Search results for: Isaiah 8:14
Isaiah 14:4 (NIV)
you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has come to an end! How his fury has ended!
Isaiah 14:5 (NIV)
The Lord has broken the rod of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers,
Isaiah 14:6 (NIV)
which in anger struck down peoples with unceasing blows, and in fury subdued nations with relentless aggression.
Isaiah 14:7 (NIV)
All the lands are at rest and at peace; they break into singing.
Isaiah 14:8 (NIV)
Even the junipers and the cedars of Lebanon gloat over you and say, “Now that you have been laid low, no one comes to cut us down.”
Isaiah 14:9 (NIV)
The realm of the dead below is all astir to meet you at your coming; it rouses the spirits of the departed to greet you— all those who were leaders in the world; it makes them rise from their thrones— all those who were kings over the nations.
Isaiah 14:10 (NIV)
They will all respond, they will say to you, “You also have become weak, as we are; you have become like us.”
Isaiah 14:11 (NIV)
All your pomp has been brought down to the grave, along with the noise of your harps; maggots are spread out beneath you and worms cover you.
Isaiah 14:12 (NIV)
How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations!
Isaiah 14:13 (NIV)
You said in your heart, “I will ascend to the heavens; I will raise my throne above the stars of God; I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly, on the utmost heights of Mount Zaphon.
Isaiah 14:14 (NIV)
I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.”
Isaiah 14:15 (NIV)
But you are brought down to the realm of the dead, to the depths of the pit.
Isaiah 14:16 (NIV)
Those who see you stare at you, they ponder your fate: “Is this the man who shook the earth and made kingdoms tremble,
Isaiah 14:17 (NIV)
the man who made the world a wilderness, who overthrew its cities and would not let his captives go home?”
Isaiah 14:18 (NIV)
All the kings of the nations lie in state, each in his own tomb.
Isaiah 14:19 (NIV)
But you are cast out of your tomb like a rejected branch; you are covered with the slain, with those pierced by the sword, those who descend to the stones of the pit. Like a corpse trampled underfoot,
Isaiah 14:20 (NIV)
you will not join them in burial, for you have destroyed your land and killed your people. Let the offspring of the wicked never be mentioned again.
Isaiah 14:21 (NIV)
Prepare a place to slaughter his children for the sins of their ancestors; they are not to rise to inherit the land and cover the earth with their cities.
Isaiah 14:22 (NIV)
“I will rise up against them,” declares the Lord Almighty. “I will wipe out Babylon’s name and survivors, her offspring and descendants,” declares the Lord .
Isaiah 14:23 (NIV)
“I will turn her into a place for owls and into swampland; I will sweep her with the broom of destruction,” declares the Lord Almighty.
Isaiah 14:24 (NIV)
The Lord Almighty has sworn, “Surely, as I have planned, so it will be, and as I have purposed, so it will happen.
Isaiah 14:25 (NIV)
I will crush the Assyrian in my land; on my mountains I will trample him down. His yoke will be taken from my people, and his burden removed from their shoulders.”
Isaiah 14:26 (NIV)
This is the plan determined for the whole world; this is the hand stretched out over all nations.
Isaiah 14:27 (NIV)
For the Lord Almighty has purposed, and who can thwart him? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?
Isaiah 14:28 (NIV)
This prophecy came in the year King Ahaz died: