Isaiah 14:10–18
10They all will answer and ask you, “Have you also become as weak as we are? Have you become like us?”↗
11Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, with the sound of your stringed instruments. Maggots are spread out under you, and worms cover you.↗
12How you have fallen from heaven, shining one, son of the dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low!↗
13You said in your heart, “I will ascend into heaven! I will exalt my throne above the stars of God! I will sit on the mountain of assembly, in the far north!↗
14I will ascend above the heights of the clouds! I will make myself like the Most High!”↗
15Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the pit.↗
16Those who see you will stare at you. They will ponder you, saying, “Is this the man who made the earth to tremble, who shook kingdoms,↗
17who made the world like a wilderness, and overthrew its cities, who didn’t release his prisoners to their home?”↗
18All the kings of the nations sleep in glory, everyone in his own house.↗
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