Isaiah 14:11

Your pomp has been brought down to Sheol, along with the music of your harps. Maggots are your bed and worms your blanket.

Majority Standard Bible

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 will all respond to you, saying, “You too have become weak, as we are; you have become like us!”

12How you have fallen from heaven, O day star, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, O destroyer of nations.

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Cross References

Job 17:13If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,

Job 21:26But together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover them both.

Isaiah 21:4My heart falters; fear makes me tremble. The twilight I desired has turned to horror.

Isaiah 66:24“As they go forth, they will see the corpses of the men who have rebelled against Me; for their worm will never die, their fire will never be quenched, and they will be a horror to all mankind.”

Ezekiel 32:19Whom do you surpass in beauty? Go down and be placed with the uncircumcised!

Daniel 5:25Now this is the inscription that was written: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, PARSIN.

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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