Isaiah 14:3

Mockery of a tyrant

3 When the LORD has given you rest from pain and trouble and from the hard labor that you perform,

Isaiah 14:3 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 14:3

And it shall come to pass in the day that the Lord shall
give thee rest from thy sorrow
In captivity, and on account of that, being out of their own land, deprived of the free exercise of their religion, and at a distance from the house of God, and continually hearing the reproaches and blaspheming of the enemy, and seeing their idolatrous practices, and their ungodly conversation; all which must create sorrow of heart to the sincere lovers and worshippers of God: and from thy fear;
of worse evils, most cruel usage, and death itself, under the terror of which they lived: and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve;
as before in Egypt, so now in Babylon; but what that was is not particularly expressed anywhere, as the former is, see ( Exodus 1:13 Exodus 1:14 ) and when they had rest from all this in their own land, then they should do as follows:

Isaiah 14:3 In-Context

1 The LORD will have compassion on Jacob, will again choose Israel, and will give them rest in their own land. Immigrants will join them, and attach themselves to the house of Jacob.

2 The peoples will take them and will bring them to their own place. The house of Israel will possess them as male and female slaves in the LORD's land, making captives of their captors and ruling their oppressors.

3 When the LORD has given you rest from pain and trouble and from the hard labor that you perform,

4 you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has ceased! How the flood has receded!

5 The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, the rod of tyrants