[[Isa-14]] Prev: [[Prophecies in Isa-13]] | Next: [[Prophecies in Isa-15]] --- ### For Yahweh will have compassion on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land. The foreigner will join himself with them, and they will unite with the house of Jacob. *Type*: prophecy *Summary*: God promises to restore the people of Israel to their homeland after exile and that foreigners will join them. *Historical context*: The primary fulfillment occurred in 538 BC when Cyrus the Great of Persia issued a decree allowing the Jewish exiles in Babylon to return to Judea and rebuild the Temple, as recorded in [[Ezr-01#v1|Ezra 1:1]]-4. The inclusion of foreigners is seen by scholars in the proselytes who joined Judaism and later in the expansion of the faith to Gentiles. *Related to*: ### that you will take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, "How the oppressor has ceased! The golden city has ceased!" ... Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the pit. *Type*: prophecy *Summary*: A taunt and prediction regarding the ultimate humiliation and downfall of the King of Babylon and his empire. *Historical context*: The Neo-Babylonian Empire fell to Cyrus the Great of the Medo-Persian Empire in 539 BC. The 'King of Babylon' (often identified as Nabonidus or his son Belshazzar) lost all power, and the city's status as the 'golden city' of the world ended abruptly. *Related to*: ### I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, and pools of water. I will sweep it with the broom of destruction," says Yahweh of Armies. *Type*: prophecy *Summary*: Babylon will not just be conquered but will become a desolate ruin, uninhabited by humans and overtaken by wildlife and marshes. *Historical context*: After its conquest in 539 BC, Babylon gradually declined over centuries. By the Sasanian period and the Middle Ages, the once-great city was largely abandoned and became a site of ruins and marshes, exactly as described. Today, it remains an archaeological site in Iraq rather than an inhabited city. *Related to*: ### that I will break the Assyrian in my land, and tread him under foot on my mountains. Then his yoke will leave them, and his burden leave their shoulders. *Type*: prophecy *Summary*: God predicts the miraculous defeat of the Assyrian army within the borders of Israel, specifically on the mountains of Judea. *Historical context*: This was historically fulfilled in 701 BC during the reign of King Hezekiah. The Assyrian King Sennacherib besieged Jerusalem, but according to [[2 Kings-19#v35|2 Kings 19:35]] and historical records like the Taylor Prism (which fails to claim the capture of Jerusalem), the Assyrian army was decimated by the 'Angel of the Lord,' forcing a retreat and ending their immediate threat to Judah. *Related to*: ### Don't rejoice, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod that struck you is broken; for out of the serpent's root an adder will emerge, and his fruit will be a fiery flying serpent. ... smoke comes out of the north, and there is no straggler in his ranks. *Type*: prophecy *Summary*: A warning to the Philistines that although their current oppressor (the 'rod') is broken, a much more dangerous invader from the north will soon destroy them. *Historical context*: The 'rod' is often identified as King Ahaz or Tiglath-Pileser III. The 'viper' and 'fiery serpent' refer to subsequent Assyrian kings like Sargon II and Sennacherib. Sargon II crushed Ashdod in 711 BC, and Sennacherib devastated Philistine cities in 701 BC, effectively ending Philistia's power before the eventual Babylonian conquest. *Related to*: --- #ai_prophecy