Isaiah 14:4-23

⁴ that thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased,—the exactress of gold ceased! ⁵ Jehovah hath broken the staff of the wicked, the sceptre of the rulers. ⁶ He that smote the peoples in wrath with a relentless stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted unsparingly. ⁷ The whole earth is at rest, is quiet: they break forth into singing. ⁸ Even the cypresses rejoice at thee, the cedars of Lebanon, [saying,] Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us. ⁹ Sheol from beneath is moved for thee to meet [thee] at thy coming, stirring up the dead for thee, all the he-goats of the earth; making to rise from their thrones all the kings of the nations. ¹⁰ All of them shall answer and say unto thee, Art thou also become powerless as we; art thou become like unto us! ¹¹ —Thy pomp is brought down to Sheol, the noise of thy lyres: the maggot is spread under thee, and worms cover thee. ¹² How art thou fallen from heaven, Lucifer, son of the morning! Thou art cut down to the ground, that didst prostrate the nations! ¹³ And thou that didst say in thy heart, I will ascend into the heavens, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God, and I will sit upon the mount of assembly, in the recesses of the north; ¹⁴ I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High: ¹⁵ none the less art thou brought down to Sheol, to the recesses of the pit. ¹⁶ They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee; they shall consider thee, [saying,] Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that shook kingdoms; ¹⁷ [that] made the world as a wilderness, and overthrew the cities thereof; [that] dismissed not his prisoners homewards? ¹⁸ —All the kings of the nations, all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house; ¹⁹ but thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, covered with the slain—those thrust through with the sword, that go down to the stones of the pit: like a carcase trodden under foot. ²⁰ Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial; for thou hast destroyed thy land, hast slain thy people. Of the seed of evildoers no mention shall be made for ever. ²¹ Prepare ye slaughter for his children, because of the iniquity of their fathers; that they may not rise up and possess the earth, nor fill the face of the world with cities. ²² For I will rise up against them, saith Jehovah of hosts, and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, and scion and descendant, saith Jehovah. ²³ And I will make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water; and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith Jehovah of hosts.