Isaiah 14:11
Your pomp has been brought down to Sheol with the sound of your string instruments. 1 Maggots are spread under you, and worms cover you.' 1
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10They all will speak and say to you, 1 'You have become as weak as us. You have become like us. 1
Cross References
Job 17:13If the only home I hope for is Sheol; 1 and if I have spread my couch in the darkness; 1
Job 21:26They lie down alike in the dust; 1 the worms cover them both. 1
Isaiah 21:4My heart pounds; I shake with fear. 1 Twilight was my desire, but it brought me terror. 1
Isaiah 66:24They will go out and see the dead bodies of the men who have rebelled against me, 1 for the worms that eat them will not die, and the fire that consumes them will not be quenched; 1 and it will be an abhorrence to all flesh.”
Ezekiel 32:19'Are you really more beautiful than anyone else? Go down and lie down with the uncircumcised.' 1
Daniel 5:25This is the writing that was done: 'Mene, Mene, Tekel, and Pharsin.'
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 →