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Isaiah 14 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

Isa 14:1And the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and they shall rest on their land: and the stranger shall be added to them, yea, shall be added to the house of Jacob.
Isa 14:2And the Gentiles shall take them, and bring them into their place: and they shall [fn]inherit them, and [fn]they shall be multiplied upon the land for servants and handmaidens: and they that took them captives shall become captives to them; and they that had lordship over them shall be under their rule.
Isa 14:3And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall give thee rest from thy sorrow and vexation, and from thy hard servitude wherein thou didst serve them.
Isa 14:4And thou shalt take up this lamentation against the king of Babylon, [fn]How has the extortioner ceased, and the taskmaster ceased!
Isa 14:5The Lord has broken the yoke of sinners, the yoke of princes.
Isa 14:6Having smitten a nation in wrath, with an incurable plague, smiting a nation with a wrathful plague, which spared them not, he rested in quiet.
Isa 14:7All the earth cries aloud with joy:
Isa 14:8the trees also of Libanus rejoice against thee, and the cedar of Libanus, saying, From the time that thou hast been laid low, no one has come up to cut us down.
Isa 14:9Hell from beneath is provoked to meet thee: all the great ones that have ruled over the earth have risen up together against thee, they that have raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
Isa 14:10All shall answer and say to thee, Thou also hast been taken, even as we; and thou art numbered amongst us.
Isa 14:11Thy glory has come down to Hades, and thy great mirth: under thee they shall spread corruption, and the worm shall be thy covering.
Isa 14:12How has Lucifer, that rose in the morning, fallen from heaven! He that sent orders to all the nations is crushed to the earth.
Isa 14:13But thou saidst in thine heart, I will go up to heaven, I will set my throne above the stars of heaven: I will sit on a lofty mount, on the lofty mountains toward the north:
Isa 14:14I will go up above the clouds; I will be like the Most High.
Isa 14:15But now thou shalt go down to hell, even to the foundations of the earth.
Isa 14:16They that see thee shall wonder at thee, and say, [fn]This is the man that troubled the earth, that made kings to shake;
Isa 14:17that made the whole world desolate, and destroyed its cities; he loosed not those who were in captivity.
Isa 14:18All the kings of the nations lie in honour, every man in his house.
Isa 14:19But thou shalt be cast forth on the mountains, as a loathed carcase, with many dead who have been pierced with swords, going down to the grave.
Isa 14:20As a garment defiled with blood shall not be pure, so neither shalt thou be pure; because thou hast destroyed my land, and hast slain my people: thou shalt not endure for ever,—thou an evil seed.
Isa 14:21Prepare thy children to be slain for the sins of their father; that they arise not, and inherit the earth, nor fill the earth with wars.
Isa 14:22And I will rise up against them, saith the Lord of hosts, and I will destroy their name, and remnant, and seed: thus saith the Lord.
Isa 14:23And I will make the region of Babylon desert, so that hedgehogs shall dwell there, and it shall come to nothing: and I will make it a pit of clay for destruction.
Isa 14:24Thus saith the Lord of hosts, As I have said, so it shall be: and as I have purposed, so the matter shall remain:
Isa 14:25 even to destroy the Assyrians upon my land, and upon my mountains: and they shall be for trampling; and their yoke shall be taken away from them, and their glory shall be taken away from their shoulders.
Isa 14:26This is the purpose which the Lord has purposed upon the whole earth: and this the hand that is uplifted against all the nations.
Isa 14:27For what the Holy God has purposed, who shall frustrate? and who shall turn back his uplifted hand?
Isa 14:28In the year in which king Achaz died this word came.
Isa 14:29Rejoice not, all ye Philistines, because the yoke of him that smote you is broken: for out of the seed of the serpent shall come forth the young of asps, and their young shall come forth flying serpents.
Isa 14:30And the poor shall be fed by him, and poor men shall rest in peace: but he shall destroy thy seed with hunger, and shall destroy thy remnant.
Isa 14:31Howl, ye gates of cities; let the cities be troubled and cry, even all the Philistines: for smoke is coming from the north, and there is no possibility [fn]of living.
Isa 14:32And what shall the kings of the nations answer? That the Lord has founded Sion, and by him the poor of the people shall be saved.
BES Footnotes
i. e. the Israelites.
i. e. the Gentiles.
Alex. + 'and thou shalt say in that day'.
See chap 5:25.
Gr. of being.
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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