Isaiah 14:3-5

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

Downfall of the King of Babylon

³When the Lord has given you rest from your pain and turmoil and the hard service with which you were made to serve, ⁴you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon:

How the oppressor has ceased!
How his insolence^[a] has ceased!
⁵The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked,
the sceptre of rulers,

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Isaiah 14:4 Q Ms Compare Gk Syr Vg: meaning of MT uncertain

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