Isaiah 14:9–32

⁹Sheol below is getting excited over you,

to meet you when you come;^e

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.

¹⁰All of them will respond and say to you,

‘You yourself also were made weak like us!

You have become the same as us!’

¹¹Your pride is brought down to Sheol,

and the sound of your harps;

maggots^f are spread out beneath you like a bed,

and your covering is worms.^g

¹²How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of dawn!

You are cut down to the ground, conqueror of nations!

¹³And 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;^h

¹⁴I will ascend to the high places of the clouds,ⁱ

I will make myself like the Most High.’

¹⁵But you are brought down to Sheol,

to the depths of the pit.

¹⁶Those 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,

¹⁷who made the world like the desert

and destroyed its cities,

who would not let his prisoners go home?’

¹⁸All the kings of the nations, all of them, lie in glory,

each one in his house.

¹⁹But 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.

²⁰You will not be united with them in burial

because you have destroyed your land,

you have killed your people.

The descendants^j of evildoers will not be mentioned for eternity!

²¹Prepare a place of slaughter for his sons

because of the sin of their ancestors.^k

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^l Yahweh of hosts,

“and I will cut off name and a remnant from Babylon,

and offspring and posterity,”

declares^m 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,”

declaresⁿ Yahweh of hosts.

Oracle of Judgment on Assyria

²⁴Yahweh of hosts has sworn, saying,

“Surely^o just as I have intended, so it shall be.

And just as I have planned, it shall stand:

²⁵to break Assyria in my land,

and I will trample him down on my mountains;

and he shall remove his yoke from them,

and he shall remove his burden from his^p shoulders.”^q

²⁶This is the plan that is planned concerning all of the earth;

and this is the hand that is stretched out over all of the nations.

²⁷For Yahweh of hosts has planned, and who will frustrate it?

And his hand is stretched out, and who will turn it back?

Oracle of Judgment on Philistia

²⁸In the year of the death of king Ahaz there was this oracle:

²⁹You must not rejoice, all you Philistines,

that the rod that struck you is broken,

for a viper will come forth from the root of the snake,

and its fruit will be a flying serpent.

³⁰And the firstborn of the poor will graze,

and the needy will lie down in security;

but I will cause your root to die in famine,

and it will kill your remnant.

³¹Wail, gate! Cry, city!

Melt,^r Philistia, all of you!

For smoke is coming from the north,

and there is no straggler in his ranks.

³²And what will one answer the messengers of the nation?

That Yahweh has founded Zion,

and the needy of his people will take refuge in it.