Isaiah 14:4-24 And you lift up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say in that day, "How ceases the exactor! Ceases the audacious city!"

CLV⁽ⁱ⁾ ⁴ And you lift up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say in that day, "How ceases the exactor! Ceases the audacious city!" ⁵ Yahweh has broken the rod of the wicked, the scepter of rulers." ⁶ Smitten are peoples in a rage, a smiting barring withdrawal. Swaying, in anger, over nations, pursuing, failing to keep back." ⁷ At rest, quiet, is the entire earth. Crash do they into jubilation." ⁸ Moreover, the firs rejoice for you, the cedars of Lebanon:"Since you lie down, the cutter is not coming up against us." ⁹ The unseen, beneath, is disturbed for you, to meet you at your coming. It rouses for you all the healers, all the he-goats of the earth. It raises from their thrones all the kings of the nations." ¹⁰ All of them are answering and saying to you, "Even you are ill as what we were! To us are you comparable!" ¹¹ Down to the unseen is brought your pomp, the throngs of your exulters. The maggot is berthing under you, and the worm is covering you." ¹² How you have fallen from the heavens! Howl, son of the dawn! You are hacked down to the earth, defeater of all nations!" ¹³ Yet you, you said in your heart, "To the heavens will I ascend! Above the stars of El will I raise high my throne, and I will sit in the mount of appointment, in the flanks of the north." ¹⁴ I will ascend on the fane heights of a thick cloud; I am likening myself to the Supreme!" ¹⁵ Yea, to the unseen shall you be brought down, to the flanks of a crypt!" ¹⁶ Those seeing you will peer at you and consider you:"Is this the man who was the disturber of the earth, the quaker of kingdoms? ¹⁷ He made all the habitance as a wilderness, and its cities he demolished, for his prisoners he opened not a homeward way." ¹⁸ All kings of nations--all of them lie in state, each man in his own house, ¹⁹ yet you were flung from your tomb as a scion abhorrent, as many who were killed, spurred with a sword, who went down to the stones of the crypt as a corpse being trampled." ²⁰ You shall not unite with them in the tomb, "For you ruined My land, you killed My people. You shall not be proclaimed for the eon, you seed of evil doers!" ²¹ Prepare a slaughter for his sons, for the depravity of their fathers. They will fail to rise and tenant the earth, and fill the surface of the habitance with cities." ²² And I rise against them,averring is Yahweh of hosts. "And I cut off from Babylon the name and remnant, and propagator and progeny,averring is Yahweh." ²³ And I make Babylon desolate, for a tenancy of the hedgehog, with watery marshes, and I mop it with the mop of extermination,averring is Yahweh of hosts." ²⁴ Sworn has Yahweh of hosts, saying, "Should it not, as I likened it, so come to be, and as I counseled it, be arising?