World English Bible
Isaiah 14:4
“that you will take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, "How the oppressor has ceased! The golden city has ceased!”
Verse in context — Isaiah 14
The peoples will take them, and bring them to their place. The house of Israel will possess them in Yahweh's land for servants and for handmaids. They will take as captives those whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.
It will happen in the day that Yahweh will give you rest from your sorrow, from your trouble, and from the hard service in which you were made to serve,
that you will take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, "How the oppressor has ceased! The golden city has ceased!
Yahweh has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers,
who struck the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, who ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that none restrained.
About Isaiah
Prophecies of judgment and hope, pointing to the coming Messiah.
Explore all chapters of Isaiah →