Charles Ellicott Commentary Isaiah 14:19

"But thou art cast forth away from thy sepulchre like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, that are thrust through with the sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a dead body trodden under foot." — Isaiah 14:19 (ASV)

Like an abominable branch. —The noun is the same as in Isaiah 11:1 and Isaiah 60:21. The idea seems to be that of a scion or shoot which is mildewed and blasted, and which men fling away as loathsome.

As the raiment of those that are slain ... —The image reminds us of the garments rolled in blood of Isaiah 9:5, gathered after the battle, and “cast forth” to be burnt. In such garments, not in stately robes nor kingly grave-clothes, would the great ruler be found. To lie thus unburied, “a prey to dogs and vultures” (Homer, Iliad, i. 4), was, as with the Homeric heroes, the shame of all shames.

That go down to the stones of the pit. —By some critics these words are joined with the following verse: Those that go down ... with them you shall not be joined in burial, i.e., you shall have no proper sepulchre. As the passage stands, “the stones of the pit” represent the burial-place into which the carcasses of the slain were indiscriminately thrown.