Isaiah 14:15
But you will come down to the underworld, even to its inmost parts.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
In Context
14I will go higher than the clouds; I will be like the Most High.
Cross References
Isaiah 2:11The high looks of man will be put to shame, and the pride of men will be made low, and only the Lord will be lifted up in that day.
Isaiah 14:3And it will be, in the day when the Lord gives you rest from your sorrow, and from your trouble, and from the hard yoke which they had put on you,
Ezekiel 31:14In order that no trees by the waters may be lifted up in their growth, putting their tops among the clouds; and that no trees which are watered may take their place on high: for they are all given up to death, to the lowest parts of the earth among the children of men, with those who go down to the underworld.
Obadiah 1:3You have been tricked by the pride of your heart, O you whose living-place is in the cracks of the rock, whose house is high up; who has said in his heart, Who will make me come down to earth?
Luke 10:15And you, Capernaum, were you not lifted up to heaven? you will go down to hell.
Revelation 19:20And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who did the signs before him, by which they were turned from the true way who had the mark of the beast, and who gave worship to his image: these two were put living into the sea of ever-burning fire.
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 →