Isaiah 14:9–32

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.”

Babylon Destroyed

²²“For I will rise up against them,” says the Lord of hosts,

“And cut off from Babylon ^uthe name and ^vremnant,

^wAnd offspring and posterity,” says the Lord.

²³“I will also make it a possession for the ^xporcupine,

And marshes of muddy water;

I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,” says the Lord of hosts.

Assyria Destroyed

²⁴The Lord of hosts has sworn, saying,

“Surely, as I have thought, so it shall come to pass,

And as I have purposed, so it shall ^ystand:

²⁵That I will break the ^zAssyrian in My land,

And on My mountains tread him underfoot.

Then ^ahis yoke shall be removed from them,

And his burden removed from their shoulders.

²⁶This is the ^bpurpose that is purposed against the whole earth,

And this is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations.

²⁷For the Lord of hosts has ^cpurposed,

And who will annul it?

His hand is stretched out,

And who will turn it back?”

Philistia Destroyed

²⁸This is the ⁹burden which came in the year that ^dKing Ahaz died.

²⁹“Do not rejoice, all you of Philistia,

^eBecause the rod that struck you is broken;

For out of the serpent’s roots will come forth a viper,

^fAnd its offspring will be a fiery flying serpent.

³⁰The firstborn of the poor will feed,

And the needy will lie down in safety;

I will kill your roots with famine,

And it will slay your remnant.

³¹Wail, O gate! Cry, O city!

All you of Philistia are dissolved;

For smoke will come from the north,

And no one will be alone in his ¹appointed times.”

³²What will they answer the messengers of the nation?

That ^gthe Lord has founded Zion,

And ^hthe poor of His people shall take refuge in it.