9 Sheol below is eager to greet your coming,

stirring up the spirits of the departed for you—

all the rulersC of the earth—

making all the kings of the nations

rise from their thrones.

10 They all respond to you, saying,

“You too have become as weak as we are;

you have become like us!

11 Your splendor has been brought down to Sheol,

along with the music of your harps.

Maggots are spread out under you,

and worms cover you.”

12 Shining morning star,A,a

how you have fallen from the heavens!b

You destroyer of nations,

you have been cut down to the ground.

13 You said to yourself,

“I will ascend to the heavens;c

I will set up my throne

above the stars of God.d

I will sit on the mount of the gods’ assembly,

in the remotest parts of the North.B,e

14 I will ascend above the highest clouds;

I will make myself like the Most High.”

15 But you will be brought down to Sheol

into the deepest regions of the Pit.f

16 Those who see you will stare at you;

they will look closely at you:

“Is this the man who caused the earth to tremble,

who shook the kingdoms,

17 who turned the world into a wilderness,g

who destroyed its cities

and would not release the prisoners to return home?”

18 All the kings of the nations

lie in splendor, each in his own tomb.

19 But you are thrown out without a grave,

like a worthless branch,

covered by those slain with the sword

and dumped into a rocky pit like a trampled corpse.

20 You will not join them in burial,

because you destroyed your land

and slaughtered your own people.

The offspring of evildoers

will never be mentioned again.h

21 Prepare a place of slaughter for his sons,

because of the iniquityi of their ancestors.

They will never rise up to possess a land

or fill the surface of the earth with cities.