Isaiah 14:9-23
Lexham English Bible
9 Sheol below is getting excited over you,
to meet you when you come;[a]
it arouses the dead spirits for you,
all of the leaders of the earth.
It raises all of the kings of the nations from their thrones.
10 All of them will respond and say to you,
‘You yourself also were made weak like us!
You have become the same as us!’
11 Your pride is brought down to Sheol,
and the sound of your harps;
maggots[b] are spread out beneath you like a bed,
and your covering is worms.[c]
12 How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of dawn!
You are cut down to the ground, conqueror of nations!
13 And you yourself said in your heart,
‘I will ascend to heaven;
I will raise up my throne above the stars of God;
and I will sit on the mountain of assembly
on the summit of Zaphon;[d]
14 I will ascend to the high places of the clouds,[e]
I will make myself like the Most High.’
15 But you are brought down to Sheol,
to the depths of the pit.
16 Those who see you will stare at you,
they will look closely at you:
‘Is this the man who made the earth tremble,
who caused kingdoms to shake,
17 who made the world like the desert
and destroyed its cities,
who would not let his prisoners go home?’
18 All the kings of the nations, all of them, lie in glory,
each one in his house.
19 But as for you, you are thrown away from your grave,
like an abhorrent shoot,
clothed with the slain,
those pierced by the sword,
those who go down to the stones of the pit,
like a corpse that is trodden down.
20 You will not be united with them in burial
because you have destroyed your land,
you have killed your people.
The descendants[f] of evildoers will not be mentioned for eternity!
21 Prepare a place of slaughter for his sons
because of the sin of their ancestors.[g]
Let them not rise and take possession of the earth
or fill up the face of the world with cities.”
22 “And I will rise up against them,”
declares[h] Yahweh of hosts,
“and I will cut off name and a remnant from Babylon,
and offspring and posterity,”
declares[i] Yahweh.
23 “And I will make her a possession of the hedgehog,
and pools of water,
and I will sweep her away with the broom of destruction,”
declares[j] Yahweh of hosts.
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- Isaiah 14:9 Literally “your entrance”
- Isaiah 14:11 Hebrew “maggot”
- Isaiah 14:11 Hebrew “worm”
- Isaiah 14:13 Or “of the north”
- Isaiah 14:14 Hebrew “cloud”
- Isaiah 14:20 Hebrew “descendant”
- Isaiah 14:21 Or “fathers”
- Isaiah 14:22 Literally “declaration of”
- Isaiah 14:22 Literally “declaration of”
- Isaiah 14:23 Literally “declaration of”
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