◄ Isaiah 14:7 ►
All the earth is at peace and at rest; they break out in song.
Study Bible
All the earth
This phrase emphasizes the universality of the message. In Hebrew, "kol ha'aretz" signifies not just a specific region but the entire world. The context here is the liberation from oppression, suggesting a time when the whole earth experiences peace and relief. Historically, this can be seen as a prophetic vision of a future where God's justice prevails globally, reflecting the hope for a messianic era where all creation is restored.

is at rest
The Hebrew word for "rest" is "nuach," which conveys a sense of tranquility and peace. This rest is not merely physical but spiritual and emotional, indicating a cessation of turmoil and conflict. In the biblical narrative, rest is often associated with God's presence and blessing, as seen in the Sabbath rest. This phrase suggests a divine intervention where God brings about a profound peace that permeates the earth.

and at peace
The word "peace" here is "shalom," a rich Hebrew term that encompasses completeness, welfare, and harmony. Shalom is more than the absence of war; it is the presence of God's order and blessing. In the prophetic literature, shalom is a key element of the messianic kingdom, where justice and righteousness reign. This peace is a gift from God, reflecting His ultimate plan for His creation.

they break out in song
The imagery of breaking out in song signifies a spontaneous and joyful response to God's deliverance. In the Hebrew tradition, singing is a powerful expression of worship and gratitude. This phrase suggests a communal celebration, where the people collectively acknowledge and praise God's mighty acts. The historical context of Israel often involved songs of victory and thanksgiving, such as the Song of Moses or the Psalms, which celebrated God's intervention and faithfulness.

Persons / Places / Events
1. Isaiah
A major prophet in the Old Testament, Isaiah is the author of the book that bears his name. He prophesied during the reigns of several kings of Judah and is known for his messages of both judgment and hope.

2. Babylon
In the context of Isaiah 14, Babylon represents a powerful empire that oppressed Israel. The prophecy in this chapter speaks of the downfall of Babylon and the subsequent peace that follows.

3. The Earth
Symbolically represents the nations and peoples who were under the oppression of Babylon. The earth's peace and rest signify the end of tyranny and the beginning of a new era of freedom.

4. The Song
Represents the joy and relief experienced by the nations after the fall of Babylon. It is a metaphor for the celebration of liberation and divine justice.

5. The Lord's Judgment
The event of God's intervention to bring down the oppressive powers, leading to peace and rest for the earth.
Teaching Points
God's Sovereignty Over Nations
God is in control of the rise and fall of nations. Just as He brought down Babylon, He can bring justice and peace in our world today.

The Joy of Liberation
The earth breaking out in song symbolizes the joy that comes with freedom from oppression. In our lives, we can experience this joy when we are freed from sin and bondage.

Peace as a Divine Gift
True peace and rest come from God. In a world full of turmoil, we can find peace through our relationship with Him.

The Power of God's Judgment
God's judgment is not only about punishment but also about restoring order and justice. We can trust that God will ultimately right all wrongs.

Hope in God's Promises
The prophecy of peace in Isaiah 14:7 reminds us to hold onto hope, knowing that God's promises of restoration and peace will be fulfilled.
Bible Study Questions
1. How does the fall of Babylon in Isaiah 14:7 illustrate God's control over world events, and how can this understanding impact our view of current global situations?

2. In what ways can we experience the "peace and rest" described in Isaiah 14:7 in our personal lives today?

3. How does the theme of liberation in Isaiah 14:7 connect with the New Testament message of freedom in Christ?

4. What are some modern-day "Babylons" that oppress people, and how can we, as Christians, work towards bringing God's peace and justice to these situations?

5. How can the joy and celebration of liberation in Isaiah 14:7 inspire our worship and gratitude towards God in our daily lives?
Connections to Other Scriptures
Revelation 18
This chapter describes the fall of Babylon the Great, echoing the themes of judgment and liberation found in Isaiah 14. It highlights the ultimate triumph of God's justice over oppressive systems.

Psalm 46
This psalm speaks of God as a refuge and strength, bringing peace and stillness to the earth, similar to the peace described in Isaiah 14:7.

Zechariah 9:10
This verse prophesies about the coming of a king who will bring peace to the nations, aligning with the theme of peace and rest in Isaiah 14:7.
Sermons
Song of Redeemed IsraelE. Johnson Isaiah 14:1-23
An Image of the SoulF. Delitzsch.Isaiah 14:4-23
An Ode of TriumphProf . E. R. Driver, D. D.Isaiah 14:4-23
Deliverance from an Evil DominionR. Macculloch.Isaiah 14:4-23
Destruction of the King of BabylonIsaiah 14:4-23
HellProf. S. R. Driver, D. D.Isaiah 14:4-23
HellW. Day, M. A.Isaiah 14:4-23
Impious Expectations DisappointedProf. J. Skinner, D. D.Isaiah 14:4-23
LuciferProf. J. Skinner, D. D.Isaiah 14:4-23
PrideR. Macculloch.Isaiah 14:4-23
Sin and its HumiliationsW. Clarkson Isaiah 14:4-23
The BitternJ. Duns, D. D., F. R. S. E.Isaiah 14:4-23
The Bosom of DestructionIsaiah 14:4-23
The Church's Exultation Over Her FoesF. B. Meyer, B. A.Isaiah 14:4-23
The Golden CityR. Macculloch.Isaiah 14:4-23
The Proverb Against the King of BabylonSir E. Strachey, Bart.Isaiah 14:4-23
People
Ahaz, Isaiah, Jacob, Lucifer, Saraph
Places
Babylon, Lebanon, Philistia, Zion
Topics
Break, Broken, Bursting, Forth, Joy, Peace, Quiet, Rest, Shouts, Singing, Song
Dictionary of Bible Themes
Isaiah 14:7

