But GOD will pardon Jacob, and will again choose Israel, and will settle them on their own soil. And strangers shall join them and shall cleave to the House of Jacob.
For peoples shall take themathem I.e., the House of Jacob. and bring them to their homeland; and the House of Israel shall possess thembthem I.e., the peoples. as slaves and handmaids on GOD’s soil. They shall be captors of their captors and masters to their taskmasters.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ולקחום
190
עמים
160
והביאום
70
אלמקומם
257
והתנחלום
545
ביתישראל
953
על
100
אדמת
445
יהוה
26
לעבדים
156
ולשפחות
830
והיו
27
שבים
352
לשביהם
387
ורדו
216
בנגשיהםס
470
Isaiah 14:3
Gematria: 1922
והיהביוםהניחיהוהלךמעצבךומרגזךומןהעבדההקשהאשרעבדבך
And when GOD has given you rest from your sorrow and trouble, and from the hard service that you were made to serve,
Word-by-Word Analysis
והיה
26
ביום
58
הניח
73
יהוה
26
לך
50
מעצבך
222
ומרגזך
276
ומןהעבדה
182
הקשה
410
אשר
501
עבדבך
98
Isaiah 14:4
Gematria: 3869
ונשאתהמשלהזהעלמלךבבלואמרתאיךשבתנגששבתהמדהבה
you shall recite this song of scorn over the king of Babylon:How is the taskmaster vanished,How is oppressioncoppression Reading marhebah with 1QIsᵃ (cf. Septuagint). The traditional reading madhebah is of unknown meaning. ended!
Word-by-Word Analysis
ונשאת
757
המשל
375
הזה
17
עלמלך
190
בבל
34
ואמרת
647
איך
31
שבת
702
נגש
353
שבתה
707
מדהבה
56
Isaiah 14:5
Gematria: 1933
שבריהוהמטהרשעיםשבטמשלים
GOD has broken the staff of the wicked,The rod of tyrants,
Word-by-Word Analysis
שבר
502
יהוה
26
מטה
54
רשעים
620
שבט
311
משלים
420
Isaiah 14:6
Gematria: 2716
מכהעמיםבעברהמכתבלתיסרהרדהבאףגויםמרדףבליחשך
That smote peoples in wrathWith stroke unceasing,That belabored nations in furyIn relentless pursuit.
Word-by-Word Analysis
מכה
65
עמים
160
בעברה
279
מכת
460
בלתי
442
סרה
265
רדה
209
באף
83
גוים
59
מרדף
324
בלי
42
חשך
328
Isaiah 14:7
Gematria: 1262
נחהשקטהכלהארץפצחורנה
All the earth is calm, untroubled;Loudly it cheers.
Word-by-Word Analysis
נחה
63
שקטה
414
כלהארץ
346
פצחו
184
רנה
255
Isaiah 14:8
Gematria: 3068
גםברושיםשמחולךארזילבנוןמאזשכבתלאיעלההכרתעלינו
Even pines rejoice at your fate,And cedars of Lebanon:“Now that you have lain down,None shall come up to fell us.”
Sheol below was astirTo greet your coming—Rousing for you the shadesOf all earth’s chieftains,Raising from their thronesAll the kings of nations.
Word-by-Word Analysis
שאול
337
מתחת
848
רגזה
215
לך
50
לקראת
731
בואך
29
עורר
476
לך
50
רפאים
331
כלעתודי
540
ארץ
291
הקים
155
מכסאותם
567
כל
50
מלכי
100
גוים
59
Isaiah 14:10
Gematria: 2486
כלםיענוויאמרואליךגםאתהחליתכמונואלינונמשלת
All speak up and say to you,“So you have been stricken as we were,You have become like us!
Word-by-Word Analysis
כלם
90
יענו
136
ויאמרו
263
אליך
61
גםאתה
449
חלית
448
כמונו
122
אלינו
97
נמשלת
820
Isaiah 14:11
Gematria: 3119
הורדשאולגאונךהמיתנבליךתחתיךיצערמהומכסיךתולעה
Your pomp is brought down to Sheol,And the strains of your lutes!Worms are to be your bed,Maggots your blanket!”
Word-by-Word Analysis
הורד
215
שאול
337
גאונך
80
המית
455
נבליך
112
תחתיך
838
יצע
170
רמה
245
ומכסיך
156
תולעה
511
Isaiah 14:12
Gematria: 3007
איךנפלתמשמיםהיללבןשחרנגדעתלארץחולשעלגוים
How are you fallen from heaven,O Shining One, son of Dawn!dShining One, son of Dawn A character in some lost myth. How are you felled to earth,O vanquisher of nations!
Once you thought in your heart,“I will climb to the sky;Higher than the stars of GodI will set my throne.I will sit in the mount of assembly,eassembly I.e., the assembly of the gods in council. On the summit of Zaphon:fthe summit of Zaphon The abode of the gods; cf. Ps. 48.3.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ואתה
412
אמרת
641
בלבבך
56
השמים
395
אעלה
106
ממעל
180
לכוכביאל
119
ארים
251
כסאי
91
ואשב
309
בהרמועד
327
בירכתי
642
צפון
226
Isaiah 14:14
Gematria: 976
אעלהעלבמתיעבאדמהלעליון
I will mount the back of a cloud—I will match the Most High.”
