An Analysis of Isaiah 14

1. The LORD will have mercy on his yet, unrepentant people. Jacob is the name of Israel, before being bestowed the blessing. Before he had to wrestle with Christ, and therefore, receive the inheritance. The nations will cleave to Jacob, and Israel will be set in their own land.
2. Those who enslaved Israel will be taken captive. Those who have made Israel a prey, and have made them slaves, will be taken as house servants and slaves to the House of Israel. A fitting end for them.
3. In the day when the LORD gives Israel rest from his fear and sorrow, and restore him from his slavery,
4. Israel will take up this "Proverb" against the king of Babylon. He will say, "How the Oppressor ceased!"
5. The LORD will break the scepter of Wickedness, and the staff of rebuke.
6. The man, King of Babylon, who smote the whole earth with continual rebuke, and ruled the nations in anger, will be persecuted, and none will hinder his descent into destruction. They will be glad that this man falls.
7. When the King of Babylon is fallen, the whole Earth will be quiet, and at rest. It will break into singing.
8. The trees and firs of Lebanon will rejoice that the King is defeated, the one who oppressed the world with his evil decrees. They will sing that there is no ax which is lifted up against them.
9. Hell moves up to meet him. Hell will swallow him whole, the one who oppressed the Earth, and would not leave men be at rest and quiet at their work. It is speaking of Satan, drawing its archetype from the King of Babylon who would rule over the Earth. A physical domain.
10. Those in hell will speak to the King of Babylon, "Have you become like us", is what they will say. Even the proud destroyer who has subdued all nations will be in hell, like one of the fallen and those who suffer torments.
11. The King's pomp, his splendor, has brought him down to the grave. The worm is spread under him. The worm a type of death.
12. Lucifer is a name given to Satan in the King James Translation---the Son of the Morning Star. This epithet was given at first to Egyptian Pharaohs and is now, here, being related to the Babylonian King, who likely would call himself the "Son of the Morning Star." It was a common epithet kings would call themselves, those kings who were known as "Baalim", kings who wished to be worshipped as gods. The tradition is ubiquitous around the ancient world, and did not originate in Greece. It originated in Egypt, and likely carried over to all kings who wanted to be worshipped as gods. It is also foreshadowing the captivity of God's people, their oppression under the yoke of Babylon---some seventy years before Babylon took Israel captive; interestingly, this seems to be written after Hezekiah showed the treasures to Babylonian Princes, but the prophecy was written under King Ahaz, therefore, it is literally prophesying when Hezekiah would meet with the Babylonian Princes and showed them the kingdom's treasure. God prophesied from that moment, that Babylon would take Judah captive since the Babylonian Princes had seen the treasures of Israel in their full sum. Lucifer is fallen, likely a demonic entity which inhabits kings, and causes them to oppress their people and have themselves be worshipped as gods.
13-14. Here it's detailing the pomp of the Babylonian Kings. They wish to ascend into heaven, and be seated at God's throne. They believe themselves to be the rightful heir to God's throne.
15. And it says that this entity and the kings shall be thrown into hell. I have some recollection of Nebuchadnezzar making the people worship the bronze statue. Making himself a god, for the people to worship. And again with Daniel, being thrown into the lion's den for not worshiping Nebuchadnezzar. Both times were God's people protected, yet also, both times God's people chose death rather than life, if it meant following after an idol. The reference to the "Morning Star" is likely a harkening back to Egyptian captivity, relating Nebuchadnezzar to Pharaoh, which Ezekiel will actually do. And Ezekiel will also liken this same entity to the King of Tyre.
16- 17. The same entity, Satan, which caused the whole earth to tremble---foreshadowing the great tribulation---will be cast into hell. He will be sucked down into hell, and the beings within hell will all say to themselves, "Is this the man who caused all the nations to rue? Who caused all men to suffer? Is this the man who lopped the bough, and destroyed like none other before he? He who had no mercy, and would not let the prisoners be free?" And here's a definite reference to Pharaoh. Pharaoh famously would not let the Jews go to their homeland, and the "Morning Star" is referring to Pharaoh. Babylon and Egypt are being typed together, as the Bible will do often with the nations. It links Moab, Tyre, Ziddon, Ammon and Philistia as principalities directly ruled by Satan; often making Satan the literal head of those states, as well.
