New International Version
Isaiah 14:25
25I will crush the Assyrian in my land; on my mountains I will trample him down. His yoke will be taken from my people, and his burden removed from their shoulders.”
Isaiah 14:25 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.
- English Standard Version (ESV)that 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."
- New King James Version (NKJV)That I will break the Assyrian in My land, And on My mountains tread him underfoot. Then his yoke shall be removed from them, And his burden removed from their shoulders.
- New Living Translation (NLT)I will break the Assyrians when they are in Israel; I will trample them on my mountains. My people will no longer be their slaves nor bow down under their heavy loads.
Context of Isaiah 14:25
23“I will turn her into a place for owls and into swampland; I will sweep her with the broom of destruction,” declares the Lord Almighty. 24The Lord Almighty has sworn, “Surely, as I have planned, so it will be, and as I have purposed, so it will happen. I will crush the Assyrian in my land; on my mountains I will trample him down. His yoke will be taken from my people, and his burden removed from their shoulders.” 26This is the plan determined for the whole world; this is the hand stretched out over all nations. 27For the Lord Almighty has purposed, and who can thwart him? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?
Read all of Isaiah 14Isaiah 14:25 word by word
לִשְׁבֹּ֤ר אַשּׁוּר֙ בְּאַרְצִ֔י וְעַל־הָרַ֖י אֲבוּסֶ֑נּוּ וְסָ֤ר מֵֽעֲלֵיהֶם֙ עֻלּ֔וֹ וְסֻ֨בֳּל֔וֹ מֵעַ֥ל שִׁכְמ֖וֹ יָסֽוּר׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- That I will breakשָׁבַרshâbar · to breakH7665
- the Assyrianאַשּׁוּר'ashshûr 'ashshûr · AssyriaH804
- in my landאֶ֫רֶץ'erets · land: country/planetH776
- and upon my mountainsהַרhar · mountain: mountH2022
- tread him under footבּוּסbûs · to trampleH947
- then shall his yokeעֹל‛ôl ‛ôl · yokeH5923
- departסוּרsûr ώûr · to turn aside: departH5493
- from off them, and his burdenסֹ֫בֶלsôbel sûbbâl · burdenH5448
- departסוּרsûr ώûr · to turn aside: removeH5493
- from off their shouldersשְׁכֶםshekem · shoulderH7926
Cross-references for Isaiah 14:25
- Isaiah 9:4For as in the day of Midian’s defeat, you have shattered the yoke that burdens them, the bar across their shoulders, the rod of their oppressor.
- Isaiah 10:16Therefore, the Lord, the Lord Almighty, will send a wasting disease upon his sturdy warriors; under his pomp a fire will be kindled like a blazing flame.
- Isaiah 17:12Woe to the many nations that rage— they rage like the raging sea! Woe to the peoples who roar— they roar like the roaring of great waters!
- Isaiah 30:30The Lord will cause people to hear his majestic voice and will make them see his arm coming down with raging anger and consuming fire, with cloudburst, thunderstorm and hail.
- Isaiah 31:8“Assyria will fall by no human sword; a sword, not of mortals, will devour them. They will flee before the sword and their young men will be put to forced labor.
- Isaiah 37:36Then the angel of the Lord went out and put to death a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up the next morning—there were all the dead bodies!
- Ezekiel 39:4On the mountains of Israel you will fall, you and all your troops and the nations with you. I will give you as food to all kinds of carrion birds and to the wild animals.
- Isaiah 14:5The Lord has broken the rod of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers,
- Isaiah 10:24Therefore this is what the Lord, the Lord Almighty, says: “My people who live in Zion, do not be afraid of the Assyrians, who beat you with a rod and lift up a club against you, as Egypt did.
- Nahum 1:13Now I will break their yoke from your neck and tear your shackles away.”
Commentaries on Isaiah 14:25
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 25I will break the Assyrian - upon my mountains "To crush the Assyrian - on my mountains" - The Assyrians and Babylonians are the same people, Herod. 1:199, 200. Babylon is reckoned the principal city in Assyria, ibid. 178. Strabo says the same thing, lib. 16 sub init. The circumstance of this judgment being to be executed on God's mountains is of importance; it may mean the destruction of Sennacherib's army near Jerusalem, and have a still farther view…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 25That I will break - That I will break his power; that I will discomfit and destroy his army. The Assyrian - Sennacherib (see Isaiah 10:33-34). Then shall his yoke - The yoke of the Assyrian (see the note at Isaiah 10:27).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. 25This prophecy told what would happen when Sennacherib attacked Hezekiah some years later in 701 BC (see Isaiah 36–37).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2525. That--My purpose, namely, "that." break ... yoke--(Is 10:27). my mountains--Sennacherib's army was destroyed on the mountains near Jerusalem (Is 10:33, 34). God regarded Judah as peculiarly His.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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