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Isaiah 14:32 KJV
Isaiah · chapter 14 · verse 32
What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That the LORD hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it.Isaiah 14:32 · King James Version
Isaiah 14:32 in context
30And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root with famine, and he shall slay thy remnant.
31Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole Palestina, art dissolved: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and none shall be alone in his appointed times.
32What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That the LORD hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- messengersmălʼâka messengerH4397 →
- foundedyâçadto setH3245 →
- answerʻânâhproperly, to eye or to heedH6030 →
- nationgôwya foreign nationH1471 →
- peopleʻama peopleH5971 →
- LORDYᵉhôvâhJehovah, Jewish national name of GodH3068 →
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The destruction of Babylon and the Chaldean empire was a thing at a great distance; the empire had not risen to any considerable height when its fall was here foretold: it was almost 200 years from this prediction of Babylon's fall to the accomplishment of it.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 24-32