Midras Yesaya 14:5: Pesikta Rabbati, Otzar Midrashim, Bamidbar Rabbah & Shir HaShirim Rabbah

שָׁבַ֥ר יְהוָ֖ה מַטֵּ֣ה רְשָׁעִ֑ים שֵׁ֖בֶט מֹשְׁלִֽים׃

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Pesikta Rabbati

… it is written there “Behold the heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain You…” (Melachim I 8:27) and here it is written “…the glory of the Lord filled the Tabernacle.” (Shemot 40:35) R’ Yehoshua of Sachnin said in the name of R’ Levi ‘to what is this likened? To an open cave at the edge of the sea. When the sea storms the cave is filled, but the sea is not reduced. So too, even though it is written that ‘the glory of the Lord filled the Tabernacle’ the upper and lower worlds did not lose anything of the brilliance of the glory of the Holy One, just as it is written “Do I not fill the heavens and the earth? says the Lord.” (Yirmiyahu 23:24) Therefore it is written here ‘And it was’. Just as the Divine Presence was here below at the beginning of the creation of the world but withdrew to above, now it returned to be below as it had been “And it was that on the day that Moses finished…” (Bamidbar 7:1) ... [Another explanation. “And it was that on the day that Moses finished erecting the Mishkan…” (Numbers 7:1)] R’ Simon said: at the time when the Holy One told Israel to erect the Tabernacle, He hinted that when the Tabernacle below is erected, the Tabernacle above is erected, as it says “And it was that on the day that Moses finished…” (ibid.) It does not say ‘erecting the Tabernacle’ but rather ‘erecting this (et) the Tabernacle.’ This refers to the Tabernacle above. The Holy One said: in this world, when the Tabernacle was erected, I commanded Aharon and his sons that they bless you. In the time to come I, in my glory, will bless you. So it is written “May the Lord bless you from Zion, He Who made heaven and earth.” (Psalms 134:3)
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Otzar Midrashim

And the second king who will rise from the sons of Ishmael, he loves Israel, and he fences the openings of the temple and makes war with the sons of Esau and kills their soldiers. Peace from all sides, and he would love sheep and die in peace. And another king will stand up under him and hold the kingdom with his sword and bow, and there will be a fight in his days, sometimes in the east and sometimes in the west, sometimes in the north and sometimes in the south, and he will make war with everything, and when the Nirdon in the west falls on the sons of Ishmael in Damascus, the kingdom of Ishmael will fall, and at that time God said, Shabbar, the bed of the wicked. (Isaiah 14:5), and while the mighty sons of Kedar are still with him, a north easterly wind will blow against him and many victims will fall from him, the first on a stag, the second on the Euphrates, and the third between them, and he flees before them, and his sons will capture him and kill him and hang him on the trees. On that day, God will whistle to the fly, and the future of the "To whistle to the bees who are in the land of Assyria and make war with the Ashkenazim and the first king leads them and finds that he rebelled against their lord, as it is said: Thus said the Lord, the Holy Redeemer of Israel, to the abominable of a heathen, to the servant of governors (Isaiah 39:7), and who is the servant of governors?" This is what the Canaanites say, that they are detested by all the nations, for a slave of rulers to be a slave of rulers and he rebels against his master and they gather to him and gather with them people who rebelled against their masters and make war with the sons of Ishmael and kill their mighty men and inherit their wealth and property, and they are extremely skinned people and wear black and come from the east and they are Bitter and hasty, as it is said that I raise up the Chaldean's, the Gentiles are bitter and hasty (Habakkuk 1:6), and all of them are horsemen, as it is said, "Bitter and hasty'' (Nahum 3:3), And they come from a far country to live in a neighborhood that is not his, and they go up to the top of a mountain, and it is a mountain from the top of Israel, and they break into the temple and put out the candles and tear down the doors. And there will be four other kings, two of whom will be born and other years will stand over them, and in their days a son of David will arise, as it is said, and in the days of "Malachi'a Inun" (The Sad King) (Daniel 2:4). And the image of the first king is an old man and he does not have much beard, and the king is kneeling, his eyes are beautiful and his hair is beautiful and black, and they fail him (see Daniel's entry). And after him another will stand in dispute, and many soldiers will stand on the river Euphrates, and one day his soldiers in the north and in the south will fall and he will escape and be captured and imprisoned, and all the days he is in prison there will be peace in the land. And the fourth king loves silver and gold, and he is old and tall and has a mole about the size of his right foot, and he makes copper coins and buries them and stores them under a flower with silver and gold, and they are put away to the Messiah King, As it is said, "And I have given you treasures of darkness and hidden treasures" (Isaiah 3:3), And in his days a western horn will strike and he will send two recruits and they will kill the people of the east, and he will send others, and at the beginning of the week (Shemita) the first year there will be no rain in it, and in the second there will be half a famine, and in the third, there will be great famine and there will be no rain, and in the fourth, there will be a moderate one, and on the fifth, there will be a great abundance, and on the sixth, one star will rise from the east And he will rule by the scepter of fire like a lance, and they say, Oh, this star is ours, and it is not so, but the parable of Israel, which was said through the star of Jacob, and when it rises in the first watch of the night until two hours, and gathers fifteen days in the east and turns to the west and makes fifteen days, and if more - it is good for Israel.
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Bamidbar Rabbah

