Isaiah 14:15
Howbeit, to Hades, shalt thou be brought down,—To the Recesses of the Pit!
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
In Context
14I will mount on the hills of the clouds, I will match the Most High!
Cross References
Isaiah 2:11The lofty looks of mean men, shall be humbled, And, the haughtiness of great men, shall be bowed down,—And Yahweh alone shall be exalted in that day.
Isaiah 14:3And it shall come to pass, in the day when Yahweh shall give thee rest from thy toil, and from thy disquiet,—and from the hard service which had been laid upon thee,
Ezekiel 31:14To the end that none of the trees of the waters— May exalt themselves in their stature or stretch their top among the clouds, Nor their mighty ones take their stand in their height- any that drink of the waters,— Because they all, are delivered to death Unto the earth below. In the midst of the sons of Adam. Amongst them who descend into the pit.
Obadiah 1:3The insolence of thy heart, hath deceived thee, O thou that inhabitest the retreats of the crag, the height of his habitation,—that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?
Luke 10:15And, thou, Capernaum,—Unto heaven, shalt thou be uplifted? …Unto hades, thou shalt be brought down!
Revelation 19:20And the wild-beast, was taken, and, with him, the false prophet who wrought the signs before him, whereby he deceived them who received the mark of the wild-beast and them who were doing homage unto his image,—alive, were they two cast into the lake of fire that burneth with brimstone.
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 →