“ The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing. ”
The whole earth is at rest - The kingdom of Babylonia, or Chaldea, extended nearly over the whole pagan world. Now that Babylon was fallen, and that those oppressions would cease, the world is re...
The whole earth is at (e) rest, [and] is quiet: they break forth into singing. (e) Meaning that where tyrants reign, there can be no rest or quietness and also how detestable a thing tyranny is, see...
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...
break forth into singing. This word (Hebrew. pazah) occurs once in the "former" portion (here), and five times in the "latter" portion ( Isaiah 44:23 ; Isaiah 49:13 ; Isaiah 52:9 ; Isaiah 54:1...
7. and 8. They break forth into singing. Here he shows how greatly tyrants are hated by the whole world. When they are dead or ruined, all men break forth into joy, and express the feelings...
The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing.
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...
They break forth into singing... — The phrase is noticeable as characteristic of Isaiah ( Isaiah 44:23 ; Isaiah 49:13 ; Isaiah 52:9 ; Isaiah 54:1 ; Isaiah 55:12 ), and is not found elsewhere. T...
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 whole earth is at rest, [and] is quiet ,.... The troubler of them being gone; and which will be the ease of the people of God, who in the latter day will fill the face of the earth, when the bea...
The whole earth is at rest, [and] is quiet: they break forth into singing. Ver. 7. The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet. ] Quievit, conticuit. a All is hushed that was used to be set in an...
He that ruled the nations in anger With rigour, and not with clemency; is persecuted and none hindereth Neither the Babylonians themselves nor their confederates. The whole earth is at rest The...
The Doom of the King of Babylon. B. C. 739. 4 That thou shalt take up this proverb aga...
The whole earth; the inhabitants and subjects of that vast empire, who groaned under their cruel bondage.
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 49:13 ; Jeremiah 51:48 ; Proverbs 11:10 ; Psalms 126:1-3 ; Psalms 96:11-13 ; Psalms 98:7-9 ; Revelation 18:20 ; Revelation 19:1-6
The earth — The subjects of that vast empire, who groaned under their cruel bondage.