Isaiah 14:4-6

New American Standard Bible

⁴that you will ^(A)take up this ^[a]taunt against the king of Babylon, and say,

“How ^(B)the oppressor has ceased,
And how the ^[b]onslaught has ceased!
⁵The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked,
The scepter of rulers,
⁶^(C)Which used to strike the peoples in fury with unceasing strokes,
Which ^[c]subdued the nations in anger with unrestrained persecution.

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Footnotes

Isaiah 14:4 Or proverb
Isaiah 14:4 As in DSS and ancient versions; MT uncertain
Isaiah 14:6 Or ruled

Jeremiah 25:12

New American Standard Bible

Babylon Will Be Judged

¹²‘Then it will be ^(A)when seventy years are completed I will ^(B)punish the king of Babylon and that nation,’ declares the Lord, ‘for their wrongdoing, and the land of the Chaldeans; and ^(C)I will make it an everlasting desolation.

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Jeremiah 25:12 in all English translations