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Isaiah 14:4

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14:4you will taunt the king of Babylon with these words:7

“Look how the oppressor has met his end!

Hostility8 has ceased!

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Footnotes

  1. 7 Heb “you will lift up this taunt over the king of Babylon, saying.”
  2. 8 The word in the Hebrew text (מַדְהֵבָה, madhevah) is unattested elsewhere and of uncertain meaning. Many (following the Qumran scroll 1QIsaa) assume a dalet-resh (ד-ר) confusion and emend the form to מַרְהֵבָה (marhevah, “onslaught”). See II *מִדָּה and *מַרְהֵבָה.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon:

“How the oppressor has ceased,

the insolent fury ceased!

NIVNew International Version (2011)

you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon:

How the oppressor has come to an end!

How his fury has ended!

CSBChristian Standard Bible

you will sing this song of contempt about the king of Babylon and say:

How the oppressor has quieted down,

and how the raging has become quiet!

NLTNew Living Translation

you will taunt the king of Babylon. You will say,

“The mighty man has been destroyed.

Yes, your insolence is ended.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

that you will take this taunt against the king of Babylon,

and you will say:

“How the oppressor has ceased!

his insolence has ceased.

KJV 1900King James Version

That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say,

How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!