Isaiah 14:12-20

Common English Bible

¹² How you’ve fallen from heaven,
    morning star, son of dawn!
You are cut down to earth,
    helpless on your back!
¹³ You said to yourself, I will climb up to heaven;
    above God’s stars, I will raise my throne.
I’ll sit on the mount of assembly,
    on the heights of Zaphon.
¹⁴ I’ll go up to the cloud tops;
    I’ll be like the Most High!
¹⁵ But down to the underworld^[a] you are brought,
    to the depths of the pit.

¹⁶ Those who see you will stare at you;
        they will examine you closely:
    “Is this the man who rattled the earth,
        who shook kingdoms,
¹⁷         who made the world a wasteland
        and tore down its cities,
        and wouldn’t let his prisoners go home?”
¹⁸ All the kings of the nations lie down honored,
        all of them, each in his own tomb.
¹⁹     But you are cast away from your own grave
        like a rejected branch,
        covered by the dead
        and those pierced by the sword—
        who go down to the stony pit—
        like a trampled corpse.
²⁰ You won’t join them in burial,
    for you destroyed your own land;
    you killed your own people.
Such evil offspring will never be mentioned again!