Isaias 14:7
The whole earth is quiet and still, it is glad and hath rejoiced.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Conquievit et siluit omnis terra, gavisa est et exsultavit ;
- Septuagint (Swete)
- πᾶσα ἡ γῆ βοᾷ μετ᾽ εὐφροσύνης,
- Hebrew (WLC)
- נָ֥חָה שָׁקְטָ֖ה כָּל הָאָ֑רֶץ פָּצְח֖וּ רִנָּֽה
Haydock's commentary
Earth. Subject to, or bordering upon the Assyrian empire. Under Darius the Mede, (the Cyaxares of Xenophon) and Cyrus, the people were little molested. (Calmet)
The neighbouring princes (fir-trees, &c., ver. 8.) were also at rest. (Haydock)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Hippolytus Treatise on Christ and Antichrist
17. And again he says in another place: “How hath the exactor ceased, and how hath the oppressor ceased! God hath broken the yoke of the rulers of sinners, He who smote the people in wrath, and with an incurable stroke: He that strikes the people with an incurable stroke, which He did not spare. He ceased (rested) confidently: the whole earth shouts with rejoicing. The trees of Lebanon rejoiced at thee, and the cedar of Lebanon, (saying), Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us. Hell from beneath is moved at meeting thee: all the mighty ones, the rulers of the earth, are gathered together, the lords from their thrones. All the kings of the nations, all they shall answer together, and shall say, And thou, too, art taken as we; and thou art reckoned among us. …