     8328   quietness

Isaiah 14:3-23

     4215   Babylon

Library
The victory of Life (Preached at the Chapel Royal. )
ISAIAH xxxviii. 18, 19. The grave cannot praise thee, death cannot celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth. The living, the living, he shall praise thee. I may seem to have taken a strange text on which to speak,--a mournful, a seemingly hopeless text. Why I have chosen it, I trust that you will see presently; certainly not that I may make you hopeless about death. Meanwhile, let us consider it; for it is in the Bible, and, like all words in the Bible, was written …
Charles Kingsley—The Water of Life and Other Sermons

The Life and Death of Mr. Badman,
Presented to the World in a Familiar Dialogue Between Mr. Wiseman and Mr. Attentive. By John Bunyan ADVERTISEMENT BY THE EDITOR. The life of Badman is a very interesting description, a true and lively portraiture, of the demoralized classes of the trading community in the reign of King Charles II; a subject which naturally led the author to use expressions familiar among such persons, but which are now either obsolete or considered as vulgar. In fact it is the only work proceeding from the prolific …
John Bunyan—The Works of John Bunyan Volumes 1-3

The First Trumpet.
The first trumpet of the seventh seal begins from the final disturbance and overthrow of the Roman idolarchy at the close of the sixth seal; and as it was to bring the first plague on the empire, now beginning to fall, it lays waste the third part of the earth, with a horrible storm of hail mingled with fire and blood; that is, it depopulates the territory and people of the Roman world, (viz. the basis and ground of its universal polity) with a terrible and bloody irruption of the northern nations, …
Joseph Mede—A Key to the Apocalypse

The Evil of Sin visible in the Fall of Angels and Men.
1 When the great Builder arch'd the skies, And form'd all nature with a word, The joyful cherubs tun'd his praise, And every bending throne ador'd. 2 High in the midst of all the throng, Satan, a tall archangel, sat, Amongst the morning stars he sung [1] Till sin destroy'd his heavenly state. 3 ['Twas sin that hurl'd him from his throne, Grov'ling in fire the rebel lies: "How art thou sunk in darkness down, "Son of the morning, from the skies!" [2] 4 And thus our two first parents stood Till sin …
Isaac Watts—Hymns and Spiritual Songs

Epistle xviii. To John, Bishop.
To John, Bishop. Gregory to John, Bishop of Constantinople [1586] . At the time when your Fraternity was advanced to Sacerdotal dignity, you remember what peace and concord of the churches you found. But, with what daring or with what swelling of pride I know not, you have attempted to seize upon a new name, whereby the hearts of all your brethren might have come to take offence. I wonder exceedingly at this, since I remember how thou wouldest fain have fled from the episcopal office rather than …
Saint Gregory the Great—the Epistles of Saint Gregory the Great

Epistle xxi. To Constantina Augusta .
To Constantina Augusta [1593] . Gregory to Constantina, &c. Almighty God, who holds in His right hand the heart of your Piety, both protects us through you and prepares for you rewards of eternal remuneration for temporal deeds. For I have learnt from the letters of the deacon Sabinianus my responsalis with what justice your Serenity is interested in the cause of the blessed Prince of the apostles Peter against certain persons who are proudly humble and feignedly kind. And I trust in the bounty …
Saint Gregory the Great—the Epistles of Saint Gregory the Great

That the Ruler Should Be, through Humility, a Companion of Good Livers, But, through the Zeal of Righteousness, Rigid against the vices of Evildoers.
The ruler should be, through humility, a companion of good livers, and, through the zeal of righteousness, rigid against the vices of evil-doers; so that in nothing he prefer himself to the good, and yet, when the fault of the bad requires it, he be at once conscious of the power of his priority; to the end that, while among his subordinates who live well he waives his rank and accounts them as his equals, he may not fear to execute the laws of rectitude towards the perverse. For, as I remember to …
Leo the Great—Writings of Leo the Great

