Isaiah Chapter 14 verse 17 Holy Bible
that made the world as a wilderness, and overthrew the cities thereof; that let not loose his prisoners to their home?
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Who made the world a waste, overturning its towns; who did not let his prisoners loose from the prison-house.
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[that] made the world as a wilderness, and overthrew the cities thereof; [that] dismissed not his prisoners homewards?
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That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?
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who made the world as a wilderness, and overthrew the cities of it; who didn't let loose his prisoners to their home?"
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He hath made the world as a wilderness, And his cities he hath broken down, Of his bound ones he opened not the house.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 17. - That opened not the house of his prisoners; literally, that loosed not his prisoners homewards. The long imprisonment of Jehoiachin by Nebuchadnezzar (thirty-six years, 2 Kings 25:27) is an illustration; but perhaps it is rather the retention in captivity of the entire Jewish people that is brought to the prophet's cognizance.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(17) That opened not the house of his prisoners.--Better, as in the margin, he loosed not his prisoners to their homes. This was, we may note, a characteristic feature of the cruelty of the Assyrian kings. So Sennacherib and Assurbanipal boast of having carried off captive kings in "chains of iron" (Records of the Past, i. pp. 43, 62, 72), and kept them chained like dogs in the court of their palace (ib., pp. 93, 97). So Jehoiachin was kept in prison for thirty-seven years (Jeremiah 52:31).
