Isaiah 14:4-20

4you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon and say: “How the taskmaster has ceased! The raging oppressor, exacter of gold, has ceased!

5Adonai has broken the rod of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers,

6which struck the people in wrath with continual strokes, which ruled the nations in fury, with relentless persecution.

7The whole earth is at rest, and quiet. They break forth with a ringing cry!

8Even the cypress trees rejoice over you, along with the cedars of Lebanon: “Since you were laid low, no woodcutter comes up against us.”

9Sheol from below is excited about you, to meet you at your coming! He stirs up the dead spirits for you, even the chief ones of the earth. He makes all the kings of the nations rise up from their thrones.

10They all answer and say to you: “Even you have become as weak as us? Have you become like us?

11Your pomp is brought down to Sheol with the music of your harps. Maggots are spread out under you, and worms cover you.”

12How you have fallen from heaven, O brightstar, son of the dawn! How you are cut down to the earth, you who made the nations prostrate!

13You said in your heart: “I will ascend to heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God. I will sit upon the mount of meeting, in the uttermost parts of the north.

14I will ascend above the high places of the clouds— I will make myself like Elyon.”

15Yet you will be brought down to Sheol, to the lowest parts of the Pit.

16Those who see you will stare at you, reflecting on what has become of you: “Is this the one who shook the earth, who made kingdoms tremble,

17who made the world a wilderness and destroyed its cities, who never opened the house of his prisoners?”

18All the kings of the nations, all of them, lie in glory, each in his own house.

19But you are cast out of your tomb as a discarded branch, garment of the slain, pierced with a sword, dumped into a stony pit, a corpse trodden underfoot.

20You will not join with them in burial, because you ruined your land, you slaughtered your own people. The offspring of evildoers will never be named.