Isaiah 14:3-11

New King James Version

Fall of the King of Babylon

³It shall come to pass in the day the Lord gives you rest from your sorrow, and from your fear and the hard bondage in which you were made to serve, ⁴that you ^(A)will take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say:

“How the oppressor has ceased,
The ^(B)golden^[a] city ceased!
⁵The Lord has broken ^(C)the staff of the wicked,
The scepter of the rulers;
⁶He who struck the people in wrath with a continual stroke,
He who ruled the nations in anger,
Is persecuted and no one hinders.
⁷The whole earth is at rest and quiet;
They break forth into singing.
⁸^(D)Indeed the cypress trees rejoice over you,
And the cedars of Lebanon,
Saying, ‘Since you ^[b]were cut down,
No woodsman has come up against us.’

⁹“Hell^(E)^[c] from beneath is excited about you,
To meet you at your coming;
It stirs up the dead for you,
All the chief ones of the earth;
It has raised up from their thrones
All the kings of the nations.
¹⁰They all shall ^(F)speak and say to you:
‘Have you also become as weak as we?
Have you become like us?
¹¹Your pomp is brought down to Sheol,
And the sound of your stringed instruments;
The maggot is spread under you,
And worms cover you.’