World English Bible
Isaiah 14:5
“Yahweh has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers,”
Verse in context — Isaiah 14
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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,
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that you will take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, "How the oppressor has ceased! The golden city has ceased!
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Yahweh has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers,
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who struck the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, who ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that none restrained.
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The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet. They break out song.
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