English Standard Version
Isaiah 14:26
26This is the purpose that is purposed concerning the whole earth, and this is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations.
Isaiah 14:26 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.
- New International Version (NIV)This is the plan determined for the whole world; this is the hand stretched out over all nations.
- New King James Version (NKJV)This is the purpose that is purposed against the whole earth, And this is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations.
- New Living Translation (NLT)I have a plan for the whole earth, a hand of judgment upon all the nations.
Context of Isaiah 14:26
24The Lord of hosts has sworn: "As I have planned, so shall it be, and as I have purposed, so shall it stand, 25that I will break the Assyrian in my land, and on my mountains trample him underfoot; and his yoke shall depart from them, and his burden from their shoulder." This is the purpose that is purposed concerning the whole earth, and this is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations. 27For the Lord of hosts has purposed, and who will annul it? His hand is stretched out, and who will turn it back? 28In the year that King Ahaz died came this oracle:
Read all of Isaiah 14Isaiah 14:26 word by word
זֹ֛את הָעֵצָ֥ה הַיְּעוּצָ֖ה עַל־כָּל־הָאָ֑רֶץ וְזֹ֛את הַיָּ֥ד הַנְּטוּיָ֖ה עַל־כָּל־הַגּוֹיִֽם׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Isaiah 14:26
- Isaiah 5:25Therefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against his people, and he stretched out his hand against them and struck them, and the mountains quaked; and their corpses were as refuse in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger has not turned away, and his hand is stretched out still.
- Zephaniah 3:6"I have cut off nations; their battlements are in ruins; I have laid waste their streets so that no one walks in them; their cities have been made desolate, without a man, without an inhabitant.
Commentaries on Isaiah 14:26
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 26This is the purpose - This is the sum of the whole design - a design that embraces the destruction both of the king of Assyria, and of Babylon. Upon the whole earth - The successive kingdoms of Assyria and Babylonia embraced the whole earth, and to destroy them would in fact affect all the nations.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 24-27Verses 24-27 Let those that make themselves a yoke and a burden to God's people, see what they are to expect. Let those that are the called according to God's purpose, comfort themselves, that whatever God has purposed, it shall stand. The Lord of hosts has purposed to break the Assyrian's yoke; his hand is stretched out to execute this purpose; who has power to turn it back? By such dispensations of providence, the Almighty shows in the most convincing…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 26The Lord’s power over Assyria is just one example of his sovereignty over the whole earth.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2626. This is ... purpose ... whole earth--A hint that the prophecy embraces the present world of all ages in its scope, of which the purpose concerning Babylon and Assyria, the then representatives of the world power, is but a part. hand ... stretched out upon--namely, in punishment (Is 5:25).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Isaiah 14
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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