Isaiah 14:4-10

4Then you will laugh at the king of Babylon. You will say to him, ‘Now you cannot be cruel to us any more! Your power to cause trouble has finished!

5The Lord has destroyed the authority of wicked rulers like you.

6You used your power to attack people all the time. In your anger, you ruled over other nations, and you never stopped being cruel to them.

7But now there is peace in the whole world. People can live safely. Everyone is so happy that they are singing!

8Even the pine trees and the cedar trees in Lebanon are happy because your power has finished. They say to you, “Now God has knocked you down. So nobody will come again to cut us down!”

9The deep hole of death below the earth is ready to receive you! People there want to meet you. The spirits of those who ruled on the earth have heard that you are coming. They are standing up from their thrones.

10All of them will say to you, “Now you have become as weak as we are! You are weak like us!”