Isaiah 14:26

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

²⁴The LORD of Hosts has sworn: "As I have planned, so will it be; as I have purposed, so will it stand. ²⁵I will break Assyria in My land; I will trample him on My mountain. His yoke will be taken off My people, and his burden removed from their shoulders." ²⁶This is the plan devised for the whole earth, and this is the hand stretched out over all the nations.²⁷The LORD of Hosts has purposed, and who can thwart Him? His hand is outstretched, so who can turn it back? ²⁸In the year that King Ahaz died, this oracle was received: ²⁹Do not rejoice, all you Philistines, that the rod that struck you is broken. For a viper will spring from the serpent's root, and a flying serpent from its egg. ³⁰Then the firstborn of the poor will find pasture, and the needy will lie down in safety, but I will kill your root by famine, and your remnant will be slain. ³¹Wail, O gate! Cry out, O city! Melt away, all you Philistines! For a cloud of smoke comes from the north, and there are no stragglers in its ranks. ³²What answer will be given to the envoys of that nation? "The LORD has founded Zion, where His afflicted people will find refuge."

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Isaiah 5:25, Zephaniah 3:6-8

Reciprocal: Psalms 102:16 - When Proverbs 19:21 - nevertheless Isaiah 10:23 - determined Isaiah 19:17 - because Isaiah 25:11 - he shall spread Jeremiah 30:24 - fierce Zephaniah 1:4 - stretch Zechariah 6:1 - and the Romans 9:11 - that the 2 Timothy 1:9 - according to his Hebrews 6:17 - the immutability

Gill's Notes on the Bible

This [is] the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth, c] Or, "counsel that is counselled". The Targum is,

"all the inhabitants of the earth''

and the Septuagint version, "the whole world", meaning the Assyrian empire, and all states depending on it; as the Roman empire is called, Luke 2:1 for this purpose respects not the end of the world, and the judgment of it at the last day, as some have thought; but the preceding prophecy, purpose, or counsel, concerning breaking and trampling under foot the Assyrians, and delivering the Jews from subjection to them:

and this [is] the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations; of which the Assyrian army consisted, or which made up the Assyrian monarchy, or depended on it, and fell with it. "Purpose" denotes the counsel, will, and decree of God, about this business; and "hand" the execution of it. The Targum renders it "power"; so "hand" and "counsel" go together in Acts 4:28. The Targum is

"on all kingdoms.''

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This is the purpose - This is the sum of the whole design - a design that embraces the destruction both of the king of Assyria, and of Babylon.

Upon the whole earth - The successive kingdoms of Assyria and Babylonia embraced the whole earth, and to destroy them would in fact affect all the nations.