Isaiah:14

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* For (note :)He shows why God will haste to destroy his enemies , that is , because he will deliver his Church .(:note ) the LORD will have mercy on Jacob , and will yet choose Israel , and set them in their own land : and the strangers Meaning that the Gentiles will be joined with the Church and worship God . shall be joined with them , and they shall unite with the house of Jacob . * And the people shall take them , and bring them to their place : and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD for (note :)Signifying that the Jews would be superior to the Gentiles and that they would be brought under the service of Christ by the preaching of the Apostles , by which all are brought to the subjection of Christ , ( 2Co_10:5 ).(:note ) servants and handmaids : and they shall take them captives , whose captives they were ; and they shall rule over their oppressors . * And in that day when the Lord shal giue thee rest from thy sorrow , and from thy feare , and from the sore bodage , wherein thou didest serue , * Then shalt thou take vp this prouerbe against the King of Babel , and say , Howe hath the oppressor ceased ? &amp ; the gold thirsty Babel rested ? * The Lorde hath broken the rodde of the wicked , and the scepter of the rulers : * He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke , he that ruled the nations in anger , is persecuted , [and ] (note :)That is , he permitted all violence and injuries to be done .(:note ) none hindereth . * The whole earth is at (note :)Meaning that where tyrants reign , there can be no rest or quietness and also how detestable a thing tyranny is , seeing the insensible creatures have opportunity to rejoice at their destruction .(:note ) rest , [and ] is quiet : they break forth into singing . * Also the firre trees reioyced of thee , and the cedars of Lebanon , saying , Since thou art laid downe , no hewer came vp against vs . * Hell from beneath is moved for thee to (note :)As though they feared , lest you should trouble the dead , as you did the living and here he derides the proud tyranny of the wicked , who know not that all creatures wish their destruction , that they may rejoice .(:note ) meet [thee ] at thy coming : it stirreth up the dead for thee , [even ] all the chief ones of the earth ; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations . * All they shall crie , and saie vnto thee , Art thou become weake also as we ? Art thou become like vnto vs ? * Thy pomp is brought down to the grave , [and ] the noise of thy viols : the worm (note :)Instead of your costly carpets and coverings .(:note ) is spread under thee , and the worms cover thee . * How art thou fallen from heaven , O (note :)You who thought yourself most glorious and as it were placed in the heaven for the morning star that goes before the sun , is called Lucifer , to whom Nebuchadnezzar is compared .(:note ) Lucifer , son of the morning ! [how ] art thou cut down to the ground , which didst weaken the nations ! * For thou hast said in thy heart , I will ascend into heaven , I will exalt my throne above the stars of God : I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation , in the sides of the (note :)Meaning , Jerusalem of which the temple was of the north side , ( Psa_48:2 ).(:note ) north : * I wil ascend aboue ye height of the cloudes , and I will be like the most high . * But thou shalt bee brought downe to the graue , to the sides of the pit . * They that see thee shall narrowly (note :)In marvelling at you .(:note ) look upon thee , [and ] consider thee , [saying , Is ] this the man that made the earth to tremble , that shook kingdoms ; * [That ] made the world as a wilderness , and destroyed its cities ; [that ] opened not (note :)To set them free , noting his cruelty .(:note ) the house of his prisoners ? * All the Kings of the nations , euen they all sleepe in glorie , euery one in his owne house . * But thou art (note :)You were not buried in the sepulchre of your fathers , your tyranny was so abhorred .(:note ) cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch , [and as ] the raiment of those that are slain , thrust through with a sword , that go down to the stones of the pit ; as a carcase trodden under feet . * Thou shalt not be ioyned with them in the graue , because thou hast destroied thine owne lande , and slaine thy people : the seede of the wicked shall not be renoumed for euer . * * For I wil rise vp against them (sayth the Lorde of hostes ) and will cut off from Babel the name and the remnant and the sonne , and the nephew , sayth the Lord : * And I wil make it a possession to ye hedgehogge , and pooles of water , and I will sweepe it with the besome of destruction , sayeth the Lorde of hostes . * The Lorde of hostes hath sworne , saying , Surely like as I haue purposed , so shall it come to passe , and as I haue consulted , it shall stand : * * This is the counsell that is consulted vpon the whole worlde , and this is the hande stretched out ouer all the nations , * Because the Lorde of hostes hath determined it , and who shall disanull it ? and his hande is stretched out , and who shall turne it away ? * In the year that king Ahaz died was this (note :){{See Isa_13:1 }}(:note ) burden . * Rejoice not thou , all (note :)He wills the Philistines not to rejoice because the Jews are diminished in their power , for their strength will be greater than it ever was .(:note ) Palestina , because the rod of him that smote thee is broken : for out of the serpent 's root shall come forth an adder , and his fruit [shall be ] a fiery flying serpent . * And the (note :)The Israelites who were brought to most extreme misery .(:note ) firstborn of the poor shall feed , and the needy shall lie down in safety : and I will kill thy root with famine , and That is , my people . he shall slay thy remnant . * Howl , O gate ; cry , O city ; thou , all Palestina , [art ] dissolved : for there shall come from the (note :)That is , from the Jews or Assyrians : for they were brought to extreme misery .(:note ) north a smoke , and none [shall be ] But they shall all be ready and join together . alone in his appointed times . * What shall [one ] then answer the (note :)Who will come to enquire of the state of the Church .(:note ) messengers of the nation ? That the LORD hath founded They will answer that the Lord defends his Church and those that join themselves to it . Zion , and the poor of his people shall trust in it .

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