“Vayhi” – there was woe [vai haya]. Who said woe? Rabbi Avin said: As it were, the Holy One blessed be He said woe. To what is the matter comparable? It is to a king who had a cantankerous noblewoman wife. The king said to her: Fashion for me a royal purple garment. All her days that she was engaged in that garment, she did not complain. Days later, she completed the garment and gave it to the launderer. He prepared it and she brought it to the king. When the king saw her, he began shouting woe. Let her not return to her cantankerous nature. So, you find that Israel were complaining all the time, just as it is written: “The people complained against Moses” (Exodus 15:24), and likewise: “the entire congregation of the children of Israel complained [against Moses and against Aaron]” (Exodus 16:2), and likewise: “You have killed the people of the Lord” (Numbers 17:6). The Holy One blessed be He demanded that they craft a Sanctuary for Him, as it is written: “They shall craft a sanctuary for Me…” (Exodus 25:8). You find that all the days that they were engaged in the labor of the Tabernacle, they were not complaining. When they completed the labor of the Tabernacle, the Holy One blessed be He was shouting woe, let them not return to complaining like they used to complain.
“Vayhi” – the firstborn said woe because the priesthood had been taken from them, as until the Tabernacle was erected, the independent altars were permitted and the service was performed by the firstborn, as it is stated: “He sent the young men of the children of Israel, and they offered up burnt offerings…” (Exodus 24:5), and likewise it is written: “You shall ascend, and Aaron with you, but the priests and the people [shall not advance to ascend]” (Exodus 19:24). Rabbi Yehoshua ben Korḥa and Rabbi [Yehuda HaNasi]: One of them says: “The priests” – these are the firstborn; and the other said: These are Nadav and Avihu.
Likewise, it is written: “The Lord broke the staff of the wicked, the rod [of rulers]” (Isaiah 14:5). Rabbi Abba bar Mamal said: These are the firstborn; because they sacrificed to the calf, they lost the priesthood. Likewise, you find that all the priests who performed service for idol worship in the first Temple, the Holy One blessed be He disqualified them in the second Temple, as it is stated: “But the priests, the Levites, sons of Tzadok, [who kept the commission of My Sanctuary when the children of Israel strayed from Me, they shall approach Me to serve Me]” (Ezekiel 44:15). That is why the firstborn shouted woe when the Tabernacle was erected.
“Vayhi” – who said woe? The ministering angels said woe. They said: Now the Holy One blessed be He will forsake us and descend and reside on earth. Nevertheless, the Holy One blessed be He appeased them and said to them: As you live, the essence is on high, as it is written: “His glory covered the heavens” (Habakkuk 3:3), and then “His praise filled the earth” (Habakkuk 3:3). Rabbi Simon said in the name of Rabbi Yehoshua ben Levi: The Holy One blessed be He misled them when He said to them that the essence is on high. From where is that derived? It is as it is written: “His glory is on earth and the heavens” (Psalms 148:13) – first earth and then the heavens. That is why they said woe.
“Vayhi” – who said woe? The nations of the world said woe. Why woe? It is, rather, that this is what they said: Before the Holy One blessed be He was resting in their midst, He would stand over them and fight their wars; now that they crafted a Tabernacle for Him and He resides in their midst, all the more so. That is why they said woe.
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