Isaiah 14:11
Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, with the sound of your stringed instruments. Maggots are spread out under you, and worms cover you.
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In Context
10They all will answer and ask you, “Have you also become as weak as we are? Have you become like us?”
Cross References
Job 17:13If I look for Sheol as my house, if I have spread my couch in the darkness,
Job 21:26They lie down alike in the dust. The worm covers them.
Isaiah 21:4My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for me.
Isaiah 66:24“They will go out, and look at the dead bodies of the men who have transgressed against me; for their worm will not die, nor will their fire be quenched, and they will be loathsome to all mankind.”
Ezekiel 32:19Whom do you pass in beauty? Go down, and be laid with the uncircumcised.
Daniel 5:25“This is the writing that was inscribed: ‘MENE, MENE, TEKEL, 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 →