Isaiah 14:11

Into the nether world is brought down thy pride, the clatter of thy psalteries: beneath thee is spread the worm, and thy cover is the moth.

Leeser Tanakh

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

10They all will commence and say unto thee, “Thou—thou also art become weak like us; similar unto us art thou become!”

12How art thou fallen from heaven, O morning-star, son of the dawn! how art thou hewn down to the ground, crusher of nations!

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Cross References

Job 17:13When I hope for the nether world as my house; in the darkness have I spread my couch;

Job 21:26[And yet] together they must lie down in the dust, and the worms will cover them?

Isaiah 21:4My heart wandereth astray, dread affrighteth me: the evening of my pleasure hath he turned unto me into terror.

Isaiah 66:24And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcasses of the men that have transgressed against me; for their worm shall not die, nor shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorrence unto all flesh.

Ezekiel 32:19Whom dost thou surpass in loveliness? go down [then], and be thou laid with the [other] uncircumcised.

Daniel 5:25And this is the writing that was noted down, M'ne, M'ne, T'kel, 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 →

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