Isaiah 14:4–21

⁴that you ^fwill take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say:

“How the oppressor has ceased,

The ^ggolden ¹city ceased!

⁵The Lord has broken ^hthe staff of the wicked,

The scepter of the rulers;

⁶He who struck the people in wrath with a continual stroke,

He who ruled the nations in anger,

Is persecuted and no one hinders.

⁷The whole earth is at rest and quiet;

They break forth into singing.

⁸ⁱIndeed the cypress trees rejoice over you,

And the cedars of Lebanon,

Saying, ‘Since you ²were cut down,

No woodsman has come up against us.’

⁹“Hell ^j3from beneath is excited about you,

To meet you at your coming;

It stirs up the dead for you,

All the chief ones of the earth;

It has raised up from their thrones

All the kings of the nations.

¹⁰They all shall ^kspeak and say to you:

‘Have you also become as weak as we?

Have you become like us?

¹¹Your pomp is brought down to Sheol,

And the sound of your stringed instruments;

The maggot is spread under you,

And worms cover you.’

The Fall of Lucifer

¹²“How ^lyou are fallen from heaven,

O ⁴Lucifer, son of the morning!

How you are cut down to the ground,

You who weakened the nations!

¹³For you have said in your heart:

^m‘I will ascend into heaven,

ⁿI will exalt my throne above the stars of God;

I will also sit on the ^omount of the congregation

^pOn the farthest sides of the north;

¹⁴I will ascend above the heights of the clouds,

^qI will be like the Most High.’

¹⁵Yet you ^rshall be brought down to Sheol,

To the ⁵lowest depths of the Pit.

¹⁶“Those who see you will gaze at you,

And consider you, saying:

‘Is this the man who made the earth tremble,

Who shook kingdoms,

¹⁷Who made the world as a wilderness

And destroyed its cities,

Who ⁶did not open the house of his prisoners?’

¹⁸“All the kings of the nations,

All of them, sleep in glory,

Everyone in his own house;

¹⁹But you are cast out of your grave

Like an ⁷abominable branch,

Like the garment of those who are slain,

⁸Thrust through with a sword,

Who go down to the stones of the pit,

Like a corpse trodden underfoot.

²⁰You will not be joined with them in burial,

Because you have destroyed your land

And slain your people.

^sThe brood of evildoers shall never be named.

²¹Prepare slaughter for his children

^tBecause of the iniquity of their fathers,

Lest they rise up and possess the land,

And fill the face of the world with cities.”