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For the LORD 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. See also: Psalms 102:13Zechariah 1:17Isaiah 54:7-8The peoples will take them, and bring them to their place. The house of Israel will possess them in the LORD’s land for servants and for handmaids. They will take as captives those whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors. See also: Isaiah 61:5Isaiah 60:14Jeremiah 30:16It will happen in the day that the LORD will give you rest from your sorrow, from your trouble, and from the hard service in which you were made to serve, See also: Jeremiah 30:10Ezra 9:8-9Isaiah 32:18that you will take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, “How the oppressor has ceased! The golden city has ceased!” See also: Isaiah 49:262 Chronicles 36:18Jeremiah 27:6-7The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers, See also: Psalms 125:3Isaiah 9:4Jeremiah 48:15-17who struck the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, who ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that no one restrained. See also: Daniel 7:19-21Revelation 18:8-10Revelation 17:16-17The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet. They break out in song. See also: Psalms 126:1-3Psalms 98:7-9Isaiah 49:13Yes, the cypress trees rejoice with you, with the cedars of Lebanon, saying, “Since you are humbled, no lumberjack has come up against us.” See also: Ezekiel 31:16Zechariah 11:2Isaiah 55:12-13Sheol from beneath has moved for you to meet you at your coming. It stirs up the departed spirits for you, even all the rulers of the earth. It has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. See also: Ezekiel 32:21-32Jeremiah 50:8Proverbs 15:24They all will answer and ask you, “Have you also become as weak as we are? Have you become like us?” See also: Ecclesiastes 2:16Ezekiel 32:21Psalms 49:6-14Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, with the sound of your stringed instruments. Maggots are spread out under you, and worms cover you. See also: Daniel 5:25-30Amos 6:3-7Job 17:13-14How you have fallen from heaven, shining one, son of the dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low! See also: Ezekiel 28:13-17Luke 10:18Revelation 12:7-10You said in your heart, “I will ascend into heaven! I will exalt my throne above the stars of God! I will sit on the mountain of assembly, in the far north! See also: Daniel 8:10-12Ezekiel 28:2Ezekiel 28:12-16I will ascend above the heights of the clouds! I will make myself like the Most High!” See also: Isaiah 47:8Genesis 3:52 Thessalonians 2:4Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the pit. See also: Matthew 11:23Acts 12:22-23Ezekiel 32:23Those who see you will stare at you. They will ponder you, saying, “Is this the man who made the earth to tremble, who shook kingdoms, See also: Jeremiah 50:23Psalms 58:10-11Jeremiah 51:20-23who made the world like a wilderness, and overthrew its cities, who didn’t release his prisoners to their home?” See also: Joel 2:3Isaiah 45:132 Chronicles 28:8-15All the kings of the nations sleep in glory, everyone in his own house. See also: Job 30:232 Chronicles 24:25Isaiah 22:16But you are cast away from your tomb like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain who are thrust through with the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit; like a dead body trodden under foot. See also: Jeremiah 41:9Jeremiah 41:71 Kings 21:19You will not join them in burial, because you have destroyed your land. You have killed your people. The offspring of evildoers will not be named forever. See also: Job 18:19Psalms 21:10Psalms 37:28Prepare for slaughter of his children because of the iniquity of their fathers, that they not rise up and possess the earth, and fill the surface of the world with cities. See also: Exodus 20:5Leviticus 26:39Habakkuk 2:8-12“I will rise up against them,” says the LORD of Armies, “and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, and son and son’s son,” says the LORD. See also: Jeremiah 50:29-351 Kings 14:10Proverbs 10:7“I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, and pools of water. I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,” says the LORD of Armies. See also: Zephaniah 2:14Isaiah 13:21-22Revelation 14:8The LORD of Armies has sworn, saying, “Surely, as I have thought, so shall it happen; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand: See also: Proverbs 19:21Isaiah 46:10-11Job 23:13that I will break the Assyrian in my land, and tread him under foot on my mountains. Then his yoke will leave them, and his burden leave their shoulders. See also: Isaiah 9:4Nahum 1:13Isaiah 37:36-38This is the plan that is determined for the whole earth. This is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations. See also: Isaiah 23:9Isaiah 5:25Exodus 15:12For the LORD of Armies has planned, and who can stop it? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?” See also: Isaiah 43:13Job 23:132 Chronicles 20:6This burden was in the year that King Ahaz died. See also: 2 Kings 16:202 Chronicles 28:27Isaiah 13:1Don’t rejoice, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod that struck you is broken; for out of the serpent’s root an adder will emerge, and his fruit will be a fiery flying serpent. See also: Isaiah 30:6Isaiah 11:82 Chronicles 26:6The firstborn of the poor will eat, and the needy will lie down in safety; and I will kill your root with famine, and your remnant will be killed. See also: Isaiah 7:21-22Zephaniah 2:4-7Isaiah 37:30Howl, gate! Cry, city! You are melted away, Philistia, all of you; for smoke comes out of the north, and there is no straggler in his ranks. See also: Jeremiah 1:14Isaiah 20:1Jeremiah 25:16-20What will they answer the messengers of the nation? That the LORD has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people will take refuge. See also: Psalms 87:5Psalms 102:16James 2:5
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Notes in English 19th-century Catholic commentary by Fr. George Leo Haydock, shown as published.
