Isaiah 14:4 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ That thou shalt take up this proverba against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased! ”

Isaiah 14:4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

That thou shalt take up - Thou shalt utter, declare, or commence. The word ‘take up,’ is used in the sense of utter, speak, or declare, in Exodus 20:7 ; Exodus 23:1 ; Psalms 15:2 . This pro...
Isaiah 14:4 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 13:1 to Isaiah 14:23 . The Utter Ruin of Babylon and Triumphal Ode over her Monarch's Death. Historical conditions are here presupposed entirely different from those of Isaiah's time. The...
Isaiah 14:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

take up this proverb. Reference to Pentateuch ( Numbers 23:7 ; Numbers 23:24 ; Numbers 24:3 ; Numbers 24:15 ; Numbers 24:20 ; Numbers 24:21 ; Numbers 24:23 ). Elsewhere only in Micah 2:4 . H...
Isaiah 14:4 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

4. Then thou shalt take up this saying. (213) By the term witty saying, or parable, (for the Hebrew word משל ( mashal) denotes “sayings that are weighty and remarkable, and worthy...
Isaiah 14:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased! This proverb "This parable" - משל mashal, I take this to be the gener...
Isaiah 14:4 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Thou shalt take up this proverb— The latter member of this discourse is employed in a figurative enarration of the fall of the kings of Babylon, Isaiah 14:4-21 and of Babylon itself, Isaiah 14:2...
Isaiah 14:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased! -A CHORUS OF JEWS EXPRESS THEIR JOYFUL SURPRISE AT BABYLON'S D...
Isaiah 14:4 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Judgment of Babylon and its King This is the first of a series of prophecies dealing mainly with foreign nations. Its subject is Babylon, where the Jews are represented as undergoing exile, fr...
Isaiah 14:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon. — The prophet appears once more (comp. Isaiah 5:1 ; Isaiah 12:1 ) in his character as a psalmist. In the mashal or taunting-so...
Isaiah 14:4 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

BOOK 5 PROPHECIES NOT RELATING TO ISAIAH'S TIME In the first thirty-nine Chapter s of the Book of Isaiah-the half which refers to the prophet's own career and the politics contemporary with that...
Isaiah 14:4 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Anticipating the great day of restoration, the prophet puts into the mouth of Israel the great parable or song which celebrates the downfall of Assyria. This moves in five distinct strophes. In the f...
Isaiah 14:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

I do not interrupt the reading through this long chain of the most wonderful events, because it forms one grand whole. The destruction which will ultimately fall upon the enemies of God and of his Ch...
Isaiah 14:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

That thou shall take up this proverb against the king of Babylon ,.... Or "concerning" him, his fall, and the fall of the Babylonish monarchy with him; if we understand this of any particular king o...
Isaiah 14:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased! Ver. 4. That thou shalt take up this proverb. ] Or, Taunting speec...
Isaiah 14:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

And in the day that the Lord shall give thee rest from thy sorrow From thy grief, fear, and the hard bondage of former times; wherein thou wast made to serve According to the pleasure of thy crue...
Isaiah 14:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Doom of the King of Babylon. B. C. 739. 4 That thou shalt take up this proverb aga...
Isaiah 14:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Shalt take up into thy mouth, as it is fully expressed, Psalms 50:16 . How hath the oppressor ceased! this is spoken by way of astonishment and triumph. Who would have thought this possible?...
Isaiah 14:4 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Demise of Babylon And Humiliation of Its Boastful Kings ( Isaiah 14:3-23 ). The coming of the Babylonian ambassadors to Hezekiah had had a profound influence on Isaiah. As he thought on the fu...
Isaiah 14:4 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

THE JOY OF SALVATION Isaiah 14:3-4 . And it shall come to pass in the day, &c. In these verses is described the feeling of relief and joy of Israel in view of release from the Babylonish cap...
Isaiah 14:4 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Isaiah 14:1 . For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of J...
Isaiah 14:4 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 14:1 . And set them in their own land. This prediction is so correct, as appears from the books of Nehemiah and Ezra, that no man can doubt the truth of prophecy; and its literal accomplish...
Isaiah 14:4 - The Biblical Illustrator

Thou shalt take up this proverb against the King of Babylon The “proverb against the King of Babylon” Lowth is generally thought not to speak with exaggeration when he calls it the finest [song...
Isaiah 14:4 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Isaiah 14:1-23 THE RESTORATION OF ISRAEL , AND HER SONG OF TRIUMPH OVER BABYLON . The destruction of Babylon is to be followed by the restoration of Israel, w...
Isaiah 14:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Deliverance of Israel
Isaiah 14:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Chronicles 36:18 ; Daniel 2:38 ; Daniel 7:19-25 ; Ezekiel 5:15 ; Habakkuk 1:2-10 ; Habakkuk 2:17 ; Habakkuk 2:6 ; Habakkuk 2:6-12 ; Isaiah 13:19 ; Isaiah 14:17 ; Isaiah 14:6 ; Isaiah 45...
Isaiah 14:4 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Golden city — As they used to call themselves; which therefore he expresses here in a word of their own language.

Isaiah 14:4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Isaiah 14:4 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 14:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Isaiah 14:4 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 14:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Isaiah 14:4 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 14:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 14:4 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 14:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Isaiah 14:4 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Isaiah 14:4 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 14:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Isaiah 14:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Isaiah 14:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Isaiah 14:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 14:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Isaiah 14:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 14:4 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 14:4 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Isaiah 14:4 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Isaiah 14:4 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 14:4 - The Biblical Illustrator

Isaiah 14:4 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Isaiah 14:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Isaiah 14:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 14:4 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes