“Those who see you stare at you, and ponder over you, saying, ‘Is this the man who made the earth tremble, who shook reigns,
Isaiah 14:17 - The Scriptures 2009 who made the world as a wilderness and destroyed its cities, who would not open the house of his prisoners?’ Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 that made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Who made the world like a wilderness and overthrew its cities, who would not permit his prisoners to return home? American Standard Version (1901) that made the world as a wilderness, and overthrew the cities thereof; that let not loose his prisoners to their home? Common English Bible who made the world a wasteland and tore down its cities, and wouldn’t let his prisoners go home?” Catholic Public Domain Version who made the world into a desert and destroyed its cities, who would not even open a prison for his prisoners?' " Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version That made the world a wilderness and destroyed the cities thereof, that opened not the prison to his prisoners? |
“Those who see you stare at you, and ponder over you, saying, ‘Is this the man who made the earth tremble, who shook reigns,
“All the sovereigns of the nations, all of them, were laid in esteem, everyone in his own house;
“I have stirred him up in righteousness, and all his ways I make straight. He builds My city and lets My exiles go, not for price nor reward,” declares יהוה of hosts.
“Is this not the fast that I have chosen: to loosen the tight cords of wrongness, to undo the bands of the yoke, to exempt the oppressed, and to break off every yoke?
Your set-apart cities have become a wilderness, Tsiyon has become a wilderness, Yerushalayim a waste.
Thus said יהוה of hosts, “The children of Yisra’ĕl were oppressed, along with the children of Yehuḏah. And all who took them captive have held them fast, they refused to let them go.
whose burial-sites are set in the sides of the pit, and her assembly is all around her burial-place, all of them slain, fallen by the sword, because they instilled fear in the land of the living.
And I shall stretch out My hand against them and make the land a wasteland, even more waste than the wilderness toward Diḇlah, in all their dwelling places. And they shall know that I am יהוה.’” ’ ”
Ahead of them a fire has consumed, and behind them a flame burns. Before them the land is like the Garden of Ěḏen, and behind them a desert waste. And from them there is no escape.
“They are frightening and fearsome, their right-ruling and their exaltation proceed from themselves.