Isaiah 14:3-23 - The Downfall Of The King Of Babylon

³ When that day comes, Jehovah will give you relief from your pain and suffering, from the hard slavery you were forced to do. ⁴ You will mock the king of Babylon with this saying: How the tyrant has come to an end! How his attacks have come to an end! ⁵ Jehovah has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of rulers. ⁶ They struck the people with fury, with blows that did not stop. They ruled nations in anger, persecuting them without restraint. ⁷ The whole earth rests and is quiet. It breaks out into shouts of joy. ⁸ Even the cypress trees rejoice over you. The cedars of Lebanon say: 'Since you have fallen, no lumberjack has come to attack us.'

⁹ The grave below wakes up to meet you when you come. It wakes up those who are dead, all who were leaders on earth. It raises all who were kings of the nations from their thrones. ¹⁰ All of them will greet you: 'You also have become weak like us! You have become like one of us! ¹¹ Your pride has been brought down to the grave along with the music of your harps. Maggots are spread out like a bed under you, and worms cover you.'

¹² O how you have fallen from heaven, you morning star (shining one), and son of the dawn! How you have been cut down to the ground, you who conquered nations! ¹³ You thought: 'I will go up to heaven (Mount Zion) and set up my throne above God's stars (messengers). I will sit on the mountain of meeting far away in the north where the gods assemble. ¹⁴ I will go above the top of the clouds. I will be like the Most High.' ¹⁵ But you have been brought down to the grave, to the deepest part of the pit.

¹⁶ Those who see you stare at you. They look at you closely and say: 'Is this the man who made the earth tremble, who shook the kingdoms, ¹⁷ who made the world like a desert and tore down its cities and did not let his prisoners go home?' ¹⁸ All the kings of the nations, all of them, have been buried with honor, each in his own tomb. ¹⁹ However you are thrown out of your tomb like a rejected branch. You are covered with those who were killed in battle. You go down to the stones (bottom) of the pit like a trampled corpse. ²⁰ You ruined your country and killed your own people. For that reason, you will not be buried like other kings. None of your evil family will survive. ²¹ Prepare a slaughtering place! The sons of this king will die because of their ancestors' sins. None of them will ever rule the earth or cover it with cities.

²² Jehovah of Hosts declares: I will attack Babylon and bring it to ruin. I will leave nothing! There will be no children, no survivors at all. I, Jehovah, have spoken. ²³ I will turn Babylon into a marsh. Porcupines will live there. I will sweep Babylon with a broom that will sweep everything away. I, the Sovereign Lord Jehovah have spoken.