18-19. All the kings lie in glory at their house. But, he is slain as one of the uncircumcised. His carcass is "Trodden under feet". He is killed ingloriously. He does not die in the full comfort of his kingdom. He dies, rather, the death of a worthless man. Many kings were killed this way in history. Alexander was embalmed alive, they say. Jezebel was thrown out of a window, and eaten by dogs. Absalom was hung on a tree, and gutted. Agamemnon, who I think is Nebuchadnezzar, was said to be avenged by his wife, for the slaying of Iphigenia. We have historical, Biblical, and mythological deaths of kings who acted unjustly.
20. The King of Babylon would not be set with the kings in burial. He will, rather, be slaughtered ungracefully, and be a corpse trodden down in the mire.
21. Even his children will be destroyed. They will not inhabit the land.
22. The LORD will cut off the remnant of Babylon, son and nephew. Even the nephew. There will be none in Babylon who survive, of the dynastic family. They will be all slain, which was fulfilled by Cyrus when he gained possession of the city. Cyrus won Babylon with his good will, and this verse here proclaims that the regency was killed off to the sum, down to the nephew and son.
23. The LORD will sweep it with the Besom of Destruction. My name means "Broom" which is another word for "Besom." I'm particularly happy about this verse, that it's one of the few verses in the Bible which relates to my name. That, and Elijah slept underneath a Broom Tree. But, the LORD will sweep away Babylon with a broom of destruction. Probably a pronged one, with metal thongs.
24. And as the LORD proposed it, it will pass. The LORD brought Jesus, prophesying Him in Genesis. In perfectly clear and unambiguous terms. Prophesied him in Exodus, by causing Israel to roam the desert in the pattern of a cross. Prophesied Him in the Law, by saying one set apart from the people must surely die---many other such prophecies, both in the Torah, the Prophets, and the histories.
25 - 27. Now the work calls Assyria the same as Babylon. In truth, they both had the same effect. They both were called upon God's people, to destroy them for their wickedness, and when the destruction was over, they were to be destroyed themselves. It isn't at all faulty to view Assyria and Babylon the same, nor Assyria and Syria. They were all agents of Satan, used to confront Israel and Judah in their time of sin, to cause them repentance. The LORD has purposed victory for those who believe in Him. That's the sum of it. He was faithful to bring Jesus. He'll be faithful to sweep Babylon away with the Besom of Destruction.
28. Confirming that this is indeed a prophecy. One of the nuances of scripture, that a bunch of scribes rushing to compile together couldn't fake. Ahaz was the king before Hezekiah, and the prophecy relating to Babylonian Captivity was before Hezekiah, who would famously show the treasures of the whole Kingdom to Babylon, and thus give them the notion to attack Judah some seventy years later. Dating this segment at Ahaz is something that a rushed compiling of scripture by a dozen or so Persian scribes couldn't recreate. It's too nuanced, and would certainly be more literary, and therefore more probable, to date the prophecy during Hezekiah. A rushed compiling of scripture to suzerain a satellite Persian State couldn't manufacture such nuance. Also, if it were true, why would Nehemiah have servants of Persia defying the king's orders? If the Jews were created on the spot by Persia to be suzerained, would the other nations attack a Persian dominion, after just being released from Persian rule? It would seem to foment another war, if such were the case that Persia was building a Satellite state in Jerusalem. And why, if it wished to create a myth of a Messiah, would it not do so for the Arabs, too, who were belligerents in this conflict? And, if the Bible were plagiarized, how could such contemporary details exist, such current politics, to place Arabian belligerents against Jerusalem? It seems, rather, the Bible is authentically the Jewish religion.
29. I believe this refers to today. Palestina is the realm of the Philistines, therefore, it is prophecying of the current conflict we have today. The rod which smote them will be broken. But, they are not to rejoice, because God will have judgment against them, too, in the latter days.
30. At the end of this conflict, when Satan's dominion is brought down, the poor will live in comfort, and they will lay down in safety. Their roots will not dry up in famine.
31. The city of Palestina---the seat of the Palestinian Government---will be dissolved. I only need let the reader imagine what this is referring to.
32. The LORD founded Zion. It shall survive. Jerusalem shall survive, and the city of destruction shall be destroyed, which oppresses Zion's borders.