1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible
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| Isaiah 14:7 | The whole earth is quiet and still; it is glad, and hath rejoiced. | 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, etc., ver. 8.) were also at rest. (Haydock) |