Isaiah 10:5; Isaiah 14:29; Isaiah 9:4; Jeremiah 48:15-17; Psalms 125:3
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...
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 e...
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 shoul...
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, I...
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...
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, wher...
1. Strangers ] The thought of the voluntary adhesion of strangers is prominent in the later Chapter s of the book ( Isaiah 44:5 ; Isaiah 55:5 ; Is...
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 su...
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 o...
CHAPTER XXVII BABYLON AND LUCIFER DATE UNCERTAIN Isaiah 13:1-22 ; Isaiah 14:1-23 THIS double oracle is against the City Isaiah 13:2-22 ; I...
Anticipating the great day of restoration, the prophet puts into the mouth of Israel the great parable or song which celebrates the downfall of Assyr...
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 ult...
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...
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...
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 ma...
The Doom of the King of Babylon. B. C. 739....
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 pro...
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...
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...
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 w...
EXPOSITION Isaiah 14:1-23 THE RESTORATION OF ISRAEL , AND HER SONG OF TRIUMPH OVER BABYLON . The destruction of Babylon...
The Deliverance of Israel
The Lord hath broken the staff of the wicked and the scepter of the rulers, since it was used only for tyrannous oppression.
5 The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers.