Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Isaiah 14:4

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4. proverb —The Orientals, having few books, embodied their thoughts in weighty, figurative, briefly expressed gnomes. Here a taunting song of triumph ( Micah 2:4 ; Habakkuk 2:6 ). the king —the ideal representative of Babylon; perhaps Belshazzar ( Habakkuk 2:6- : ). 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 Habakkuk 2:6- : ). return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-5" class="com-number"

Pericope (part_of)

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Source

• source-manifest/jfb — Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (PD)
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