Isaiah 14:3

“And it shall come to pass in the day that the Lord shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, &c.] In captivity, and on account of that, being out of their own land, deprived of the free exercise of their religion, and at a distance from the house of God, and continually hearing the reproaches and blaspheming of the enemy, and seeing their idolatrous practices, and their ungodly conversation; all which must create sorrow of heart to the sincere lovers and worshippers of God: and from thy fear; of worse evils, most cruel usage, and death itself, under the terror of which they lived: and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve; as before in Egypt, so now in Babylon; but what that was…”

“rest-- (Isa 28:12; Eze 28:25-26). The whole earth rejoices; the cedars of Lebanon taunt him.”

“And it shall come to pass - That is, then thou shalt take up a taunting song against the king of Babylon Isaiah 14:4. That the Lord shall give thee rest - (compare Isaiah 38:12). The nature of this predicted rest, is more fully described in Ezekiel 28:25-26. From thy sorrow - The long pain of thy captivity in Babylon. And from thy fear - Hebrew, ‘Trembling.’ That is, the apprehension of the ills to which they were continually exposed. Trembling is usually one effect of fear. And from thy hard bondage - The severe and galling servitude of seventy years. return to 'Top of Page'”

“14:3-23 This taunting song for the king of Babylon is in the form of a funeral dirge (cp. Rev 18). 14:3 God gives . . . rest (i.e., relief; 28:12; see Deut 25:19; 2 Sam 7:11) from the sorrow and fear, . . . slavery and chains Israel experienced under foreign oppressors (see Isa 9:4).”

“Isa 12:1, Isa 32:18; Deu 28:48, Deu 28:65-68; Ezr 9:8, Ezr 9:9; Jer 30:10, Jer 46:27, Jer 46:28, Jer 50:34; Eze 28:24; Zac 8:2, Zac 8:8; Rev 18:20, Rev 19:1-3 Isaiah 14:4”

“The song of the redeemed is a song concerning the fall of the king of Babel. Isa 14:3, Isa 14:4. Instead of the hiphil hinniach (to let down) of Isa 14:1, we have here, as in the original passage, Deu 25:19, the form hēniach, which is commonly used in the sense of quieting, or procuring rest. עצב is trouble which plagues (as עמל is trouble which oppresses), and rōgez restlessness which wears out with anxious care ( Job 3:26, cf., Eze 12:18). The assimilated min before the two words is pronounced mĭ, with a weak reduplication, instead of mē, as elsewhere, before ח, ה, and even before ר ( Sa1 23:28; Sa2 18:16). In the relative clause עבּד־בך אשר, אשר is not the Hebrew casus adverb.…”