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Isaiah 14:27 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" For the LORD of Armies has planned, and who can stop it? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?” "
Isaiah 14:27
Verse in Context
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25 that I will break the Assyrian in my land, and tread him under foot on my mountains. Then his yoke will leave them, and his burden leave their shoulders.
26 This is the plan that is determined for the whole earth. This is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations.
27 For the LORD of Armies has planned, and who can stop it? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?”
28 This burden was in the year that King Ahaz died.
29 Don’t rejoice, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod that struck you is broken; for out of the serpent’s root an adder will emerge, and his fruit will be a fiery flying serpent.
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Isaiah 14:1
"For the LORD will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land. The foreigner will join himself with them, and they will unite with the house of Jacob."
Isaiah 14:2
"The peoples will take them, and bring them to their place. The house of Israel will possess them in the LORD’s land for servants and for handmaids. They will take as captives those whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors."
Isaiah 14:3
"It will happen in the day that the LORD will give you rest from your sorrow, from your trouble, and from the hard service in which you were made to serve,"
Isaiah 14:4
"that you will take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, “How the oppressor has ceased! The golden city has ceased!”"
Isaiah 14:5
"The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers,"
Isaiah 14:6
"who struck the peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, who ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that no one restrained."
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