Holy Scripture
Isaiah 14:7
A church father on this verse
“(Verse 7) For the destruction of the impious king, who struck the nations with an incurable wound and cruelly pursued them, all the earth has rested and become silent, which previously was full of turmoil and sedition.”
Source: Septuagint
Original
7All the earth cries aloud with joy:
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In context
5The Lord has broken the yoke of sinners, the yoke of princes.
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.
— Isaiah 14:7 —
8the trees also of Lebanon rejoice against thee, and the cedar of Lebanon, saying, From the time that thou hast been laid low, no one has come up to cut us down.
9Hell from beneath is provoked to meet thee: all the great ones that have ruled over the earth have risen up together against thee, they that have raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.