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Isaiah 14 Majority Standard Bible
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1 For the LORD will have compassion on Jacob; once again He will choose Israel and settle them in their own land. The foreigner will join them and unite with the house of Jacob.
1 PORQUE Jehová tendrá piedad de Jacob, y todavía escogerá á Israel, y les hará reposar en su tierra: y á ellos se unirán extranjeros, y allegaránse á la familia de Jacob.
2 The nations will escort Israel and bring it to its homeland. Then the house of Israel will possess the nations as menservants and maidservants in the LORD’s land. They will make captives of their captors and rule over their oppressors.
2 Y los tomarán los pueblos, y traeránlos á su lugar: y la casa de Israel los poseerá por siervos y criadas en la tierra de Jehová: y cautivarán á los que los cautivaron, y señorearán á los que los oprimieron.
3 On the day that the LORD gives you rest from your pain and torment, and from the hard labor into which you were forced,
3 Y será en el día que Jehová te diere reposo de tu trabajo, y de tu temor, y de la dura servidumbre en que te hicieron servir,
4 you will sing this song of contempt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has ceased, and how his fury has ended!
4 Que levantarás esta parábola sobre el rey de Babilonia, y dirás: ¡Cómo paró el exactor, [cómo] cesó la ciudad codiciosa del oro!
5 The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers.
5 Quebrantó Jehová el bastón de los impíos, el cetro de los señores;
6 It struck the peoples in anger with unceasing blows; it subdued the nations in rage with relentless persecution.
6 Al que con ira hería los pueblos de llaga permanente, el cual se enseñoreaba de las gentes con furor, y las perseguía con crueldad.
7 All the earth is at peace and at rest; they break out in song.
7 Descansó, sosegó toda la tierra: cantaron alabanza.
8 Even the cypresses and cedars of Lebanon exult over you: “Since you have been laid low, no woodcutter comes against us.”
8 Aun las hayas se holgaron de ti, y los cedros del Líbano, [diciendo]: Desde que tú pereciste, no ha subido cortador contra nosotros.
9 Sheol 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.
9 El infierno abajo se espantó de ti; te despertó muertos que en tu venida saliesen á recibirte, hizo levantar de sus sillas á todos los príncipes de la tierra, á todos los reyes de las naciones.
10 They will all respond to you, saying, “You too have become weak, as we are; you have become like us!”
10 Todos ellos darán voces, y te dirán: ¿Tú también enfermaste como nosotros, [y] como nosotros fuiste?
11 Your pomp has been brought down to Sheol, along with the music of your harps. Maggots are your bed and worms your blanket.
11 Descendió al sepulcro tu soberbia, y el sonido de tus vihuelas: gusanos serán tu cama, y gusanos te cubrirán.
12 How you have fallen from heaven, O day star, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, O destroyer of nations.
12 ¡Cómo caiste del cielo, oh Lucero, hijo de la mañana! Cortado fuiste por tierra, tú que debilitabas las gentes.
13 You 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.
13 Tú que decías en tu corazón: Subiré al cielo, en lo alto junto á las estrellas de Dios ensalzaré mi solio, y en el monte del testimonio me sentaré, á los lados del aquilón;
14 I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.”
14 Sobre las alturas de las nubes subiré, y seré semejante al Altísimo.
15 But you will be brought down to Sheol, to the lowest depths of the Pit.
15 Mas tú derribado eres en el sepulcro, á los lados de la huesa.
16 Those who see you will stare; they will ponder your fate: “Is this the man who shook the earth and made the kingdoms tremble,
16 Inclinarse han hacia ti los que te vieren, te considerarán [diciendo]: ¿Es este aquel varón que hacía temblar la tierra, que trastornaba los reinos;
17 who turned the world into a desert and destroyed its cities, who refused to let the captives return to their homes?”
17 Que puso el mundo como un desierto, que asoló sus ciudades; que á sus presos nunca abrió la cárcel?
18 All the kings of the nations lie in state, each in his own tomb.
18 Todos los reyes de las gentes, todos ellos yacen con honra cada uno en su casa.
19 But you are cast out of your grave like a rejected branch, covered by those slain with the sword, and dumped into a rocky pit like a carcass trampled underfoot.
