Holy Scripture
Isaiah 14:5
A church father on this verse
“(Verse 5) The Lord has broken the rod of the wicked, the staff of rulers. That man, I say, who was the staff of the wicked, who fiercely struck down all with his scepter and royal rod.”
Source: Septuagint
Original
5The Lord has broken the yoke of sinners, the yoke of princes.
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In context
3And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall give thee rest from thy sorrow and vexation, and from thy hard servitude wherein thou didst serve them.
4And thou shalt take up this lamentation against the king of Babylon, How has the extortioner ceased, and the taskmaster ceased!
— Isaiah 14:5 —
6Having smitten a nation in wrath, with an incurable plague, smiting a nation with a wrathful plague, which spared them not, he rested in quiet.
7All the earth cries aloud with joy: