Isaiah 14:8

Fir trees. Heb. beroshim, “[Phoenician] junipers.” In highly figurative language the “king of Babylon” (v. 4) is compared to a tree (see Dan. 4:11, 22; cf. Judges 9:8-15; Eze. 31:16). The other “trees” of the “forest” rejoice when this pretentious and arrogant “tree” is laid low. The Assyrian monarchs boasted of cutting down the forests and leaving the country a desolate waste (see Isa. 37:24). The armies of Babylon likewise wrought wide devastation (see Jer. 25:11). There is universal rejoicing when the work of destruction comes to its end. Compare the rejoicing of “apostles and prophets” at the fall of mystical Babylon (Rev. 18:20; cf. Rev. 19:1-6).

No feller. Or, “hewer,” that is, “woods-man.” No one now comes to fell the trees, and the forests of earth rejoice at their deliverance.