Those who see you will stare at you, and ponder over you: “Is this the man who made the earth tremble, who shook kingdoms,
Isaiah 14:17 - New Revised Standard Version who made the world like a desert and overthrew its cities, who would not let his prisoners go home?” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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 will stare at you, and ponder over you: “Is this the man who made the earth tremble, who shook kingdoms,
I have aroused Cyrus in righteousness, and I will make all his paths straight; he shall build my city and set my exiles free, not for price or reward, says the Lord of hosts.
Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of injustice, to undo the thongs of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke?
Your holy cities have become a wilderness, Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
Thus says the Lord of hosts: The people of Israel are oppressed, and so too are the people of Judah; all their captors have held them fast and refuse to let them go.
Their graves are set in the uttermost parts of the Pit. Its company is all around its grave, all of them killed, fallen by the sword, who spread terror in the land of the living.
I will stretch out my hand against them, and make the land desolate and waste, throughout all their settlements, from the wilderness to Riblah. Then they shall know that I am the Lord.
Fire devours in front of them, and behind them a flame burns. Before them the land is like the garden of Eden, but after them a desolate wilderness, and nothing escapes them.
Dread and fearsome are they; their justice and dignity proceed from themselves.