Isaiah 14:11
Thy pomp is brought down to Sheol, [and] the noise of thy viols. The worm is spread under thee, and worms cover thee.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
10They shall all answer and say to thee, Have thou also become weak as we? Have thou become like us?
Cross References
Job 17:13If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,
Job 21:26They lie down alike in the dust, and the worm covers them.
Isaiah 21:4My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling to me.
Isaiah 66:24And they shall go forth, and look upon the dead bodies of the men who have transgressed against me. For their worm shall not die, nor shall their fire be quenched, and they shall be an abhorring to all flesh.
Ezekiel 32:19Whom do thou pass in beauty? Go down, and be thou laid with the uncircumcised.
Daniel 5:25And this is the writing that was inscribed: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 14:5-24
The Doom of the King of Babylon. ( b. c. 739.) 4 That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased! 5 The Lord hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers. 6 He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth. 7 The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing. 8 Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of… Read the whole commentary →