16 Those who see you will stare at you and ponder over you: ‘Is this the man who made the earth tremble, who shook kingdoms, 17 who made the world like a desert and overthrew its cities, who did not let his prisoners go home?’
Some people see an oblique reference to the king of Babylon to the fall of Satan. There is little exegetical evidence for that, but the fall of this mighty empire is certain. Babylon itself will be conquered by the Medo-Persian empire, a fact to which history will later attest.
"Spectators will stand amazed at his fall . . . 'Never was death so great a change to any man as it is to him. Is it possible that a man, who a few hours ago looked so great, so pleasant, and was so splendidly adorned and attended, should now look so ghastly, so despicable, and lie thus naked and neglected? Is this the man that made the earth to tremble and shook kingdoms?'" [1]
"In the end, the king is just a man whose time passes like all earthly rulers. No matter how powerful a king is during his reign, he will eventually die." [2] Our God is sovereign and rules over all rulers. He is the King of kings. “Toward the scorners he is scornful, but to the humble he gives favor.” (Proverbs 3:34, ESV)
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1. Henry, M. (1994). Matthew Henry’s commentary on the whole Bible: complete and unabridged in one volume (p. 1106). Peabody: Hendrickson.
2. Barry, J. D., Heiser, M. S., Custis, M., Mangum, D., & Whitehead, M. M. (2012). Faithlife Study Bible (Is 14:16). Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software.
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