Isaiah 14:10

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

⁴you will sing this song of contempt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has ceased, and how his fury has ended! ⁵The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers. ⁶It struck the peoples in anger with unceasing blows; it subdued the nations in rage with relentless persecution. ⁷All the earth is at peace and at rest; they break out in song. ⁸Even the cypresses and cedars of Lebanon exult over you: "Since you have been laid low, no woodcutter comes against us." ⁹Sheol beneath is eager to meet you upon your arrival. It stirs the spirits of the dead to greet you-all the rulers of the earth. It makes all the kings of the nations rise from their thrones. ¹⁰They will all respond and say to you, "You too have become weak as we are; you have become like us!"¹¹Your pomp has been brought down to Sheol, with the music of your harps. Maggots spread out beneath you, and worms cover you. ¹²How you have fallen from heaven, O morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, O destroyer of nations. ¹³You said in your heart: "I will ascend to the heavens; I will raise my throne above the stars of God. I will sit on the mount of assembly, in the far reaches of the north.

Bible Verse Review
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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 to one another, "Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly." So they used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of mortar.

Genesis 19:17
As soon as the men had brought them out, one of them said, "Run for your lives! Do not look back, and do not stop anywhere on the plain! Flee to the mountains, or you will be swept away!"

Genesis 19:30
Lot and his two daughters left Zoar and settled in the mountains-for he was afraid to stay in Zoar-where they lived in a cave.

Joshua 8:24
When Israel had finished killing all the men of Ai who had pursued them into the field and wilderness, and when every last one of them had fallen by the sword, all the Israelites returned to Ai and struck it down with the sword.

Psalms 83:10
who perished at Endor and became like dung on the ground.

Isaiah 24:18
Whoever flees the sound of terror will fall into a pit, and whoever escapes from the pit will be caught in a trap. For the windows of heaven are open, and the foundations of the earth are shaken.

Jeremiah 48:44
He who flees the panic will fall into the pit, and he who climbs from the pit will be caught in the snare, for I will bring against Moab the year of their punishment, declares 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.