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(A)Sheol from beneath trembles excitedly over you to meet you when you come;
It wakens for you the [a]spirits of the dead, all the [b]leaders of the earth;
It raises all the kings of the nations from their thrones.
10 (B)They will all answer and say to you,
‘Even you have been made weak as we,
You have become like us.
11 Your (C)pride and the music of your harps
Have been brought down to Sheol;
Maggots are spread out as your bed beneath you
And worms are your covering.’
12 How you have (D)fallen from heaven,
O [c](E)star of the morning, son of the dawn!
You have been cut down to the earth,
You who have weakened the nations!

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 14:9 Or shades
  2. Isaiah 14:9 Lit male goats
  3. Isaiah 14:12 Heb Helel; lit shining one

27 (A)Nor do they lie beside the fallen (B)mighty ones of the uncircumcised, who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war and whose swords were put under their heads; but the punishment for their (C)iniquity rested on their bones, though the terror of these mighty ones was once in the land of the living.

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