4that you will take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, |How the oppressor has ceased! The golden city has ceased!|


In Context

1 For Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land. The foreigner will join himself with them, and they will unite with the house of Jacob.

2 The peoples will take them, and bring them to their place. The house of Israel will possess them in Yahweh's land for servants and for handmaids. They will take as captives those whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.

3 It will happen in the day that Yahweh will give you rest from your sorrow, from your trouble, and from the hard service in which you were made to serve,

4 that you will take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, |How the oppressor has ceased! The golden city has ceased!|

5 Yahweh has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers,

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

Isaiah 14:4 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

14:4That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

14:4you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has come to an end! How his fury has ended!

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

14:4Thou shalt take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and shalt say: How is the oppressor come to nothing, the tribute hath ceased?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

14:4that thou shalt take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

14:4that thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased, the exactress of gold ceased!

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

14:4that thou shalt take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

14:4That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

14:4That thou hast taken up this simile Concerning the king of Babylon, and said, How hath the exactor ceased,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

14:4That you shall take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How has the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!