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Isaiah 14:10

They all make answer and say to you, Have you become feeble like us? have you been made even as we are?

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Babylon;   Isaiah;   Rulers;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Babylon;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Babylon;   Funeral;   Nebuchadnezzar;   Sheol;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Hades;   Hell;   Kill, Killing;   Sheol;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Death;   Isaiah, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Judgment Damnation;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Babylon ;   Type;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Medes;   Paradise;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Isa'iah, Book of;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Belshazzar;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Death;   Isaiah;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Satire;   Sheol;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
They all respond to you, saying,“You too have become as weak as we are;you have become like us!
Hebrew Names Version
All they shall answer and tell you, Are you also become weak as we? are you become like us?
King James Version
All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?
English Standard Version
All of them will answer and say to you: ‘You too have become as weak as we! You have become like us!'
New American Standard Bible
"They will all respond and say to you, 'Even you have become weak as we, You have become like us.
New Century Version
All these leaders will make fun of you and will say, "Now you are weak, as we are. Now you are just like us."
Amplified Bible
"All of them will respond [tauntingly] and say to you, 'You have become as weak as we are. You have become like us.
World English Bible
All they shall answer and tell you, Are you also become weak as we? are you become like us?
Geneva Bible (1587)
All they shall crie, and saie vnto thee, Art thou become weake also as we? art thou become like vnto vs?
Legacy Standard Bible
They will all answer and say to you,‘Even you have been made weak as we,You have become like us.
Berean Standard Bible
They will all respond and say to you, "You too have become weak as we are; you have become like us!"
Contemporary English Version
Each one of them will say, "Now you are just as weak as any of us!
Complete Jewish Bible
They all greet you with these words: ‘Now you are as weak as we are, you have become like us!
Darby Translation
All of them shall answer and say unto thee, Art thou also become powerless as we; art thou become like unto us!
Easy-to-Read Version
They will make fun of you, saying, "Now you are as dead as we are. Now you are just like us."
George Lamsa Translation
All the kings of the nations shall answer and say to you, Are you also become weak as we? Are you become like us?
Good News Translation
They all call out to him, ‘Now you are as weak as we are! You are one of us!
Lexham English Bible
All of them will respond and say to you, ‘You yourself also were made weak like us! You have become the same as us!'
Literal Translation
All of them shall answer and say to you, Are you also made as weak as we? Are you likened to us?
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
that they maye all (one after another) synge and speake vnto the. Art thou wounded also as we? art thou become like vnto vs?
American Standard Version
All they shall answer and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?
JPS Old Testament (1917)
All they do answer and say unto thee: 'Art thou also become weak as we? Art thou become like unto us?
King James Version (1611)
All they shall speake and say vnto thee; Art thou also become weake as we? art thou become like vnto vs?
Bishop's Bible (1568)
That they may all aunswere and speake vnto thee, Art thou become weake also as we? Art thou become lyke vnto vs?
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
All shall answer and say to thee, Thou also hast been taken, even as we; and thou art numbered amongst us.
English Revised Version
All they shall answer and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Alle thei schulen answere, and thei shulen seie to thee, And thou art woundid as and we, thou art maad lijk vs.
Update Bible Version
They shall all answer and say to you, Have you also become weak as we? have you become like us?
Webster's Bible Translation
All they shall speak and say to thee, Art thou also become weak as we? Art thou become like us?
New English Translation
All of them respond to you, saying: ‘You too have become weak like us! You have become just like us!
New King James Version
They all shall speak and say to you: "Have you also become as weak as we? Have you become like us?
New Living Translation
With one voice they all cry out, ‘Now you are as weak as we are!
New Life Bible
All of them will speak and say to you, ‘Even you have become as weak as we. You have become like us.
New Revised Standard
All of them will speak and say to you: "You too have become as weak as we! You have become like us!"
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
All of them, answer, and say to thee, - Thou too, made strengthless, as we! Unto us, art thou like!
Douay-Rheims Bible
All shall answer, and say to thee: Thou also art wounded as well as we, thou art become like unto us.
Revised Standard Version
All of them will speak and say to you: 'You too have become as weak as we! You have become like us!'
Young's Literal Translation
All of them answer and say unto thee, Even thou hast become weak like us! Unto us thou hast become like!
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"They will all respond and say to you, 'Even you have been made weak as we, You have become like us.