19 Mas tú echado eres de tu sepulcro como tronco abominable, [como] vestido de muertos pasados á cuchillo, que descendieron al fondo de la sepultura; como cuerpo muerto hollado.
20 You will not join them in burial, since you have destroyed your land and slaughtered your own people. The offspring of the wicked will never again be mentioned.
20 No serás contado con ellos en la sepultura: porque tú destruiste tu tierra, mataste tu pueblo. No será nombrada para siempre la simiente de los malignos.
21 Prepare a place to slaughter his sons for the iniquities of their forefathers. They will never rise up to possess a land or cover the earth with their cities.
21 Aparejad sus hijos para el matadero por la maldad de sus padres: no se levanten, ni posean la tierra, é hinchan la haz del mundo de ciudades.
22 “I will rise up against them,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will cut off from Babylon her name and her remnant, her offspring and her posterity,” declares the LORD.
22 Porque yo me levantaré sobre ellos, dice Jehová de los ejércitos, y raeré de Babilonia el nombre y las reliquias, hijo y nieto, dice Jehová.
23 “I will make her a place for owls and for swamplands; I will sweep her away with the broom of destruction,” declares the LORD of Hosts.
23 Y convertiréla en posesión de erizos, y en lagunas de agua; y la barreré con escobas de destrucción, dice Jehová de los ejércitos.
24 The LORD of Hosts has sworn: “Surely, as I have planned, so will it be; as I have purposed, so will it stand.
24 Jehová de los ejércitos juró, diciendo: Ciertamente se hará de la manera que lo he pensado, y será confirmado como lo he determinado:
25 I 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.”
25 Que quebrantaré al Asirio en mi tierra, y en mis montes lo hollaré; y su yugo será apartado de ellos, y su carga será quitada de su hombro.
26 This is the plan devised for the whole earth, and this is the hand stretched out over all the nations.
26 Este [es] el consejo que está acordado sobre toda la tierra; y ésta, la mano extendida sobre todas las gentes.
27 The LORD of Hosts has purposed, and who can thwart Him? His hand is outstretched, so who can turn it back?
27 Porque Jehová de los ejércitos ha determinado: ¿y quién invalidará? Y su mano extendida, ¿quién la hará tornar?
28 In the year that King Ahaz died, this burden was received:
28 En el año que murió el rey Achâz fué esta carga:
29 Do not rejoice, all you Philistines, that the rod that struck you is broken. For a viper will spring from the root of the snake, and a flying serpent from its egg.
29 No te alegres tú, Filistea toda, por haberse quebrado la vara del que te hería; porque de la raíz de la culebra saldrá basilisco, y su fruto, ceraste volador.
30 Then 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.
30 Y los primogénitos de los pobres serán apacentados, y los menesterosos se acostarán seguramente: mas yo haré morir de hambre tu raíz, y mataré tus reliquias.
31 Wail, 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.
31 Aulla, oh puerta; clama, oh ciudad; disuelta estás toda tú, Filistea: porque humo vendrá de aquilón, no quedará uno solo en sus asambleas.
32 What answer will be given to the envoys of that nation? “The LORD has founded Zion, where His afflicted people will find refuge.”
32 ¿Y qué se responderá á los mensajeros de la gentilidad? Que Jehová fundó á Sión, y que á ella se acogerán los afligidos de su pueblo.
