Isaiah 14:4-23 That you shall take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How has the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!… (ver. 23): — When a people have nothing among them but dirt and filth, and will not be made clean with the besom of reformation, what can they expect but to be swept off the face of the earth with "the bosom of destruction"? ( M. Henry.) Parallel Verses KJV: That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased! |