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Isaiah 14:7

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The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet. They break out in song.

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Verse 7. Earth. Subject to, or bordering upon the Assyrian empire. Under Darius the Mede, (the Cyaxares of Xenophon) and Cyrus, the people were little molested. Calmet.—The neighbouring princes (fir-trees, and so forth verse 8) were also at rest. Bible.

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