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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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10 They will all respond,
    they will say to you,
“You also have become weak, as we are;
    you have become like us.”(A)
11 All your pomp has been brought down to the grave,(B)
    along with the noise of your harps;(C)
maggots are spread out beneath you
    and worms(D) cover you.(E)

12 How you have fallen(F) from heaven,
    morning star,(G) son of the dawn!
You have been cast down to the earth,
    you who once laid low the nations!(H)

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