Isaiah 14:16

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Those who see you will be looking on you with care, they will be in deep thought, saying, Is this the troubler of the earth, the shaker of kingdoms?

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  • Jer 50:23 : 23 How is the hammer of all the earth cut in two and broken! how has Babylon become a waste among the nations!
  • Jer 51:20-23 : 20 You are my fighting axe and my instrument of war: with you the nations will be broken; with you kingdoms will be broken; 21 With you the horse and the horseman will be broken; with you the war-carriage and he who goes in it will be broken; 22 With you man and woman will be broken; with you the old man and the boy will be broken; with you the young man and the virgin will be broken; 23 With you the keeper of sheep with his flock will be broken, and with you the farmer and his oxen will be broken, and with you captains and rulers will be broken.
  • Ps 52:7 : 7 See, this is the man who did not make God his strength, but had faith in his goods and his property, and made himself strong in his wealth.
  • Ps 58:10-11 : 10 The upright man will be glad when he sees their punishment; his feet will be washed in the blood of the evil-doer. 11 So that men will say, Truly there is a reward for righteousness; truly there is a God who is judge on the earth.
  • Ps 64:9 : 9 And in fear men make public the works of God; and giving thought to his acts they get wisdom.
  • Isa 14:4-5 : 4 That you will take up this bitter song against the king of Babylon, and say, How has the cruel overseer come to an end! He who was lifted up in pride is cut off; 5 The stick of the evil-doers, the rod of the rulers, is broken by the Lord;

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  • 15But you will come down to the underworld, even to its inmost parts.

  • 17Who made the world a waste, overturning its towns; who did not let his prisoners loose from the prison-house.

  • 35All the people of the sea-lands are overcome with wonder at you, and their kings are full of fear, their faces are troubled.

  • Isa 14:9-10
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    9The underworld is moved at your coming: the shades of the dead are awake before you, even the strong ones of the earth; all the kings of the world have got up from their seats.

    10They all make answer and say to you, Have you become feeble like us? have you been made even as we are?

  • 2By the power of your hand the earth is shaking and broken; make it strong again, for it is moved.

  • 6Who is moving the earth out of its place, so that its pillars are shaking:

  • 21To take cover in the cracks of the rocks, and in the holes of the hills, for fear of the Lord, and before the glory of his power, when he comes out of his place, shaking the earth with his strength.

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    15This is what the Lord has said to Tyre: Will not the sea-lands be shaking at the sound of your fall, when the wounded give cries of pain, when men are put to the sword in you?

    16Then all the rulers of the sea will come down from their high seats, and put away their robes and take off their clothing of needlework: they will put on the clothing of grief, they will take their seats on the earth, shaking with fear every minute and overcome with wonder at you.

    17And they will send up a song of grief for you, and say to you, What destruction has come on you, how are you cut off from the sea, the noted town, which was strong in the sea, she and her people, causing the fear of them to come on all the dry land!

    18Now the sea-lands will be shaking in the day of your fall; and all the ships on the sea will be overcome with fear at your going.

  • 19And men will go into cracks of the rocks, and into holes of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and before the glory of his power, when he comes out of his place, shaking the earth with his strength.

  • Isa 24:17-19
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    17Fear, and death, and the net, are come on you, O people of the earth.

    18And it will be that he who goes in flight from the sound of fear will be overtaken by death; and he who gets free from death will be taken in the net: for the windows on high are open, and the bases of the earth are shaking.

    19The earth is completely broken, it is parted in two, it is violently moved.

  • 20So that the fish of the sea and the birds of heaven and the beasts of the field and everything moving on the earth, and all the men who are on the face of the earth, will be shaking before me, and the mountains will be overturned and the high places will come down, and every wall will come falling down to the earth.

  • 13For this cause the heavens will be shaking, and the earth will be moved out of its place, in the wrath of the Lord of armies, and in the day of his burning passion.

  • 19All who have knowledge of you among the peoples will be overcome with wonder at you: you have become a thing of fear, and you will never be seen again.

  • 32At whose look the earth is shaking; at whose touch the mountains send out smoke.

  • 15The chiefs of Edom were troubled in heart; the strong men of Moab were in the grip of fear: all the people of Canaan became like water.

  • Isa 22:17-19
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    17See, O strong man, the Lord will send you violently away, gripping you with force,

    18Twisting you round and round like a ball he will send you out into a wide country: there you will come to your end, and there will be the carriages of your pride, O shame of your lord's house!

    19And I will have you forced out of your place of authority, and pulled down from your position.

  • 7And it will come about that all who see you will go in flight from you and say, Nineveh is made waste: who will be weeping for her? where am I to get comforters for her?

  • 19But you, like a birth before its time, are stretched out with no resting-place in the earth; clothed with the bodies of the dead who have been put to the sword, who go down to the lowest parts of the underworld; a dead body, crushed under foot.

  • 40And they will get together a meeting against you, stoning you with stones and wounding you with their swords.

  • 11Will not his glory put you in fear, so that your hearts will be overcome before him?

  • 16Making their land a thing of wonder, causing sounds of surprise for ever; everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder, shaking his head.

  • 24Looking at the mountains, I saw them shaking, and all the hills were moved about.

  • 10And I will make a number of peoples overcome with wonder at you, and their kings will be full of fear because of you, when my sword is waved before them: they will be shaking every minute, every man fearing for his life, in the day of your fall.

  • 7Be troubled, O earth, before the Lord, before the God of Jacob;

  • 13So that it might take a grip of the skirts of the earth, shaking all the evil-doers out of it?

  • 5The mountains are shaking because of him, and the hills flowing away; the earth is falling to bits before him, the world and all who are in it.

  • 15All who go by make a noise with their hands at you; they make hisses, shaking their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem, and saying, Is this the town which was the crown of everything beautiful, the joy of all the earth?

  • 21So have you now become to me; you see my sad condition and are in fear.

  • 16It is burned with fire; it is cut down: they are made waste by the wrath of your face.

  • 14Fear came on me and shaking, and my bones were full of trouble;

  • Ps 73:18-19
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    18You put their feet where there was danger of slipping, so that they go down into destruction.

    19How suddenly are they wasted! fears are the cause of their destruction.

  • 3For this cause will the strong people give glory to you, the town of the cruel ones will be in fear of you.

  • 4But come back, now, come: you who are wounding yourself in your passion, will the earth be given up because of you, or a rock be moved out of its place?

  • 16The nations will see and be shamed because of all their strength; they will put their hands on their mouths, their ears will be stopped.

  • 6The upright will see it with fear, and will say, laughing at you:

  • 30Be in fear before him, all the earth: the world is ordered so that it may not be moved.

  • 14With kings and the wise ones of the earth, who put up great houses for themselves;

  • 12And the strong tower of your walls has been broken by him, made low, and crushed even to the dust.

  • 14And I will make you a waste and a name of shame among the nations round about you, in the eyes of everyone who goes by.

  • 11The pillars of heaven are shaking, and are overcome by his sharp words.

  • 3The ear has not had news of, or the eye seen, ... any God but you, working for the man who is waiting for him.