Isaiah 14:6
6 He who smote [nakah] the people [`am] in wrath [`ebrah] with a
continual [biltiy] [carah] stroke [makkah], he that
ruled [radah] the nations [gowy] in anger ['aph], is
persecuted [murdaph], and none [baliy] hindereth [chasak]. KJV-Interlinear
6 Which used to strike the
peoples in fury with unceasing strokes, Which subdued the nations in anger with
unrestrained persecution. NASB
Which or who, refers to
Babylon and its rulers and its people, who while the boundaries of the empire were
spreading and during its time as an empire, was relentless and unswerving,
without cessation, in the placement of burdens and problems and hardships that
it brought onto its people.
Babylon is
representative of the world in general. The world brings relentless and
unswerving, without cessation, burdens and problems and hardships onto
humanity.
The phrase, and none hindereth,
refers to the nations or world in general. With Babylon referring to the
dominant force in the world, and the nations or rest of the world not offering
any restraint or hindrance to its aggression, then that is a picture being
painted here with regard to world history.
And so this verse strikes
at the heart of why Babylon is destroyed and why humanity can never get
anywhere.
The dominant forces of
the world are evil by default, and they pursue evil by default. The subordinate
forces of the world don’t try to stop it, and if they do try, then their
efforts are to no avail.
During the tribulation,
this truth will be more than apparent, since all believers in Christ will be
removed from the world at the rapture, and all restraint against evil will be
lifted, therefore leaving humanity to do what it does best when it ignores and
rejects God. And that is, that it fails miserably.
And in those final days
of history, God will have to bring everything to a dramatically crashing halt
in order to save humanity from itself.