The Doctrine of Satan.
I. HIS EXISTENCE AND PERSONALITY. 1. EXISTENCE. 2. PERSONALITY. II. HIS PLACE AND POWER. 1. A MIGHTY ANGEL. 2. PRINCE OF POWER OF THE AIR. 3. GOD OF THIS WORLD. 4. HEAD OF KINGDOM OF DARKNESS. 5. SOVEREIGN OVER DEATH. III. HIS CHARACTER. 1. ADVERSARY. 2. DIABOLOS. 3. WICKED ONE. 4. TEMPTER. IV. OUR ATTITUDE TOWARDS SATAN. 1. LIMITED POWER OF SATAN. 2. RESIST HIM. V. HIS DESTINY. 1. A CONQUERED ENEMY. 2. UNDER ETERNAL CURSE. VI. DEMONS. THE DOCTRINE OF SATAN. Throughout the Scriptures Satan is set …
Rev. William Evans—The Great Doctrines of the Bible

The Disciple, -- Master, Some People Say that the Comfort and Joy that Believers Experience...
The Disciple,--Master, some people say that the comfort and joy that believers experience are simply the outcome of their own thoughts and ideas. Is this true? The Master,--1. That comfort and abiding peace which believers have within themselves is due to My presence in their hearts, and to the life-giving influence of the fullness of the Holy Spirit. As for those who say that this spiritual joy is the result only of the thoughts of the heart, they are like a foolish man who was blind from his birth, …
Sadhu Sundar Singh—At The Master's Feet

The Power of God
The next attribute is God's power. Job 9:19. If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong.' In this chapter is a magnificent description of God's power. Lo, he is strong.' The Hebrew word for strong signifies a conquering, prevailing strength. He is strong.' The superlative degree is intended here; viz., He is most strong. He is called El-shaddai, God almighty. Gen 17:7. His almightiness lies in this, that he can do whatever is feasible. Divines distinguish between authority and power. God has both. …
Thomas Watson—A Body of Divinity

Sargon of Assyria (722-705 B. C. )
SARGON AS A WARRIOR AND AS A BUILDER. The origin of Sargon II.: the revolt of Babylon, Merodach-baladan and Elam--The kingdom of Elam from the time of the first Babylonian empire; the conquest's of Shutruh-nalkunta I.; the princes of Malamir--The first encounter of Assyria and Elam, the battle of Durilu (721 B.C.)--Revolt of Syria, Iaubidi of Hamath and Hannon of Gaza--Bocchoris and the XXIVth Egyptian dynasty; the first encounter of Assyria with Egypt, the battle of Raphia (720 B.C.). Urartu …
G. Maspero—History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, V 7

Use to be Made of the Doctrine of Providence.
Sections. 1. Summary of the doctrine of Divine Providence. 1. It embraces the future and the past. 2. It works by means, without means, and against means. 3. Mankind, and particularly the Church, the object of special care. 4. The mode of administration usually secret, but always just. This last point more fully considered. 2. The profane denial that the world is governed by the secret counsel of God, refuted by passages of Scripture. Salutary counsel. 3. This doctrine, as to the secret counsel of …
John Calvin—The Institutes of the Christian Religion

The Holy War,
MADE BY SHADDAI UPON DIABOLUS, FOR THE REGAINING OF THE METROPOLIS OF THE WORLD; OR, THE LOSING AND TAKING AGAIN OF THE TOWN OF MANSOUL. THE AUTHOR OF 'THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS.' 'I have used similitudes.'--Hosea 12:10. London: Printed for Dorman Newman, at the King's Arms in the Poultry; and Benjamin Alsop, at the Angel and Bible in the Poultry, 1682. ADVERTISEMENT BY THE EDITOR. Bunyan's account of the Holy War is indeed an extraordinary book, manifesting a degree of genius, research, and spiritual …
John Bunyan—The Works of John Bunyan Volumes 1-3

Covenanting According to the Purposes of God.
Since every revealed purpose of God, implying that obedience to his law will be given, is a demand of that obedience, the announcement of his Covenant, as in his sovereignty decreed, claims, not less effectively than an explicit law, the fulfilment of its duties. A representation of a system of things pre-determined in order that the obligations of the Covenant might be discharged; various exhibitions of the Covenant as ordained; and a description of the children of the Covenant as predestinated …
John Cunningham—The Ordinance of Covenanting

Opposition to Messiah in Vain
He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh; the Lord shall have them in derision. T he extent and efficacy [effects] of the depravity of mankind cannot be fully estimated by the conduct of heathens destitute of divine revelation. We may say of the Gospel, in one sense, what the Apostle says of the Law, It entered that sin might abound (Romans 5:20) . It afforded occasion for displaying the alienation of the heart of man from the blessed God, in the strongest light. The sensuality, oppression and …
John Newton—Messiah Vol. 2

Isaiah
CHAPTERS I-XXXIX Isaiah is the most regal of the prophets. His words and thoughts are those of a man whose eyes had seen the King, vi. 5. The times in which he lived were big with political problems, which he met as a statesman who saw the large meaning of events, and as a prophet who read a divine purpose in history. Unlike his younger contemporary Micah, he was, in all probability, an aristocrat; and during his long ministry (740-701 B.C., possibly, but not probably later) he bore testimony, as …
John Edgar McFadyen—Introduction to the Old Testament

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