Isaiah 14:12-23

English Standard Version

¹² “How ^(A)you are fallen from heaven,
    O Day Star, ^(B)son of Dawn!
How you are cut down to the ground,
    you who laid the nations low!
¹³ You said in your heart,
    ^(C)‘I will ascend to heaven;
above the stars of God
    ^(D)I will set my throne on high;
I will sit on the mount of assembly
    in the far reaches of the north;^[a]
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds;
    I will make myself like the Most High.’
^15 (E)But you are brought down to Sheol,
    to the far reaches of the pit.
¹⁶ Those who see you will stare at you
    and ponder over you:
‘Is this ^(F)the man who made the earth tremble,
    who shook kingdoms,
¹⁷ who made the world like a desert
    and overthrew its cities,
    ^(G)who did not let his prisoners go home?’
¹⁸ All the kings of the nations lie in glory,
    each in his own tomb;^[b]
19 but you are cast out, away from your grave,
    like a loathed branch,
^(H)clothed with the slain, those pierced by the sword,
    who go down to the stones of the pit,
    like a dead body trampled underfoot.
²⁰ You will not be joined with them in burial,
    because you have destroyed your land,
    you have slain your people.

“May ^(I)the offspring of evildoers
    nevermore be named!
²¹ Prepare slaughter for his sons
    ^(J)because of the guilt of their fathers,
lest they rise and possess the earth,
    and fill the face of the world with cities.”