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Isaiah 14:3 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 3. 3And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve,
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Quick Meaning
The prophetic poem or speech in Isaiah carries the next action, claim, image, or measurement through “And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy…” at Isaiah 14:3 as part of “Jacob Receives Rest and Resident Peoples Join.”
Read It With
- Isaiah 14:1–3
The line at Isaiah 14:3 is one step in Isaiah 14:1–3. The prophetic poem or speech in Isaiah carries the next action, claim, image, or measurement through “And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy…” at Isaiah 14:3 as part of “Jacob Receives Rest and Resident Peoples Join.” Its force depends on the unit's ancient referent and what follows.
Why This Verse Appears Here
This verse supplies evidence for the thought unit rather than a detachable slogan. The prophetic poem or speech in Isaiah carries the next action, claim, image, or measurement through “And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy…” at Isaiah 14:3 as part of “Jacob Receives Rest and Resident Peoples Join.” Preserve this limit: Jacob Receives Rest and Resident Peoples Join does not authorize turning Zion poetry into a modern land deed, nationalist immunity, supersessionism, or coercive control of women and communities.
What Remains True
Hope for a community must hold justice, belonging, safety, worship, grief, and repair together. In Isaiah 14:3, that truth is carried through this precise role: The prophetic poem or speech in Isaiah carries the next action, claim, image, or measurement through “And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy…” at Isaiah 14:3 as part of “Jacob Receives Rest and Resident Peoples Join.”
How It Can Shape Life
- Role in Isaiah 14:3: The prophetic poem or speech in Isaiah carries the next action, claim, image, or measurement through “And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy…” at Isaiah 14:3 as part of “Jacob Receives Rest and Resident Peoples Join.” Contextual meaning in Isaiah 14:1–3: Mercy, return, resident attachment, reversed captivity, and relief from hard bondage introduce the taunt against imperial power. The controlling interpretive and ethical limit is: Jacob Receives Rest and Resident Peoples Join does not authorize turning Zion poetry into a modern land deed, nationalist immunity, supersessionism, or coercive control of women and communities. Proportionate enduring truth: Hope for a community must hold justice, belonging, safety, worship, grief, and repair together. Application: Serve real communities with accountable justice and welcome while refusing territorial absolutism, misogyny, or claims that one modern city exhausts the poetry.
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Read Isaiah 14:1–3 — Jacob Receives Rest and Resident Peoples JoinSources used for this Verse Lens
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Isaiah 14:1–3, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Isaiah
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology at the exact unit, without treating morphology as apparatus, lexicon, composition history, or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Isa.xml, OSIS 14:1–3 with Hebrew/KJV versification difference checked
Open the fixed Hebrew Isaiah file ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible Notes: Isaiah
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2016; current official PDF
Supports: Verse-level controls for Hebrew, syntax, poetry, older KJV language, chronology, names, textual issues, and material translation alternatives.
Exact location: Official NET Isaiah PDF, translator, study, and textual notes attached to Isaiah 14:1–3 in the complete 205-page book PDF
Open the official NET Isaiah PDF ↗