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Isaiah 14:9-20

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9“Sheol below is excited about you, to meet you when you come;

It stirs the spirits of the dead for you, all the leaders of the earth;

It raises all the kings of the nations from their thrones.

10“They will all respond and say to you,

‘Even you have become weak as we,

You have become like us.

11‘Your pride and the music of your harps

Have been brought down to Sheol;

Maggots are spread out as your bed beneath you

And worms are your covering.’

12“How you have fallen from heaven,

You star of the morning, son of the dawn!

You have been cut down to the earth,

You who defeated the nations!

13“But you said in your heart,

‘I will ascend to heaven;

I will raise my throne above the stars of God,

And I will sit on the mount of assembly

In the recesses of the north.

14‘I will ascend above the heights of the clouds;

I will make myself like the Most High.’

15“Nevertheless you will be brought down to Sheol,

To the recesses of the pit.

16“Those who see you will stare at you,

They will closely examine you, saying,

‘Is this the man who made the earth tremble,

Who shook kingdoms,

17Who made the world like a wilderness

And overthrew its cities,

Who did not allow his prisoners to go home?’

18“All the kings of the nations lie in glory,

Each in his own tomb.

19“But you have been hurled out of your tomb

Like a rejected branch,

Clothed with those killed who have been pierced with a sword,

Who go down to the stones of the pit

Like a trampled corpse.

20“You will not be united with them in burial,

Because you have ruined your country,

You have killed your people.

May the descendants of evildoers never be mentioned.