Contextual Overview

4 That you will take up this bitter song against the king of Babylon, and say, How has the cruel overseer come to an end! He who was lifted up in pride is cut off; 5 The stick of the evil-doers, the rod of the rulers, is broken by the Lord; 6 He whose rod was on the peoples with an unending wrath, ruling the nations in passion, with an uncontrolled rule. 7 All the earth is at rest and is quiet: they are bursting into song. 8 Even the trees of the wood are glad over you, the trees of Lebanon, saying, From the time of your fall no wood-cutter has come up against us with an axe. 9 The underworld is moved at your coming: the shades of the dead are awake before you, even the strong ones of the earth; all the kings of the world have got up from their seats. 10 They all make answer and say to you, Have you become feeble like us? have you been made even as we are? 11 Your pride has gone down into the underworld, and the noise of your instruments of music; the worms are under you, and your body is covered with them. 12 How great is your fall from heaven, O shining one, son of the morning! How are you cut down to the earth, low among the dead bodies! 13 For you said in your heart, I will go up to heaven, I will make my seat higher than the stars of God; I will take my place on the mountain of the meeting-place of the gods, in the inmost parts of the north.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Art thou also: Psalms 49:6-14, Psalms 49:20, Psalms 82:6, Psalms 82:7, Ecclesiastes 2:16, Luke 16:20-23

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 11:21 - Thy servant Job 3:14 - kings Isaiah 25:5 - shalt bring Jeremiah 50:46 - General Ezekiel 32:21 - strong

Cross-References

Genesis 11:3
And they said one to another, Come, let us make bricks, burning them well. And they had bricks for stone, putting them together with sticky earth.
Genesis 19:17
And when they had put them out, he said, Go for your life, without looking back or waiting in the lowland; go quickly to the mountain or you will come to destruction.
Genesis 19:30
Then Lot went up out of Zoar to the mountain, and was living there with his two daughters, for fear kept him from living in Zoar: and he and his daughters made their living-place in a hole in the rock.
Joshua 8:24
Then, after the destruction of all the people of Ai in the field and in the waste land where they went after them, and when all the people had been put to death without mercy, all Israel went back to Ai, and put to death all who were in it without mercy.
Psalms 83:10
Who came to destruction at En-dor; their bodies became dust and waste.
Isaiah 24:18
And it will be that he who goes in flight from the sound of fear will be overtaken by death; and he who gets free from death will be taken in the net: for the windows on high are open, and the bases of the earth are shaking.
Jeremiah 48:44
He who goes in flight from the fear will be overtaken by death; and he who gets free from death will be taken in the net: for I will make this come on Moab, even the year of their punishment, says the Lord.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

All they shall speak, and say unto thee,.... So they would say, could they speak, and are here represented as if they did:

art thou become also weak as we? who had been more powerful than they, had been too many for them, and had subdued them, and ruled over them, and was not only looked upon as invincible but as immortal, yea, as a deity; and yet now was become "sick", as the word b signifies, or by sickness brought to death, and by death enfeebled and rendered weak and without strength, stripped of all natural strength, as well as of all civil power and authority:

art thou become like unto us? who thought himself, and was flattered by others, that there were none like unto him; but now as the rest of the dead, and upon a level with them. So will it be with the Romish antichrist, who now exalts himself above all that is called God, and reigns over the kings of the earth, and shows himself as if he was God, and of whom his parasites say, "who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?" when he shall be consumed by Christ, and cast into the lake of fire with the devil and false prophet, he will be like the kings of the earth deceived by him, and the rest of the worshippers of him, and be as weak as they, 2 Thessalonians 2:4

Revelation 20:10.

b חלית a חלה "aegrotuss fuit".

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

All they shall speak ... - Language of astonishment that one so proud, and who apparently never expected to die, should be brought down to that humiliating condition. It is a severe taunt at the great change which had taken place in a haughty monarch.


 
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