people will seek and find refuge in it.”Is 37:9Ps 87:1, 5; 102:16; Is 28:16; 44:28; 54:11Is 4:6; 25:4; 57:13; Zeph 3:12; Heb 11:10; James 2:5