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10     These departed souls will respond to you with rattling voices,

Departed Souls: Even you, who were so powerful and unstoppable in life,
        have been weakened just like us!
11     All of your pomp and power and the music of your harps join you here
        where the dead abide,
    Where maggots squirm beneath you,
        where worms cover you like a blanket.

12 My, how you’ve fallen from the heights of heaven!
    O morning star, son of the dawn!
What a star you were, as you menaced and weakened the nations,
    but now you’ve been cut down, fallen to earth.

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