Daily Meditation
7 The whole earth is
at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing.
Today’s Reading
Isaiah
Chapter 14
For
the Lord will have mercy on Jacob
14 For the Lord will
have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own
land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the
house of Jacob. 2 And the people shall take them, and bring them to
their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of
the Lord for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them
captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their
oppressors. 3 And it shall come to pass in the day that
the Lord shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and
from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve, 4 that thou
shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the
oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased! 5 The Lord hath broken
the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers. 6 He who
smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in
anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth. 7 The whole earth is
at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing. 8 Yea, the
fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since
thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us. 9 Hell from beneath
is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead
for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up
from their thrones all the kings of the nations. 10 All they shall speak
and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto
us? 11 Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy
viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee. 12 How art
thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut
down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! 13 For thou hast said
in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the
stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides
of the north: 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be
like the most High. 15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the
sides of the pit. 16 They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee,
and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth
to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; 17 that made the world as a
wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of
his prisoners? 18 All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie
in glory, every one in his own house. 19 But thou art cast out of thy
grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are
slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a
carcase trodden under feet. 20 Thou shalt not be joined with them in
burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people:
the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned. 21 Prepare slaughter for
his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor
possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.
22 For I will
rise up against them, saith the Lord of hosts, and cut off from
Babylon the name, and remnant, and son, and nephew, saith
the Lord. 23 I will also make it a possession for the bittern,
and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith
the Lord of hosts.
24 The Lord of
hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass;
and as I have purposed, so shall it stand: 25 that I will break
the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall
his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.
26 This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth:
and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.
27 For the Lord of hosts hath purposed, and who shall
disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn
it back?
28 In the year
that king Ahaz died was this burden.
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