# 14 2025 Dev. Isa.14:3-4. “Our God Gives Relief!” Read all of chapter fourteen first. We invite you into God’s space, to read His Word, to think on and interact with. This is God’s Story. Do you believe that this may also be part of our story, in our time? All passages are taken from the NIV.
Isa.14:3-4 “On the day the Lord gives you relief from your suffering and turmoil and from the harsh labor forced on you, you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon:”
Isaiah 14 The chapter starts with an assurance of God’s care for His people Israel. After that Isaiah continues his prophecy against Babylon. The chapter ends with a prophecy against the Philistines.
Vs.1-2 “The Lord will have compassion on Jacob; once again he will choose Israeland will settle them in their own land.” God does punish His people for their arrogance, for their oppression of the poor, and for their complicity with false gods. But “The Lord is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love.” Ps 103:8. Today Israel is back in their home land, the significance of that is not fully understood, because Christ, an Israeli, and the Son of God is the head of the church, the church is the body of Christ and is now the new Israel, Christians Jews and Christian Gentiles together. Praise the Lord!
Vs.3-23 “On the day the Lord gives you relief from your suffering and turmoil and from the harsh labor forced on you, you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon:” What follows is a long description of what is in store for the King of Babylon and his kingdom. “The Lord has broken the rod…all the lands are at peace…” Nature rejoices, the trees, ‘Now that you have been laid low, no one comes to cut us down.’” All those kings who have come and gone before you; “they will all respond… ‘you also have become weak… All your pomp has been brought down to the grave…How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn!” The King fancied himself to be the light of day, the sun being himself and his rule. But he was unusually cruel and he was exceedingly arrogant, his strength is his downfall. “Let the offspring of the wicked never be mentioned again.”
Vs.24-27 “Surely, as I have planned… I will crush the Assyrians in my land…” God was in control then and He is in control now. “For the Lord Almighty has purposed, and who can thwart him? His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?”
Vs.28-32 This prophecy is dated. “This prophecy came in the year King Ahaz died, 716/715, before Christ. “Wail, you gate! Howl, you city! Melt away, all you Philistines!… The poorest of the poor will find pasture, and the needy will lie down in safety.” The chapter ends positively; “The Lord has established Zion and in her his afflicted people will find refuge.” Today, in our time, “God is our refuge and our strength.” Praise Him!
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