# Isaiah 14

> Lumin Translation

Source: https://www.lumin.faith/read/isaiah/14

Lumin’s own translation, drafted with AI from the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, checked verse by verse against them, and approved by Lumin. Brackets mark verses not found in the earliest manuscripts.

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1. For Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob; he will again choose Israel and settle them in their own land. Foreigners will join them and attach themselves to the house of Jacob.
2. Peoples will take them and bring them to their own place, and the house of Israel will possess those peoples in Yahweh’s land as male and female slaves. They will take captive those who took them captive and rule over those who oppressed them.
3. On the day Yahweh gives you rest from your pain and turmoil and from the hard labor forced on you,
4. you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon: “How the oppressor has come to an end! How his raging has ceased!
5. Yahweh has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of rulers,
6. that struck the peoples in fury with unceasing blows, that ruled the nations in anger with relentless persecution.
7. The whole earth is at rest and quiet; they break out in singing.
8. Even the cypress trees rejoice over you, and the cedars of Lebanon: ‘Since you were laid low, no woodcutter comes up against us.’
9. Sheol below is stirred up to meet you when you arrive; it rouses the shades to greet you, all who were leaders of the earth; it makes all the kings of the nations rise from their thrones.
10. They will all answer and say to you, ‘You too have become as weak as we are! You have become like us!
11. Your pomp has been brought down to Sheol, along with the music of your harps. Maggots are spread out beneath you, and worms are your covering.’
12. How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! How you have been cut down to the ground, you who laid the nations low!
13. You said in your heart, ‘I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throne above the stars of God. I will sit on the mount of assembly in the far reaches of the north.
14. I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.’
15. But you are brought down to Sheol, to the far reaches of the pit.
16. Those who see you will stare at you and ponder over you: ‘Is this the man who made the earth tremble, who shook kingdoms,
17. who made the world like a wilderness and overthrew its cities, who would not let his prisoners go home?’
18. All the kings of the nations, every one of them, lie in glory, each in his own tomb.
19. But you are cast out of your grave like a loathsome branch, covered with the slain, those pierced by the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit, like a corpse trampled underfoot.
20. You will not join them in burial, because you have destroyed your land and killed your people. The offspring of evildoers will never be named again.
21. Prepare a place to slaughter his sons for the guilt of their fathers, so that they do not rise up and possess the earth and fill the face of the world with cities.”
22. I will rise up against them, declares Yahweh of Armies. I will cut off from Babylon name and remnant, offspring and descendants, declares Yahweh.
23. I will make it a possession for the hedgehog and a place of marshes, and I will sweep it with the broom of destruction, declares Yahweh of Armies.
24. Yahweh of Armies has sworn: Surely as I have intended, so it will be, and as I have planned, so it will stand:
25. I will break Assyria in my land and trample him on my mountains. His yoke will be removed from them, and his burden will be removed from their shoulders.
26. This is the plan determined for the whole earth, and this is the hand stretched out over all the nations.
27. For Yahweh of Armies has planned it, and who can thwart it? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?
28. In the year that King Ahaz died, this oracle came:
29. Do not rejoice, Philistia, all of you, because the rod that struck you is broken; for from the root of the snake will come a viper, and its offspring will be a flying fiery serpent.
30. The firstborn of the poor will graze, and the needy will lie down in safety; but I will kill your root with famine, and it will slay your survivors.
31. Wail, you gate! Cry out, you city! Melt away, Philistia, all of you! For smoke comes out of the north, and there is no straggler in its ranks.
32. What answer will be given to the messengers of that nation? That Yahweh has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people will find refuge.

## Nearby chapters

[Isaiah 13](https://www.lumin.faith/read/isaiah/13.md)
[Isaiah 15](https://www.lumin.faith/read/isaiah/15.md)

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