Cross references (32)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Psalm 102:13; Zechariah 1:17; Ephesians 2:12–19; Isaiah 54:7–8; Zechariah 8:22–23
- 2 Isaiah 61:5; Isaiah 60:14; Jeremiah 30:16; Daniel 7:25–27; Isaiah 60:9–12
- 3 Jeremiah 30:10; Ezra 9:8–9; Isaiah 32:18; Jeremiah 46:27–28; Zechariah 8:8
- 4 Isaiah 49:26; Jeremiah 50:22–23; Revelation 18:16; Revelation 18:5–8; Revelation 16:5–6
- 5 Psalm 125:3; Isaiah 9:4; Isaiah 14:29; Jeremiah 48:15–17; Isaiah 10:5
- 6 Daniel 7:19–21; Jeremiah 50:31; Revelation 17:16–17; James 2:13; Revelation 18:8–10
- 7 Psalm 126:1–3; Psalm 96:11–13; Isaiah 49:13; Psalm 98:7–9; Proverbs 11:10
- 8 Ezekiel 31:16; Isaiah 55:12–13; Zechariah 11:2
- 9 Ezekiel 32:21–32; Jeremiah 50:8; Proverbs 15:24
- 10 Psalm 82:6–7; Ezekiel 32:21; Ecclesiastes 2:16; Psalm 49:6–14; Psalm 49:20
- 11 Daniel 5:25–30; Ezekiel 32:19–20; Isaiah 21:4–5; Job 17:13–14; Job 21:11–15
- 12 Ezekiel 28:13–17; Luke 10:18; Revelation 12:7–10; Revelation 8:10; Revelation 22:16
- 13 Daniel 8:10–12; Ezekiel 28:2; Ezekiel 28:12–16; 2 Thessalonians 2:4; Ezekiel 29:3
- 14 Isaiah 47:8; Genesis 3:5; 2 Thessalonians 2:4; Isaiah 37:23–24
- 15 Matthew 11:23; Acts 12:22–23; Ezekiel 32:23; Revelation 19:20; Luke 10:15
- 16 Jeremiah 50:23; Psalm 58:10–11; Jeremiah 51:20–23; Isaiah 14:4–5; Psalm 52:7
- 17 Joel 2:3; Ezekiel 6:14; Isaiah 58:6; Isaiah 13:19–22; Ezra 1:2–4
- 18 2 Chronicles 24:16; Ezekiel 32:18–32; 2 Chronicles 24:25; Job 30:23; Isaiah 22:16
- 19 Jeremiah 41:9; Jeremiah 41:7; 2 Kings 9:34–36; Jeremiah 22:19; 1 Kings 21:19
- 20 Psalm 21:10; Job 18:19; Psalm 37:28; Psalm 109:13; Job 18:16
- 21 Matthew 23:35; Leviticus 26:39; Habakkuk 2:8–12; Exodus 20:5; Isaiah 27:6
- 22 1 Kings 14:10; Jeremiah 50:29–35; Proverbs 10:7; Isaiah 43:14; Jeremiah 51:62–64
- 23 Zephaniah 2:14; Isaiah 13:21–22; 1 Kings 14:10; Isaiah 34:11–15; Revelation 14:8
- 24 Proverbs 19:21; Job 23:13; Isaiah 46:10–11; Jeremiah 29:11; Acts 4:28
- 25 Isaiah 9:4; Isaiah 37:36–38; Nahum 1:13; Isaiah 10:12; Isaiah 10:32–34
- 26 Isaiah 23:9; Zephaniah 3:6–8; Exodus 15:12; Isaiah 5:25
- 27 Isaiah 43:13; Job 23:13; 2 Chronicles 20:6; Proverbs 21:30; Job 9:12
- 28 2 Kings 16:20; 2 Chronicles 28:27; Isaiah 13:1; Isaiah 6:1
- 29 Isaiah 11:8; 2 Chronicles 26:6; Isaiah 30:6; 2 Chronicles 28:18; Hosea 9:1
- 30 Isaiah 7:21–22; Zephaniah 2:4–7; Isaiah 8:21; Zechariah 9:5–7; Isaiah 30:23–24
- 31 Jeremiah 1:14; Isaiah 20:1; Jeremiah 25:16–20; Isaiah 14:29; Isaiah 13:6
- 32 Psalm 87:5; Psalm 102:16; Psalm 87:1; James 2:5; Zephaniah 3:12
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
… loved and feared, not for Thy sake, but in Thy stead, by which means, being made like unto him, he may have them as his, not in harmony of love, but in the fellowship of punishment; who aspired to exalt his throne in the north, that dark and cold they might serve him, imitating Thee in perverse and distorted ways.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
Such an one was he that saith, "I will exalt my throne above the Heavens." and did not account himself to be worthy so much as of the title of the apostles, after so many and so great deeds of goodness.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
And how do they answer the prophetic proofs,--either what Isaiah says when he represents the devil under the person of the king of Babylon, "How art thou fallen, O Lucifer, son of the morning!" or what Ezekiel says, "Thou hast been in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering," where it is meant that he was …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
For example, what is said in Isaiah, "How he is fallen from heaven, Lucifer, son of the morning!" and the other statements of the context which, under the figure of the king of Babylon, are made about the same person, are of course to be understood of the devil; and yet the statement which is made in the same place, …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)