Restoration for Israel
For the LORD will have compassion on Jacob; once again He will choose Israel and settle them in their own land. The foreigner will join them and unite with the house of Jacob. Psa 102:13Zec 1:17Eph 2:12-19Isa 54:7-8Zec 8:22-23Mal 1:11Act 15:14-17Jer 12:15-16 The nations will escort Israel and bring it to its homeland. Isa 61:5Isa 60:14Jer 30:16Dan 7:25-27Isa 60:9-12Dan 7:18Isa 49:23Rev 18:20-24
Then the house of Israel will possess the nations as menservants and maidservants in the LORD’s land. They will make captives of their captors and rule over their oppressors.
The Fall of the King of Babylon
On the day that the LORD gives you rest from your pain and torment, and from the hard labor into which you were forced, Jer 30:10Ezr 9:8-9Isa 32:18Jer 46:27-28Zec 8:8Deu 28:48Deu 28:65-68Ezk 28:24 you will sing this song of contempt against the king of Babylon: Isa 49:262Ch 36:18Dan 2:38Dan 7:19-25Ezk 5:15Hab 1:2-10Hab 2:17Hab 2:6-12
How the oppressor has ceased,
and how his fury 1has ended!
The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, Psa 125:3Isa 9:4Isa 14:29Jer 48:15-17Isa 10:5
the scepter of the rulers.
It struck the peoples in anger Dan 7:19-21Jas 2:13Jer 50:31Rev 17:16-17Rev 18:8-102Ch 36:17Dan 4:35Isa 10:14
with unceasing blows;
it subdued the nations in rage
with relentless persecution.
All the earth is at peace and at rest; Psa 126:1-3Isa 49:13Psa 96:11-13Psa 98:7-9Pro 11:10Rev 18:20Rev 19:1-6Jer 51:48
they break out in song.
Even the cypresses 2and cedars of Lebanon Ezk 31:16Isa 55:12-13Zec 11:2
exult over you:
“Since you have been laid low,
no woodcutter comes against us.”
Sheol beneath is eager Ezk 32:21-32Jer 50:8Pro 15:24
to meet you upon your arrival.
It stirs the spirits of the dead to greet you—
all the rulers of the earth.
It makes all the kings of the nations
rise from their thrones.
They will all respond to you, saying, Ecc 2:16Ezk 32:21Psa 49:20Psa 49:6-14Psa 82:6-7Luk 16:20-23
“You too have become weak, as we are;
you have become like us!”
Your pomp has been brought down to Sheol, Dan 5:25-30Amo 6:3-7Dan 5:1-4Ezk 26:13Ezk 32:19-20Isa 21:4-5Isa 22:2Isa 66:24
along with the music of your harps.
Maggots are your bed
and worms your blanket.
How you have fallen from heaven, Ezk 28:13-17Luk 10:18Rev 12:7-10Rev 8:102Pe 1:19Isa 34:4Rev 22:162Pe 2:4
O day star, 3 son of the dawn!
You have been cut down to the ground,
O destroyer of nations.
You said in your heart: Dan 8:10-12Ezk 28:2Ezk 28:12-162Th 2:4Dan 5:22-23Ezk 29:3Ezk 27:3Isa 2:2
“I will ascend to the heavens;
I will raise my throne
above the stars of God.
I will sit on the mount of assembly,
in the far reaches of the north. 4
I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; Isa 47:8Gen 3:52Th 2:4Isa 37:23-24
I will make myself like the Most High.”
But you will be brought down to Sheol, Mat 11:23Act 12:22-23Ezk 32:23Luk 10:15Rev 19:20Ezk 28:8-9Isa 14:3-11
to the lowest depths of the Pit.
Those who see you will stare; Jer 50:23Psa 58:10-11Jer 51:20-23Isa 14:4-5Psa 52:7Psa 64:9
they will ponder your fate:
“Is this the man who shook the earth
and made the kingdoms tremble,
who turned the world into a desert Jol 2:32Ch 28:8-15Ezk 6:14Ezr 1:2-4Isa 13:19-22Isa 45:13Isa 58:6Isa 64:10
and destroyed its cities,
who refused to let the captives
return to their homes?”
