Bible verse
The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers.
Isaiah 14:5 · BSB
The verses around it, from Isaiah 14.
1 For the LORD will have compassion on Jacob; once again He will choose Israel and settle them in their own land. The foreigner will join them and unite with the house of Jacob.
2 The nations will escort Israel and bring it to its homeland. Then the house of Israel will possess the nations as menservants and maidservants in the LORD’s land. They will make captives of their captors and rule over their oppressors.
3 On the day that the LORD gives you rest from your pain and torment, and from the hard labor into which you were forced,
4 you will sing this song of contempt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has ceased, and how his fury has ended!
5 The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers.
6 It struck the peoples in anger with unceasing blows; it subdued the nations in rage with relentless persecution.
7 All the earth is at peace and at rest; they break out in song.
8 Even the cypresses and cedars of Lebanon exult over you: “Since you have been laid low, no woodcutter comes against us.”
9 Sheol beneath is eager to meet you upon your arrival. It stirs the spirits of the dead to greet you—all the rulers of the earth. It makes all the kings of the nations rise from their thrones.
KJV
The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, [and] the sceptre of the rulers.
ASV
Jehovah hath broken the staff of the wicked, the sceptre of the rulers;
ERV
The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, the sceptre of the rulers;
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