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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Isaiah 14:4 - 14:4
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Isa 14:4-23. The Jews’ triumphal song thereat.
“It moves in lengthened elegiac measure like a song of lamentation for the dead, and is full of lofty scorn” [Herder].
Isa 14:4-8. A chorus of Jews express their joyful surprise at Babylon’s downfall.
The whole earth rejoices; the cedars of Lebanon taunt him.
proverb - The Orientals, having few books, embodied their thoughts in weighty, figurative, briefly expressed gnomes. Here a taunting song of triumph (Mic 2:4; Hab 2:6).
the king - the ideal representative of Babylon; perhaps Belshazzar (Dan 5:1-31). The mystical Babylon is ultimately meant.
golden city - rather, “the exactress of gold” [Maurer]. But the old translators read differently in the Hebrew, “oppression,” which the parallelism favors (compare Isa 3:5).