Isaiah:14:4-20
rsv@Isaiah:14:4 @ you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon: "How the oppressor has ceased, the insolent fury ceased!
rsv@Isaiah:14:5 @ The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of rulers,
rsv@Isaiah:14:6 @ that smote the peoples in wrath with unceasing blows, that ruled the nations in anger with unrelenting persecution.
rsv@Isaiah:14:7 @ The whole earth is at rest and quiet; they break forth into singing.
rsv@Isaiah:14:8 @ The cypresses rejoice at you, the cedars of Lebanon, saying, `Since you were laid low, no hewer comes up against us.'
rsv@Isaiah:14:9 @ Sheol beneath is stirred up to meet you when you come, it rouses the shades to greet you, all who were leaders of the earth; it raises from their thrones all who were kings of the nations.
rsv@Isaiah:14:10 @ All of them will speak and say to you: `You too have become as weak as we! You have become like us!'
rsv@Isaiah:14:11 @ Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, the sound of your harps; maggots are the bed beneath you, and worms are your covering.
rsv@Isaiah:14:12 @ "How you are fallen from heaven, O Day Star, son of Dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, you who laid the nations low!
rsv@Isaiah:14:13 @ You said in your heart, `I will ascend to heaven; above the stars of God I will set my throne on high; I will sit on the mount of assembly in the far north;
rsv@Isaiah:14:14 @ I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will make myself like the Most High.'
rsv@Isaiah:14:15 @ But you are brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the Pit.
rsv@Isaiah:14:16 @ Those who see you will stare at you, and ponder over you: `Is this the man who made the earth tremble, who shook kingdoms,
rsv@Isaiah:14:17 @ who made the world like a desert and overthrew its cities, who did not let his prisoners go home?'
rsv@Isaiah:14:18 @ All the kings of the nations lie in glory, each in his own tomb;
rsv@Isaiah:14:19 @ but you are cast out, away from your sepulchre, like a loathed untimely birth, clothed with the slain, those pierced by the sword, who go down to the stones of the Pit, like a dead body trodden under foot.
rsv@Isaiah:14:20 @ You will not be joined with them in burial, because you have destroyed your land, you have slain your people. "May the descendants of evildoers nevermore be named!
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