Word-by-Word Analysis
אעלה
106
עלבמתי
552
עב
72
אדמה
50
לעליון
196
Isaiah 14:15
Gematria: 1878
אךאלשאולתורדאלירכתיבור
Instead, you are brought down to Sheol,To the bottom of the Pit.gthe bottom of the Pit A region of the netherworld reserved for those who have not received decent burial; cf. Ezek. 32.21ff.
They who behold you stare;They peer at you closely:“Is this the manWho shook the earth,Who made realms tremble,
Word-by-Word Analysis
ראיך
231
אליך
61
ישגיחו
337
אליך
61
יתבוננו
524
הזה
17
האיש
316
מרגיז
260
הארץ
296
מרעיש
620
ממלכות
536
Isaiah 14:17
Gematria: 2818
שםתבלכמדברועריוהרסאסיריולאפתחביתה
Who made the world like a wasteAnd wrecked its towns,Who never released his prisoners to their homes?”
Word-by-Word Analysis
שם
340
תבל
432
כמדבר
266
ועריו
292
הרס
265
אסיריו
287
לאפתח
519
ביתה
417
Isaiah 14:18
Gematria: 1392
כלמלכיגויםכלםשכבובכבודאישבביתו
All the kings of nationsWere laid, every one, in honorhWho never released … in honor Emendation yields “Who chained to his palace gate / All the kings of nations? / Yet they were all laid in honor…” The practice of chaining captive chieftains to gates is attested in Mesopotamia. Each in his tomb;
While you were left lying unburied,Like loathsome carrion,icarrion So several ancient versions; cf. postbiblical neṣel, “putrefying flesh or blood.” Like a trampled corpse[In] the clothing of slain gashed by the swordWho sink to the very stones of the Pit.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ואתה
412
השלכת
755
מקברך
362
כנצר
360
נתעב
522
לבש
332
הרגים
258
מטעני
179
חרב
210
יורדי
230
אלאבניבור
302
כפגר
303
מובס
108
Isaiah 14:20
Gematria: 4141
לאתחדאתםבקבורהכיארצךשחתעמךהרגתלאיקראלעולםזרעמרעים
You shall not have a burial like them;Because you destroyed your country,Murdered your people.jyour country, / Murdered your people Emendation yields “…countries, / Murdered peoples.” Let the breed of evildoersNevermore be named!
Prepare a slaughtering block for his sonskhis sons As potential heirs to the throne; cf. Kimhi. Because of the guilt of their father.lfather Heb. “fathers.” Let them not arise to possess the earth!Then the world’s face shall be covered with towns.
and I will make it a home of bitterns,mbitterns Meaning of Heb. uncertain. pools of water. I will sweep it with a broom of extermination—declares GOD of Hosts.
To break Assyria in My land,To crush him on My mountain.”nMy mountain Heb. “My mountains”; for the designation of the entire land of Israel as GOD’s mountain, cf. 11.9. And his yoke shall drop off them,And his burden shall drop from theirotheir Heb. “his.” backs.pAnd his yoke … backs These lines would read well after v. 26.
Word-by-Word Analysis
לשבר
532
אשור
507
בארצי
303
ועלהרי
321
אבוסנו
125
וסר
266
מעליהם
195
עלו
106
וסבלו
104
מעל
140
שכמו
366
יסור
276
Isaiah 14:26
Gematria: 1942
זאתהעצההיעוצהעלכלהארץוזאתהידהנטויהעלכלהגוים
That is the plan that is plannedFor all the earth;That is why an arm is poisedOver all the nations.
Word-by-Word Analysis
זאת
408
העצה
170
היעוצה
186
עלכלהארץ
446
וזאת
414
היד
19
הנטויה
85
עלכלהגוים
214
Isaiah 14:27
Gematria: 1695
כייהוהצבאותיעץומייפרוידוהנטויהומיישיבנהפ
For GOD of Hosts has planned,Who then can foil it?It is the divine arm that is poised,And who can stay it?
Word-by-Word Analysis
כייהוה
56
צבאות
499
יעץ
170
ומי
56
יפר
290
וידו
26
הנטויה
85
ומי
56
ישיבנהפ
457
Isaiah 14:28
Gematria: 1692
בשנתמותהמלךאחזהיההמשאהזה
This pronouncement was made in the year that King Ahaz died:
Rejoice not, all Philistia,Because the staff of him that beat you is broken.For from the stock of a snake there sprouts an asp,A flying seraph qseraph In contrast to others “fiery serpent”; cf. Num. 21.6, 8. branches out from it.
The first-born of the poor shall grazerThe first-born of the poor shall graze Emendation yields “The poor shall graze in his pasture.” And the destitute lie down secure.sThe first-born … lie down secure These lines would read well after v. 32. I will kill your stock by famine,tI will kill your stock by famine Emendation yields “It shall kill your offspring with its venom (zarʻekh beroʼsho).” And it shall slay the very last of you.
Howl, O gate; cry out, O city;Quake, all Philistia!For a stout one is coming from the northAnd there is no straggler in his ranks.uFor a stout one … in his ranks Meaning of Heb. uncertain; the rendering “stout one” is suggested by the Syriac ʻashshīn.
Word-by-Word Analysis
הילילי
95
שער
570
זעקיעיר
467
נמוג
99
פלשת
810
כלך
70
כי
30
מצפון
266
עשן
420
בא
3
ואין
67
בודד
16
במועדיו
138
Isaiah 14:32
Gematria: 1025
ומהיענהמלאכיגויכייהוהיסדציוןובהיחסוענייעמופ
And what will he answer the messengers of any nation?That Zion has been established by GOD:In it, the needy of this people shall find shelter.