Isaiah 14:11-20

11Your pomp and magnificence have been brought down to Sheol, Along with the music of your harps; The maggots [which prey on the dead] are spread out under you [as a bed] And worms are your covering [Babylonian rulers].’

12How you have fallen from heaven, O star of the morning [light-bringer], son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, You who have weakened the nations [king of Babylon]!

13But you said in your heart, ‘I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throne above the stars of God; I will sit on the mount of assembly In the remote parts of the north.

14I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.’

15But [in fact] you will be brought down to Sheol, To the remote recesses of the pit (the region of the dead).

16Those who see you will gaze at you, They will consider you, saying, ‘Is this the man who made the earth tremble, Who shook kingdoms,

17Who made the world like a wilderness And overthrew its cities, Who did not permit his prisoners to return home?’

18All the kings of the nations, all of them lie [dead] in glorious array, Each one in his own sepulcher.

19But you [king of Babylon] have been cast out of your tomb (denied burial) Like a rejected branch, Clothed with the slain who are pierced by the sword, Who go down to the stones of the pit [into which carcasses are thrown], Like a dead body trampled [underfoot].

20You will not be united with them in burial, Because you have destroyed your land, You have slain your people. May the descendants of evildoers never be named!