New American Standard Bible 1995
Isaiah 14:26
26This is the 1plan 2devised against the whole earth; and this is the 3hand that is stretched out against 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.
- English Standard Version (ESV)This is the purpose that is purposed concerning the whole earth, and this is the hand that is stretched out over all the 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.
Context of Isaiah 14:26
24The Lord of hosts has sworn saying, “Surely, just as I have intended so it has happened, and just as I have planned so it will stand, 25to break Assyria in My land, and I will trample him on My mountains. Then his yoke will be removed from them and his burden removed from their shoulder. This is the plan devised against the whole earth; and this is the hand that is stretched out against all the nations. 27For the Lord of hosts has planned, and who can frustrate it? And as for His stretched-out hand, who can turn it back?” 28In the year that King Ahaz died this oracle came:
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
Cross-references for Isaiah 14:26
- Isaiah 5:25On this account the anger of the Lord has burned against His people, And He has stretched out His hand against them and struck them down. And the mountains quaked, and their corpses lay like refuse in the middle of the streets. For all this His anger is not spent, But His hand is still stretched out.
- Zephaniah 3:6“I have cut off nations; Their corner towers are in ruins. I have made their streets desolate, With no one passing by; Their cities are laid waste, 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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