These notes keep the polemics of their time: some speak harshly of the Jewish people or of other Christians. The Church teaches otherwise today. The Jewish people may not be blamed for the death of Christ (Nostra Aetate 4; Catechism 597–598), and Christians of other communities are our brothers and sisters in the Lord (Unitatis Redintegratio 3). Christian unity
Isaiah 14:1
Ver. 1. Prolonged. Babylon was taken one hundred and seventy-two years after. C. --- Yet this time is counted short, compared with the monarchy, which had lasted a thousand years. W. ---
Ground. Cyrus restored the Jews; yet all did not return at that time. ---
Stranger. Converts. Est.
viii. 17. All Idumea received circumcision under Hyrcan.
↑ 1Isaiah 14:2
Ver. 2. Place. Cyrus probably granted an escort, as Artaxerxes did. 2 Esd. ii. 7.
--- Servants.
They had purchased many slaves, (1 Esd. ii. 65.) as some were very rich in captivity, and were treated like other subjects. --- Oppressors. Stragglers of the army of Cambyses, &c. though this was chiefly verified under the Machabees.
Jer. xxv. 14. and xxx. 16. C.
↑ 2Isaiah 14:4
Ver. 4. Parable. Sept. threnon. "Lamentation." H. --- Or mournful canticle.
↑ 4Isaiah 14:6
Ver. 6. Persecuted. The Jews read incorrectly, "is persecuted."
↑ 6Isaiah 14:7
Ver. 7. Earth. Subject to, or bordering upon the Assyrian empire. Under Darius the Mede, (the Cyaxares of Xenophon) and Cyrus, the people were little molested. C. --- The neighbouring princes ( fir-trees, &c. v. 8.) were also at rest.
H.
↑ 7Isaiah 14:9
Ver. 9. Hell is personified, deriding the Chaldee monarch, Baltassar, who perished the very night after he had profaned the sacred vessels. Dan. v. 3. He probably received only the burial of an ass. v. 11. 19. C.
↑ 9Isaiah 14:12
Ver. 12. O Lucifer. O day-star. All this, according to the letter, is spoken of the king of Babylon.
It may also be applied, in a spiritual sense, to Lucifer, the prince of devils, who was created a bright angel, but fell by pride and rebellion against God. Ch. Lu.
x. 18. C. --- He fell by pride, as Nabuchodonosor did. W. --- Homer (Iliad xix.) represents the demon of discord hurled down by Jupiter to the miserable region of mortals.
↑ 12Isaiah 14:13
Ver. 13. North. And be adored as God in the temple of Jerusalem. Ps. xlvii. 3.
The Assyrian and Persian monarchs claimed divine honours. 4 K. xviii. 33.
Judith iii. 13.
↑ 13Isaiah 14:15
Ver. 15. Depth. Heb. "sides," (v. 13.) or holes dug out of a cavern. C.
↑ 15Isaiah 14:16
Ver. 16. Turn. From their respective holes in the monument.
↑ 16Isaiah 14:19
Ver. 19. Grave. Strangers seized the crown of Baltassar, and neglected his sepulchre: or if we explain it of Nabuchodonosor, his tomb was probably plundered, (C.) as the Persians did not spare that of Belus. In the reign of Alexander, the tombs of the kings were covered with water, and filled with serpents. Arrian. vii.
↑ 19Isaiah 14:20
Ver. 20. Thy. Sept. "my." Thou hast been a murderer instead of a shepherd. ---
Ever. The children and monarchy of Nabuchodonosor presently perished.
Evilmerodac and Baltassar reigned but a short time, and left no issue to inherit the throne.
↑ 20Isaiah 14:22
Ver. 22. Name. It shall lose all its splendour, and be mentioned only with abhorrence. 1 Pet. v.
13.
↑ 22Isaiah 14:23
Ver. 23. Besom. Reducing it to a heap of rubbish, (C. xiii. 21. C.) as the event shewed. Watson.
↑ 23Isaiah 14:25
Ver. 25. Assyrian. 4 K. xix. W. --- Sennacherib, (S. Jer.) Cambyses, or Holofernes. The sight of their chastisement would ben an earnest of the fall of Babylon. C. --- The allies of Assyria, (M.) or the enemies of God's people, will also be punished. C. xv. H.
↑ 25Isaiah 14:28
Ver. 28. Achaz. When Ezechias was just seated on the throne. The preceding and subsequent predictions were then delivered. C. xiii. 20.
↑ 28Isaiah 14:29
Ver. 29. Rod. Achaz. --- Bird. Ezechias will openly attack thee. 4 K. xviii. 8. C. ---
Prot. " shall be a fiery flying serpent," (H.) like that erected by Moses. Num. xxi.
9. Sennacherib and Assaraddon shall lay waste Philistia. v. 31. c. xx. 1. C. ---
Though Achaz be dead, Ezechias and Ozias will destroy more of that nation. 4
K. xviii. 8. and 2 Par. xxvi. W.
↑ 29Isaiah 14:32
Ver. 32. Nations. Surprised that Ezechias should escape, while the power of the Philistines was overturned so easily; or when the king sent ambassadors to his allies, to announce the defeat of Sennacherib by the angel. All confessed that this was an effect of the divine protection towards Sion. C.
↑ 32License: Notes by Fr. George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), from the Douay-Rheims Bible with Haydock's commentary (first ed. Thomas Haydock, Manchester/Dublin, 1811–1814; New York: Edward Dunigan & Brother, 1859); New Testament notes compiled with Fr. Benedict Rayment. Public domain. Digital text: "The Haydock Bible", Internet Archive (archive.org/details/TheHaydockBible), uploaded 2011 under the Public Domain Mark. · Credits and licenses