nkjv Isaiah:14:4-17
nkjv@Isaiah:14:4 @ that you will take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say: "How the oppressor has ceased, The golden city ceased!
nkjv@Isaiah:14:5 @ The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, The scepter of the rulers;
nkjv@Isaiah:14:6 @ He who struck the people in wrath with a continual stroke, He who ruled the nations in anger, Is persecuted and no one hinders.
nkjv@Isaiah:14:7 @ The whole earth is at rest and quiet; They break forth into singing.
nkjv@Isaiah:14:8 @ Indeed the cypress trees rejoice over you, And the cedars of Lebanon, Saying, "Since you were cut down, No woodsman has come up against us.'
nkjv@Isaiah:14:9 @ "Hell 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.
nkjv@Isaiah:14:10 @ They all shall speak and say to you: "Have you also become as weak as we? Have you become like us?
nkjv@Isaiah:14:11 @ Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, And the sound of your stringed instruments; The maggot is spread under you, And worms cover you.'
nkjv@Isaiah:14:12 @ "How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, You who weakened the nations!
nkjv@Isaiah:14:13 @ For you have said in your heart: "I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will also sit on the mount of the congregation On the farthest sides of the north;
nkjv@Isaiah:14:14 @ I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High.'
nkjv@Isaiah:14:15 @ Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, To the lowest depths of the Pit.
nkjv@Isaiah:14:16 @ "Those who see you will gaze at you, And consider you, saying: "Is this the man who made the earth tremble, Who shook kingdoms,
nkjv@Isaiah:14:17 @ Who made the world as a wilderness And destroyed its cities, Who did not open the house of his prisoners?'