Isaiah 14:4 - Revised Standard Version CI

⁴ you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon: “How the oppressor has ceased, the insolent fury ceased!

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ that thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ You shall take up this [taunting] parable against the king of Babylon and say, How the oppressor has stilled [the restless insolence]! The golden and exacting city has ceased!

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ that thou shalt take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!

Common English Bible

⁴ you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has ceased! How the flood has receded!

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ you will accept this parable against the king of Babylon, and you will say: "How is it that the oppressor has ceased, along with his tribute?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ Thou shalt take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and shalt say: How is the oppressor come to nothing, the tribute hath ceased?

Isaiah 14:4 Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:18

And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king and of his princes, all these he brought to Babylon.

Isaiah 13:1

The oracle concerning Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.

Isaiah 13:19

And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the splendor and pride of the Chaldeans, will be like Sodom and Gomorrah when God overthrew them.

Isaiah 14:17

who made the world like a desert and overthrew its cities, who did not let his prisoners go home?’

Isaiah 14:5

The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of rulers,

Isaiah 14:6

that smote the peoples in wrath with unceasing blows, that ruled the nations in anger with unrelenting persecution.

Isaiah 16:4

let the outcasts of Moab sojourn among you; be a refuge to them from the destroyer. When the oppressor is no more, and destruction has ceased, and he who tramples under foot has vanished from the land,

Isaiah 21:2

A stern vision is told to me; the plunderer plunders, and the destroyer destroys. Go up, O Elam, lay siege, O Media; all the sighing she has caused I bring to an end.

Isaiah 47:5

Sit in silence, and go into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans; for you shall no more be called the mistress of kingdoms.

Isaiah 49:26

I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh, and they shall be drunk with their own blood as with wine. Then all flesh shall know that I am the Lord your Savior, and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”

Isaiah 51:13

and have forgotten the Lord, your Maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth, and fear continually all the day because of the fury of the oppressor, when he sets himself to destroy? And where is the fury of the oppressor?

Isaiah 51:23

and I will put it into the hand of your tormentors, who have said to you, ‘Bow down, that we may pass over’; and you have made your back like the ground and like the street for them to pass over.”

Isaiah 54:14

In righteousness you shall be established; you shall be far from oppression, for you shall not fear; and from terror, for it shall not come near you.

Isaiah 9:4

For the yoke of his burden, and the staff for his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, thou hast broken as on the day of Midian.

Jeremiah 24:9

I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a reproach, a byword, a taunt, and a curse in all the places where I shall drive them.

Jeremiah 48:17

Bemoan him, all you who are round about him, and all who know his name; say, ‘How the mighty scepter is broken, the glorious staff.’

Lamentations 4:1

How the gold has grown dim, how the pure gold is changed! The holy stones lie scattered at the head of every street.

Ezekiel 5:15

You shall be a reproach and a taunt, a warning and a horror, to the nations round about you, when I execute judgments on you in anger and fury, and with furious chastisements—I, the Lord, have spoken—

Daniel 2:38

and into whose hand he has given, wherever they dwell, the sons of men, the beasts of the field, and the birds of the air, making you rule over them all—you are the head of gold.

Habakkuk 2:17

The violence done to Lebanon will overwhelm you; the destruction of the beasts will terrify you, for the blood of men and violence to the earth, to cities and all who dwell therein.

Revelation 17:6

And I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints and the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her I marveled greatly.

Revelation 18:16

“Alas, alas, for the great city that was clothed in fine linen, in purple and scarlet, bedecked with gold, with jewels, and with pearls!

Revelation 18:20

Rejoice over her, O heaven, O saints and apostles and prophets, for God has given judgment for you against her!”