Isaiah 14:3-23 - The Downfall Of The King Of Babylon
3 When the LORD now shall bring thee to rest; from the travail, fear, and hard bondage that thou wast laden withal. 4 Then shalt thou use this mockage upon the king of Babylon, and say: How happeneth that the oppressor leaveth off? Is the gold tribute come to an end? 5 Doubtless the LORD hath broken the staff of the ungodly, and the scepter of the lordly. 6 Which when he is wroth, smiteth the people with durable strokes, and in his wonders he persecuteth them, and tameth them continually. 7 And therefore the whole world is at rest and quietness, and men sing for joy. 8 Yea even the fir trees and Cedars of Lebanon rejoice at thy fall, saying, 'Now that thou art laid down, there come no more up to destroy us.'
9 Hell also trembleth at thy coming; all mighty men and princes of the earth step forth before thee. All kings of the earth stand up from their seats, 10 that they may all - one after another - sing and speak unto thee. Art thou wounded also as we? Art thou become like unto us? 11 Thy pomp and thy pride is gone down to hell: Moths shall be laid under thee, and worms shall be thy covering.
12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, thou fair morning child! How hast thou gotten a fall, even to the ground; thou that didst subdue the people? 13 For thou thoughtest in thine heart, "I will climb up into heaven, and make my seat above the stars of God; I will sit also upon the holy mount toward the North; 14 I will climb up above the clouds; and will be like the highest of all." 15 Yet dare I say, that thou shalt be brought down to the deep of hell.
16 They that seek thee, shall narrowly look upon thee, and think in themselves, saying, "Is this the man, that brought all lands in fear, and made the kingdoms afraid? 17 Is this he that made the world in a manner waste, and laid the cities to the ground, which let not his prisoners go home?" 18 The kings of the nations lie every one in his own house with worship, 19 and thou art cast out of thy grave like a wild branch - like as dead men's raiment that are shot through with the sword, as they that go down to the stones of the deep, as a dead corpse that is trodden under feet - 20 and art not buried with them. Even because that thou hast wasted thy land, and destroyed thy people. For the generation of the wicked shall be without honour, forever. 21 There shall a way be sought to destroy their children, for their fathers' wickedness: They shall not rise up again to possess the land, and fill the world full of castles and towns.
22 I will stand up against them, sayeth the LORD of Hosts, and root out the name and generation of Babylon, sayeth the LORD, 23 and will give it to the Otters, and will make water puddles of it. and I will sweep them out with the broom of destruction, sayeth the LORD of Hosts.