Isaiah 14:16
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Those who see you will stare; they will ponder your fate: “Is this the man who shook the earth and made the kingdoms tremble,”
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“Those who see you will stare; they will ponder your fate: “Is this the man who shook the earth and made the kingdoms tremble,”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;”
King James Version · Public Domain“They that see thee shall gaze at thee, they shall consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Thy beholders look to thee, to thee they attend, Is this the man causing the earth to tremble, Shaking kingdoms?”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Isaiah 14:16 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Psalms 52:7“Look at the man who did not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his wealth and strengthened himself by destruction.”
- Psalms 58:10The righteous will rejoice when they see they are avenged; they will wash their feet in the blood of the wicked.
- Psalms 64:9Then all mankind will fear and proclaim the work of God; so they will ponder what He has done.
- Isaiah 14:4you will sing this song of contempt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has ceased, and how his fury has ended!
- Jeremiah 50:23How the hammer of the whole earth lies broken and shattered! What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!
- Jeremiah 51:20“You are My war club, My weapon for battle. With you I shatter nations; with you I bring kingdoms to ruin.
- Ezekiel 32:23Her graves are set in the depths of the Pit, and her company is all around her grave. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword— those who once spread terror in the land of the living.
- Ezekiel 32:27They do not lie down with the fallen warriors of old, who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war, whose swords were placed under their heads, whose shields rested on their bones, although the terror of the mighty was once in the land of the living.
- Habakkuk 1:17Will he, therefore, empty his net and continue to slay nations without mercy?
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