Isaiah 14:17
who turned the world into a desert and destroyed its cities, who refused to let the captives return to their homes?”
That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?
Note opened…: or, did not let his prisoners loose homeward?
who made the world like a wilderness, and overthrew its cities, who didn’t release his prisoners to their home?”
that made the world as a wilderness, and overthrew the cities thereof; that let not loose his prisoners to their home?
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- made
- Isaiah 13:19–22; Isaiah 64:10; Ezekiel 6:14; Joel 2:3; Zephaniah 2:13, 14
- opened not the house of his prisoners
- or, did not let hisprisoners loose homewards.
- Isaiah 45:13; Isaiah 58:6; 2 Chronicles 28:8–15; Ezra 1:2–4