“ The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers. ”
The Lord hath broken - Yahweh, by the hand of Cyrus. The staff of the wicked - That is, the scepter of the king of Babylon. The word rendered ‘staff’ ( מטה maṭēh ) may mean either a bough...
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...
wicked . lawless ones (plural) Hebrew. rasha'. App-44.
5. The Lord hath broken the staff of the wicked. He answers the question which has just been put; for he did not intend that believers should doubt that it would happen, but rather that they...
The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers.
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...
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...
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...
The Lord hath broken the staff of the wicked... — The “staff” and the “sceptre” are alike symbols of power, the former being that on which a man supports himself, the other that which he wields in...
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...
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...
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...
The Lord hath broken the staff of the wicked ,.... This is an answer to the above question, how the exactor and his tribute came to cease; this was not by man, but by the Lord himself; for though he...
The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, [and] the sceptre of the rulers. Ver. 5. The Lord hath broken the staff. ] Wherewith these exactors cudgelled men, as so many beasts, into subjection...
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...
The Doom of the King of Babylon. B. C. 739. 4 That thou shalt take up this proverb aga...
This is an answer to the foregoing question. It is God's own work, and not man s; and therefore it is not strange that it is accomplished.
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 14:1 . 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 14:1 . 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...
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...
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...
The Deliverance of Israel
Isaiah 10:5 ; Isaiah 14:29 ; Isaiah 9:4 ; Jeremiah 48:15-17 ; Psalms 125:3