Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

Your pride is brought down to the grave, and the noise of your harps. The maggot is spread under you, and the worms cover you.

New American Standard Bible

‘Your pomp and the music of your harps
Have been brought down to Sheol;
Maggots are spread out as your bed beneath you
And worms are your covering.’

King James Version

Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.

Holman Bible

Your splendor has been brought down to Sheol,
along with the music of your harps.
Maggots are spread out under you,
and worms cover you.”

International Standard Version

Your pomp has been brought down to Sheol, along with the noise of your harps. Maggots are spread out beneath you, and worms are your covering."

A Conservative Version

Thy pomp is brought down to Sheol, [and] the noise of thy viols. The worm is spread under thee, and worms cover thee.

American Standard Version

Thy pomp is brought down to Sheol, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and worms cover thee.

Amplified


‘Your 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].’

Bible in Basic English

Your pride has gone down into the underworld, and the noise of your instruments of music; the worms are under you, and your body is covered with them.

Darby Translation

thy pomp is brought down to Sheol, the noise of thy lyres: the maggot is spread under thee, And worms cover thee.

Julia Smith Translation

Thy grandeur was brought down to hades, the sound of thy harps: the worm was spread under thee, and worms covering thee.

King James 2000

Your pomp is brought down to the grave, and the sound of your harps: the maggot is spread under you, and the worms cover you.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Your pride is brought down [to] Sheol, [and] the sound of your harps; maggots are spread out beneath you like a bed, and your covering is worms.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Thy pomp and thy pride is gone down to hell: Moths shall be laid under thee, and worms shall be thy covering.

NET Bible

Your splendor has been brought down to Sheol, as well as the sound of your stringed instruments. You lie on a bed of maggots, with a blanket of worms over you.

New Heart English Bible

Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, with the sound of your stringed instruments. Maggots are spread out under you, and worms cover you.

The Emphasized Bible

Brought down to Hades, thy pride. The hum of thy harps, Beneath thee, is spread out corruption, And, thy coverlet - worms!

Webster

Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.

World English Bible

Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, with the sound of your stringed instruments. Maggots are spread out under you, and worms cover you.

Youngs Literal Translation

Brought down to Sheol hath been thine excellency, The noise of thy psaltery, Under thee spread out hath been the worm, Yea, covering thee is the worm.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
גּאון 
Ga'own 
Usage: 49

ירד 
Yarad 
Usage: 378

to the grave
שׁאל שׁאול 
Sh@'owl 
Usage: 65

and the noise
המיה 
hemyah 
Usage: 1

of thy viols
נבל נבל 
Nebel 
Usage: 38

the worm
רמּה 
Rimmah 
Usage: 7

is spread
יצע 
Yatsa` 
Usage: 4

under thee, and the worms
תּלעת תּולעת תּולעה תּולע 
Towla` 
Usage: 43

מכסּה 
M@kacceh 
Usage: 4

References

Context Readings

The Downfall Of The King Of Babylon

10 All of them shall speak and say to you, Are you also as weak as we? Are you like us? 11 Your pride is brought down to the grave, and the noise of your harps. The maggot is spread under you, and the worms cover you. 12 How you are fallen from the heavens, O shining star, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, you who weakened the nations!

Cross References

Job 17:13-14

If I wait for the grave as my home, I have made my bed in the darkness;

Job 21:11-15

They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.

Job 24:19-20

Drought and heat eat up the snow waters; so does the grave those who have sinned.

Isaiah 21:4-5

My heart wanders, terror overwhelms me; He has turned the twilight of my pleasure into trembling.

Isaiah 22:2

Crashings fill the noisy city, the joyous city. Your slain ones are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.

Isaiah 66:24

And they will go out and see the dead bodies of the men who have sinned against Me; for their worm will not die, nor will their fire be put out; and they will be an object of disgust to all flesh.

Ezekiel 26:13

And I will cause the noise of your songs to cease; and the sound of your harps shall be heard no more.

Ezekiel 32:19-20

Than whom are you more lovely? Go down and be laid with the uncircumcised.

Daniel 5:1-4

Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand.

Daniel 5:25-30

And this is the writing that was written, A MINA, A MINA, A SHEKEL, AND HALF-MINAS.

Amos 6:3-7

You who put the evil day far away, and cause the seat of violence to come near;

Mark 9:43-48

And if your hand offends you, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed than to have two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched

Revelation 18:11-19

And the merchants of the earth will weep and mourn over her, for no one buys their cargo any more;

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