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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Isaiah 14 CEV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/isaiah/14.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/isaiah/14-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">CEV</a> > Isaiah 14</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../isaiah/13.htm" title="Isaiah 13">◄</a> Isaiah 14 <a href="../isaiah/15.htm" title="Isaiah 15">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Contemporary English Version</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s1">The Lord's People Will Come Home</h3>1The Lord will have mercy on Israel and will let them be his chosen people once again. He will bring them back to their own land, and foreigners will join them as part of Israel. 2Other nations will lead them home, and Israel will make slaves of them in the land that belongs to the Lord. Israel will rule over those who once governed and mistreated them.<h3 class="s1">Death to the King of Babylonia!</h3>3The Lord will set you free from your sorrow, suffering, and slavery. 4Then you will make fun of the King of Babylonia by singing this song:That cruel monster is done for!He won't attack us again.<a href="#fn" id="link_Isa.14.4!f.1" class="notelink f-link">+</a> 5The Lord has crushed the powerof those evil kings,6who were furiousand never stopped abusingthe people of other nations.7Now all the world is at peace;its people are celebratingwith joyful songs.8King of Babylonia,even the cypress treesand the cedars of Lebanoncelebrate and say,“Since you were put down,no one comes alongto chop us down.”9The world of the deadeagerly waits for you.With great excitement,the spirits of ancient rulershear about your coming.10Each one of them will say,“Now you are just as weakas any of us!11Your pride and your musichave ended herein the world of the dead.Worms are your blanket,maggots are your bed.”12<a href="#fn" id="link_Isa.14.12!x.1" class="notelink x-link"></a> You, the bright morning star,have fallen from the sky!You brought down other nations;now you are brought down.13<a href="#fn" id="link_Isa.14.13!x.1" class="notelink x-link"></a> You said to yourself,“I'll climb to heavenand place my throneabove the highest stars.I'll sit there with the godsfar away in the north.14I'll be above the clouds,just like God Most High.”15But now you are deepin the world of the dead.16Those who see you will stareand wonder, “Is this the manwho made the world trembleand shook up kingdoms?17Did he capture every cityand make earth a desert?Is he the one who refusedto let prisoners go home?”18When kings die, they are buriedin glorious tombs.19But you will be left unburied,just another dead bodylying underfootlike a broken branch.You will be one of manykilled in battle and gone downto the deep rocky pit.<a href="#fn" id="link_Isa.14.19!f.1" class="notelink f-link">+</a> 20You won't be buried with kings;you ruined your countryand murdered your people.You evil monster!We hope that your familywill be forgotten forever.21We will slaughter your sonsto make them pay for the crimesof their ancestors.They won't take over the worldor build citiesanywhere on this earth.22The Lord All-Powerful has promised to attack Babylonia and destroy everyone there, so that none of them will ever be remembered again. 23The Lord will sweep out the people, and the land will become a swamp for wild animals.<h3 class="s1">Assyria Will Be Punished</h3>24<a href="#fn" id="link_Isa.14.24!x.1" class="notelink x-link"></a> The Lord All-Powerfulhas made this promise:Everything I have plannedwill happen just as I said.25I will wipe out every Assyrianin my country,and I will crush thoseon my mountains.I will free my peoplefrom slaveryto the Assyrians.26I have planned thisfor the whole world,and my mighty armcontrols every nation.27I, the Lord All-Powerful,have made these plans.No one can stop me now!<h3 class="s1">The Philistines Will Be Punished</h3>28<a href="#fn" id="link_Isa.14.28!x.1" class="notelink x-link"></a> This message came from the Lord in the year King Ahaz died:<a href="#fn" id="link_Isa.14.28!f.2" class="notelink f-link">+</a> 29<a href="#fn" id="link_Isa.14.29!x.1" class="notelink x-link"></a> Philistines, don't be happyjust because the rodthat punished youis broken.That rod will becomea poisonous snake, and thena flying fiery dragon.30The poor and needy will findpastures for their sheepand will live in safety.But I will starve some of you,and others will be killed.31Cry and weep in the gatesof your towns,you Philistines!Smoke blows in from the north,<a href="#fn" id="link_Isa.14.31!f.1" class="notelink f-link">+</a> and every soldier is ready.32If a messenger comesfrom a distant nation,you must say:“The Lord built Zion.Even the poorest of his peoplewill find safety there.”</div> </div> <a name="fn"></a> Footnotes: <note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">14.4 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">He … again: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</char></note> <note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">14.19 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">deep rocky pit: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">The world of the dead.</char></note> <note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">14.28 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">King Ahaz died: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">715 <char style="sc">b.c.</char></char></note> <note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">14.31 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">north: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">The Assyrian and Babylonian attacks came from the north.</char></note></div></div> <div align="center">Contemporary English Version, Second Edition (CEV®) © 2006 American Bible Society. 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