Isaiah 14:3-23 — Legacy Standard Bible

³And it will be in the day when Yahweh gives you ^arest from your pain and turmoil and harsh slavery in which you have been enslaved, ⁴that you will ^atake up this ¹taunt against the king of Babylon, and say, “How ^bthe taskmaster has ceased,And how ²fury has ceased!

⁵“Yahweh has broken the staff of the wicked,The scepter of rulers⁶^aWhich used to strike the peoples in fury with unceasing strokes,Which had dominion over the nations in anger with unrestrained persecution.⁷“The whole earth is at rest and is quiet;They ^abreak forth into shouts of joy.⁸“Even the ^acypress trees are glad over you, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying,‘Since you were laid low, no tree cutter comes up against us.’⁹“^aSheol from beneath trembles excitedly over you to meet you when you come;It wakens for you the ¹spirits of the dead, all the ²leaders of the earth;It raises all the kings of the nations from their thrones.¹⁰“^aThey will all answer and say to you,‘Even you have been made weak as we,You have become like us.¹¹‘Your ^apride and the music of your harpsHave been brought down to Sheol;Maggots are spread out as your bed beneath youAnd worms are your covering.’¹²“How you have ^afallen from heaven,O ¹^,^bstar of the morning, son of the dawn!You have been cut down to the earth,You who have weakened the nations!¹³“But you said in your heart,‘I will ^aascend to heaven;I will ^braise my throne above the stars of God,And I will sit on the mount of assemblyIn the recesses of the north.¹⁴‘I will ascend above the heights of the clouds;^aI will make myself like the Most High.’¹⁵“Nevertheless you ^awill be brought down to Sheol,To the recesses of the pit.¹⁶“Those who see you will gaze at you,They will ¹carefully consider you, saying,‘Is this the man who made the earth tremble,Who caused kingdoms to quake,¹⁷Who made the world like a ^awildernessAnd pulled down its cities,Who ^bdid not ¹allow his prisoners to go home?’¹⁸“All the kings of the nations lie in glory,Each in his own ¹place.¹⁹“But you have been ^acast out of your graveLike an abhorred branch,¹Clothed with those killed who are pierced with a sword,Who go down to the stones of the ^bpitLike a ^ctrampled corpse.²⁰“You will not be united with them in burial,Because you have ruined your country,You have killed your people.May the ^aseed of evildoers not be called upon forever.²¹“Prepare for his sons a place of slaughterBecause of the ^ainiquity of their fathers.They must not arise and take possession of the earthAnd fill the face of the world with cities.”

²²“I will rise up against them,” declares Yahweh of hosts, “and will cut off from Babylon ^aname and remnant, ^boffspring and posterity,” declares Yahweh. ²³“I will also make it a possession for the ^ahedgehog and swamps of water, and I will sweep it with the broom of ¹^,^bdestruction,” declares Yahweh of hosts.