Isaiah 14:17 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁷ that made the world as a wilderness, and overthrew the cities thereof; that let not loose his prisoners to their home?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ that made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ Who made the world like a wilderness and overthrew its cities, who would not permit his prisoners to return home?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ that made the world as a wilderness, and overthrew the cities thereof; that let not loose his prisoners to their home?

Common English Bible

¹⁷ who made the world a wasteland and tore down its cities, and wouldn’t let his prisoners go home?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ 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

¹⁷ That made the world a wilderness and destroyed the cities thereof, that opened not the prison to his prisoners?

Isaiah 14:17 Cross References

Isaiah 14:16

They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, they shall consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;

Isaiah 14:18

All the kings of the nations, all of them, sleep in glory, every one in his own house.

Isaiah 45:13

I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will make straight all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let my exiles go free, not for price nor reward, saith the LORD of hosts.

Isaiah 58:6

Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?

Isaiah 64:10

Thy holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion is become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

Jeremiah 50:33

Thus saith the LORD of hosts: The children of Israel and the children of Judah are oppressed together: and all that took them captives hold them fast; they refuse to let them go.

Ezekiel 32:23

whose graves are set in the uttermost parts of the pit, and her company is round about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which caused terror in the land of the living.

Ezekiel 6:14

And I will stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land desolate and waste, from the wilderness toward Diblah, throughout all their habitations: and they shall know that I am the LORD.

Joel 2:3

A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and none hath escaped them.

Habakkuk 1:7

They are terrible and dreadful: their judgement and their dignity proceed from themselves.