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Thatk thou shalt take up this μproverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the νgolden citym ceased!

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Hab. 2:6• ⁶Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long? and to him that ladeth himself with many pledges! (Hab. 2:6)

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or, taunting speech.

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or, exactress of gold.

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Rev. 18:16• ¹⁶saying, Woe, woe, the great city, that was clothed with fine linen and purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stone and pearls! (Rev. 18:16)

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proverb.

or, taunting speech.

Jer. 24:9• ⁹and I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them. (Jer. 24:9)

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Ezek. 5:15• ¹⁵So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment unto the nations that are round about thee, when I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I Jehovah have spoken it. (Ezek. 5:15)

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Hab. 2:6• ⁶Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long? and to him that ladeth himself with many pledges! (Hab. 2:6)

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Isa. 14:6,17• ⁶He that smote the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, that ruled the nations in anger, hath a persecution without restraint.
¹⁷[that] made the world as a wilderness, and overthrew the cities thereof; [that] let not loose his prisoners to their home? (Isa. 14:6,17)

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Isa. 47:5• ⁵Sit silent, and get thee into darkness, daughter of the Chaldeans; for thou shalt no more be called Mistress of kingdoms. (Isa. 47:5)

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Isa. 49:26• ²⁶And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine and all flesh shall know that I Jehovah [am] thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob. (Isa. 49:26)

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Isa. 51:23• ²³and I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee, who have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy back as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over. (Isa. 51:23)

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Jer. 25:9‑14• ⁹I will send and take all the families of the north, saith Jehovah, and Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.
¹⁰Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the candle.
¹¹And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.
¹²And it shall come to pass, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, saith Jehovah, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans, and will make it perpetual desolations.
¹³And I will bring upon that land all my words which I have pronounced against it, even all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah hath prophesied against all the nations.
¹⁴For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of them also: and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands. (Jer. 25:9‑14)

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Jer. 27:6‑7• ⁶And now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and the beasts of the field have I given him also to serve him.
⁷And all nations shall serve him, and his son, and his son's son, until the very time of his land come: and then many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of him. (Jer. 27:6‑7)

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Jer. 50:22‑23• ²²A sound of battle is in the land, and of great destruction.
²³How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! how is Babylon become a desolation among the nations! (Jer. 50:22‑23)

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Jer. 51:20‑24,34‑35• ²⁰Thou wast my battle axe, weapons of war: with thee I have broken nations in pieces; and with thee I have destroyed kingdoms.
²¹And with thee I have broken in pieces the horse and his rider; and with thee I have broken in pieces the chariot and its rider;
²²and with thee I have broken in pieces the husband and the wife; and with thee I have broken in pieces the aged and the young; and with thee I have broken in pieces the youth and the maid.
²³And with thee I have broken in pieces the shepherd and his flock; and with thee I have broken in pieces the plowman and his team; and with thee I have broken in pieces the governors and prefects.
²⁴And I have rendered unto Babylon and all the inhabitants of Chaldea all the evil which they have done in Zion in your sight, saith Jehovah.
³⁴Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cast me out.
³⁵The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say. (Jer. 51:20‑24,34‑35)

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Dan. 7:19‑25• ¹⁹Then I desired to know the certainty concerning the fourth beast, which was different from them all, exceeding dreadful, whose teeth were of iron, and its nails of brass; which devoured, broke in pieces, and stamped the rest with its feet;
²⁰And of the ten horns that were in his head, and of the other which came up, and before whom three fell; even of that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spake very great things, whose look was more stout than his fellows.
²¹I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them;
²²until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the Most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.
²³He said thus: The fourth beast shall be a fourth kingdom upon the earth, which shall be different from all the kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
²⁴And as to the ten horns, out of this kingdom shall arise ten kings; and another shall arise after them; and he shall be different from the former, and he shall subdue three kings.
²⁵And he shall speak great words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High , and think to change times and laws; and they shall be given into his hands, until a time and times and the dividing of time. (Dan. 7:19‑25)

