Isaiah 14:6 - Revised Standard Version CI

⁶ that smote the peoples in wrath with unceasing blows, that ruled the nations in anger with unrelenting persecution.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ Who smote the peoples in anger with incessant blows and trod down the nations in wrath with unrelenting persecution–[until] he who smote is persecuted and no one hinders any more.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ that smote the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, that ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that none restrained.

Common English Bible

⁶ that struck peoples in rage with ceaseless blows, that ruled nations with anger, with relentless aggression.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ which struck the people in wrath with an incurable wound, which subjugated the nations in fury, which persecuted with cruelty.

Isaiah 14:6 Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:17

Therefore he brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or aged; he gave them all into his hand.

Job 9:13

“God will not turn back his anger; beneath him bowed the helpers of Rahab.

Proverbs 21:30

No wisdom, no understanding, no counsel, can avail against the Lord.

Proverbs 28:15

Like a roaring lion or a charging bear is a wicked ruler over a poor people.

Isaiah 10:14

My hand has found like a nest the wealth of the peoples; and as men gather eggs that have been forsaken so I have gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved a wing, or opened the mouth, or chirped.”

Isaiah 14:5

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

Isaiah 33:1

Woe to you, destroyer, who yourself have not been destroyed; you treacherous one, with whom none has dealt treacherously! When you have ceased to destroy, you will be destroyed; and when you have made an end of dealing treacherously, you will be dealt with treacherously.

Jeremiah 25:26

all the kings of the north, far and near, one after another, and all the kingdoms of the world which are on the face of the earth. And after them the king of Babylon shall drink.

Jeremiah 25:9

behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, says the Lord, and for Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these nations round about; I will utterly destroy them, and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting reproach.

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.’

Jeremiah 50:31

“Behold, I am against you, O proud one, says the Lord God of hosts; for your day has come, the time when I will punish you.

Lamentations 1:21

“Hear how I groan; there is none to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done it. Bring thou the day thou hast announced, and let them be as I am.

Daniel 4:35

all the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing; and he does according to his will in the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand or say to him, “What doest thou?”

Habakkuk 1:17

Is he then to keep on emptying his net, and mercilessly slaying nations for ever?

Habakkuk 2:5

Moreover, wine is treacherous; the arrogant man shall not abide. His greed is as wide as Sheol; like death he has never enough. He gathers for himself all nations, and collects as his own all peoples.”

James 2:13

For judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy; yet mercy triumphs over judgment.