Isaiah 14:11

Your arrogance has been dragged down to Hell. Your body has fallen dead. The moths will be strewn beneath you, and the worms will be your covering.

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In The King James Version

Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.

In Context

10Everyone will respond and will say to you: “Now you are wounded, just as we were; you have become like us.

12How is it that you have fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, who used to rise like the sun? How is it that you have fallen to the earth, you who wounded the peoples?

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Cross References

Job 17:13If I should wait, the underworld is my house, and in darkness I have spread out my bed.

Job 21:26And yet they will sleep together in the dust, and worms will cover them.

Isaiah 21:4My heart withered. The darkness stupefied me. Babylon, my beloved, has become a wonder to me.

Isaiah 66:24And they will go out, and they will view the carcasses of the men who have transgressed against me. Their worm will not die, and their fire will not be extinguished. And they will be a sight to all flesh even unto revulsion.

Ezekiel 32:19Whom do you exceed in beauty? Descend and sleep with the uncircumcised!

Daniel 5:25But this is the writing that has been decreed: MANE, THECEL, PHARES.

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 →

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