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Hab. 1:2‑10• ²O Jehovah, how long shall I cry, and thou dost not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou savest not?
³Why dost thou show me iniquity, and beholdest grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.
⁴Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth; for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.
⁵Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you.
⁶For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwelling-places that are not theirs.
⁷They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves.
⁸Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; and they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat.
⁹They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.
¹⁰And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn unto them: they shall deride every strong hold; for they shall heap dust, and take it. (Hab. 1:2‑10)

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Hab. 2:6‑12,17• ⁶Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long? and to him that ladeth himself with many pledges!
⁷Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto them?
⁸Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the people shall spoil thee; because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and all that dwell therein.
⁹Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!
¹⁰Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned against thy soul.
¹¹For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.
¹²Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity!
¹⁷For the violence of Lebanon shall cover thee, and the spoil of beasts, which made them afraid, because of men's blood, and for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell therein. (Hab. 2:6‑12,17)

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Rev. 13:15‑17• ¹⁵And it was given him to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause [that] as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
¹⁶And he causeth all, the little and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free and the bond, that they should give them a mark on their right hand, or upon their forehead,
¹⁷and that no one may be able to buy or sell, save he that hath the mark, the name of the beast, or the number of his name. (Rev. 13:15‑17)

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Rev. 16:5‑6• ⁵And I heard the angel of the waters say, Righteous art thou that art and that wast holy, because thou hast judged these things.
⁶For they shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou gavest them blood to drink: they are worthy. (Rev. 16:5‑6)

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Rev. 17:6• ⁶And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus; and when I saw her, I wondered with great wonder. (Rev. 17:6)

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Rev. 18:5‑8,20• ⁵for her sins have reached unto the heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
⁶Render to her as she also rendered, and double [the] double according to her works: in the cup which she mixed mix to her double.
⁷How much she glorified herself and lived luxuriously, so much torment and mourning give her. Because in her heart she saith, I sit a queen and am no widow and shall in no wise see mourning;
⁸therefore in one day shall her plagues come, death and mourning and famine; and she shall be utterly burnt with fire: for strong is the Lord God that judged her.
²⁰Rejoice over her, O heaven, and ye saints, and ye apostles, and ye prophets: for God hath judged your judgment on her. (Rev. 18:5‑8,20)

golden city.

or, exactress of gold.

Isa. 13:19• ¹⁹And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldean's pride, shall be as God's overthrowing Sodom and Gomorrha. (Isa. 13:19)

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Isa. 45:2‑3• ²I will go before thee, and make the elevated places plain; I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron;
³and I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I Jehovah, who call [thee] by thy name, [am] the God of Israel. (Isa. 45:2‑3)

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2 Chron. 36:18• ¹⁸And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of Jehovah, and the treasures of the king and of his princes, he brought all to Babylon. (2 Chron. 36:18)

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Lam. 4:1• ¹How the gold is become dim! the most fine gold is changed!{HR}The sacred stones are thrown down at the top of every street! (Lam. 4:1)

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Dan. 2:38• ³⁸And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field, and the fowls of heaven, hath he given into thine hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all. Thou art this head of gold. (Dan. 2:38)

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Rev. 18:16• ¹⁶saying, Woe, woe, the great city, that was clothed with fine linen and purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stone and pearls! (Rev. 18:16)

• Then, not only will Israel be established once more in their own land but they will be the supreme nation, ruling over the others who formerly oppressed them, and completely at rest themselves. In that day they will take up the proverb against the king of Babylon, that fills verses 4-23 of the chapter. (“Isaiah 14” by F.B. Hole)

• When Isaiah uttered this prophecy Babylon was still dominated by the Assyrian power. A century or so later it became “the golden city” under the great king Nebuchadnezzar, spoken of as the “head of gold” in Daniel 2:38. (“Isaiah 14” by F.B. Hole)

• Isaiah’s prophecy in these verses applies first to the visible king— verses 4-11. The Lord will break his scepter and cast him into hell as is more fully explained in Revelation 19. (“Isaiah 14” by F.B. Hole)

J. N. Darby Translation

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that thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased,—the exactress of gold ceased!

W. Kelly Translation

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that thou shalt take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased, the golden city ceased!