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Sheol from beneath is moved for you to meet you at your coming; it stirs up the dead for you, even all the chief ones of the earth; it has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
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A Sarcastic Welcome
Commentators unanimously describe this verse as a powerful and sarcastic poem. The king of Babylon, who terrified nations, is met in Sheol (the realm of the dead) by the spirits of kings he once conquered. They rise from their 'thrones' not in honor, but to mock his downfall. As John Calvin notes, this is a fictitious scene designed to show that even the dead rejoice at the tyrant's demise.
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Isaiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Hell from beneath - The scene is now changed. The prophet had represented the people of all the subject nations as rejoicing that the king o…
19th Century
Anglican
Hell from beneath is moved for thee ... —“Hell,” or Sheol, is, as elsewhere, the shadow-world, the region of the…
Baptist
It is a fine pictorial representation of the spirits of departed kings lifting themselves up from their beds of dust, and saying, "Are you, king of…
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16th Century
Protestant
Hell from beneath is moved for you. As he had formerly attributed gladness to the trees, so now, by a similar figure, he attributes speech…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Hell from beneath is moved for you Or the "grave", or the place and state of the dead, and particularly of the damne…
The whole plan of Divine Providence is arranged with a view to the good of the people of God. A settlement in the land of promise is of God's mercy…
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13th Century
Catholic
409. Her time is near at hand. In this part, he promises liberation to the Jews through the destruction of Babylon, which he threatened abov…