All the kings of the nations lie in state, 2Ch 24:162Ch 24:25Ezk 32:18-32Isa 22:16Job 30:23Ecc 12:5Ecc 6:3
each in his own tomb. 5
But you are cast out of your grave like a rejected branch, Jer 41:7Jer 41:91Ki 21:191Ki 21:242Ki 9:252Ki 9:34-36Ezk 32:23Isa 22:16-18
covered by those slain with the sword,
and dumped into a rocky pit
like a carcass trampled underfoot.
You will not join them in burial, Job 18:19Psa 21:10Psa 109:13Psa 37:28Isa 1:4Isa 13:15-19Job 18:16Psa 137:8-9
since you have destroyed your land
and slaughtered your own people.
The offspring of the wicked
will never again be mentioned.
Prepare a place to slaughter his sons Exo 20:5Hab 2:8-12Lev 26:39Mat 23:35Isa 27:6
for the iniquities of their forefathers.
They will never rise up to possess a land
or cover the earth with their cities.
“I will rise up against them,” 1Ki 14:10Jer 50:29-35Pro 10:7Isa 13:5Isa 21:9Isa 43:14Isa 47:9-14Jer 50:26-27
declares the LORD of Hosts.
“I will cut off from Babylon
her name and her remnant,
her offspring and her posterity,”
declares the LORD.
“I will make her a place Zep 2:141Ki 14:10Isa 13:21-22Isa 34:11-15Rev 14:82Ki 21:13Jer 51:25-26Jer 51:42-43
for owls and for swamplands;
I will sweep her away
with the broom of destruction,”
declares the LORD of Hosts.
God’s Purpose against Assyria
The LORD of Hosts has sworn: Pro 19:21Isa 46:10-11Job 23:13Jer 29:11Act 4:28Eph 1:9Mat 11:25Amo 8:7
“Surely, as I have planned, so will it be;
as I have purposed, so will it stand.
I will break Assyria in My land; Isa 9:4Isa 37:36-38Nam 1:13Isa 10:12Isa 10:16-19Isa 10:32-34Isa 14:5Isa 30:30-33
I will trample him on My mountain.
His yoke will be taken off My people,
and his burden removed from their shoulders.”
This is the plan devised for the whole earth, Isa 23:9Exo 15:12Isa 5:25Zep 3:6-8
and this is the hand stretched out over all the nations.
The LORD of Hosts has purposed, Isa 43:13Job 23:132Ch 20:6Pro 21:30Job 9:12Pro 19:21Rom 8:28Psa 33:11
and who can thwart Him?
His hand is outstretched,
so who can turn it back?
Philistia Will Be Destroyed
In the year that King Ahaz died, this burden was received: 2Ki 16:202Ch 28:27Isa 13:1Isa 6:1
Do not rejoice, all you Philistines, 2Ch 26:6Isa 11:8Isa 30:62Ch 28:182Ki 18:8Ezk 26:2Ezk 35:15Hos 9:1
that the rod that struck you is broken.
For a viper will spring from the root of the snake,
and a flying serpent from its egg.
Then the firstborn of the poor will find pasture, Isa 7:21-22Zep 2:4-7Amo 1:6-8Ezk 25:15-17Isa 3:15Isa 30:23-24Isa 33:16Isa 37:30
and the needy will lie down in safety,
but I will kill your root by famine,
and your remnant will be slain.
Wail, O gate! Cry out, O city! Isa 20:1Jer 1:14Isa 13:6Isa 14:29Jer 25:16-20Isa 16:7Isa 24:12Isa 3:26
Melt away, all you Philistines!
For a cloud of smoke comes from the north,
and there are no stragglers in its ranks.
What answer will be given Psa 102:16Psa 87:5Jas 2:5Psa 87:1Zep 3:12Isa 25:4Isa 28:16Isa 39:1
to the envoys of that nation?
“The LORD has founded Zion,
where His afflicted people will find refuge.”