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Isaiah 14:9-20

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Mercy on Jacob

⁹“Hellfrom 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 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.’

The Fall of Lucifer

¹²“Howyou are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, You who weakened the nations!

¹³For 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;

¹⁴I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High.’

¹⁵Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, To the lowest depths of the Pit.

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,

¹⁷Who made the world as a wilderness And destroyed its cities, Who did not open the house of his prisoners?’

¹⁸“All the kings of the nations, All of them, sleep in glory, Everyone in his own house;

¹⁹But you are cast out of your grave Like an abominable branch, Like the garment of those who are slain, Thrust through with a sword, Who go down to the stones of the pit, Like a corpse trodden underfoot.

²⁰You will not be joined with them in burial, Because you have destroyed your land And slain your people. The brood of evildoers shall never be named.

Isaiah 14:9-20 (NKJV)