Isaiah 14:11-20

11Your great power has now come down low, into the deep hole of death. People no longer praise you with their harps. Now you will lie on a bed of maggots. A blanket of worms will cover you.

12Look at you! You have fallen from heaven! You shine like the bright morning star! You have won against many nations, but now you have come down very low!

13You said to yourself, “I will go up into heaven. I will put my throne above the stars of God. I will rule as king on the mountain in the far north, where the gods of the nations meet together.

14I will go up above the tops of the clouds. I will become like the Most High God.”

15But instead of that, you have come down into the deep hole of death. You have fallen to the deepest place under the earth.

16In that deep place, people will look at you carefully. They will be very surprised. They will think, “This is the man who caused the earth to shake. He caused kingdoms to shake with fear. Is that really true?

17Is this really the man who made the world become like a desert? He destroyed its cities. He did not let his prisoners go back to their homes.”

18All the kings of all the nations lie down there, with all their valuable things. Each king lies in his own grave.

19But as for you, Babylon's king, they have thrown you out! You have no grave! You are like a branch that has broken off. You lie among the dead bodies of soldiers that their enemies have killed with their swords. They have thrown your body into a big hole in the rocks, and they have walked over it.

20They will not bury you with those other kings, because you destroyed your land and you killed your people. Nobody will ever remember the family of a wicked person like you.