Isaiah 14:26
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
This is the purpose that is purposed on the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out on all the nations.
American King James Version (AKJV)
This is the purpose that is purposed on the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out on all the nations.
American Standard Version (ASV)
This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth; and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
This is the purpose for all the earth: and this is the hand stretched out over all nations.
Webster's Revision
This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched over all the nations.
World English Bible
This is the plan that is determined for the whole earth. This is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations.
English Revised Version (ERV)
This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations.
Barnes's Isaiah 14:26 Bible Commentary
This is the purpose - This is the sum of the whole design - a design that embraces the destruction both of the king of Assyria, and of Babylon.
Upon the whole earth - The successive kingdoms of Assyria and Babylonia embraced the whole earth, and to destroy them would in fact affect all the nations.
Wesley's Isaiah 14:26 Bible Commentary
14:26 The earth - Upon this vast empire, now in the hands of the Assyrians, and shortly to come into the hands of the Babylonians.The hand - The providence of God executing his purpose.
