Isaiah 14:4–21

⁴That thou hast taken up this simile Concerning the king of Babylon, and said, How hath the exactor ceased, ⁵Ceased hath the golden one. Broken hath Jehovah the staff of the wicked, The sceptre of rulers. ⁶He who is smiting peoples in wrath, A smiting without intermission, He who is ruling in anger nations, Pursuing without restraint! ⁷At rest—quiet hath been all the earth, They have broken forth into singing. ⁸Even firs have rejoiced over thee, Cedars of Lebanon—saying: Since thou hast lain down, The hewer cometh not up against us. ⁹Sheol beneath hath been troubled at thee, To meet thy coming in, It is waking up for thee Rephaim, All chiefs ones of earth, It hath raised up from their thrones All kings of nations. ¹⁰All of them answer and say unto thee, Even thou hast become weak like us! Unto us thou hast become like! ¹¹Brought down to Sheol hath been thine excellency, The noise of thy psaltery, Under thee spread out hath been the worm, Yea, covering thee is the worm. ¹²How hast thou fallen from the heavens, O shining one, son of the dawn! Thou hast been cut down to earth, O weakener of nations. ¹³And thou saidst in thy heart: the heavens I go up, Above stars of God I raise my throne, And I sit in the mount of meeting in the sides of the north. ¹⁴I go up above the heights of a thick cloud, I am like to the Most High. ¹⁵Only—unto Sheol thou art brought down, Unto the sides of the pit. ¹⁶Thy beholders look to thee, to thee they attend, Is this the man causing the earth to tremble, Shaking kingdoms? ¹⁷He hath made the world as a wilderness, And his cities he hath broken down, Of his bound ones he opened not the house. ¹⁸All kings of nations—all of them, Have lain down in honour, each in his house, ¹⁹And—thou hast been cast out of thy grave, As an abominable branch, raiment of the slain, Thrust through ones of the sword, Going down unto the sons of the pit, As a carcase trodden down. ²⁰Thou art not united with them in burial, For thy land thou hast destroyed, Thy people thou hast slain, Not named to the age is the seed of evil doers. ²¹Prepare ye for his sons slaughter; Because of the iniquity of their fathers, They rise not, nor have possessed the land, Nor filled the face of the world with cities.