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Isaiah 14:5

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

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Isaiah 14:5 in other translations

Jehovah hath broken the staff of the wicked, the sceptre of the rulers;

Isaiah 14:5 · American Standard Version

Isaiah 14:5 in context

  1. 3It 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,
  2. 4that you will take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, “How the oppressor has ceased! The golden city has ceased!”
  3. 5Yahweh has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers,
  4. 6who struck the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, who ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that no one restrained.
  5. 7The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet. They break out in song.