Zion, A Safe Refuge

What shall one then answer the messengers of the nation? That the LORD hath founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall trust in it. Isaiah 14:32 In order to understand the comfort given to God's people in this text, we must understand a little bit of the background of these words from the mouth of the prophet Isaiah. First, beginning with verse 4 there is the proverb that God's people take up and sing about the destruction of Babylon. Babylon at the time was small, but the prophecy looks...