Isaiah 14:11

Thy pomp is brought down to hell, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and worms cover thee.

Revised Version 1895

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

10All they shall answer and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?

12How art thou fallen from heaven, O day star, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst lay low the nations!

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Cross References

Job 17:13If I look for Sheol as mine house; if I have spread my couch in the darkness;

Job 21:26They lie down alike in the dust, and the worm covereth them.

Isaiah 21:4My heart panteth, horror hath affrighted me: the twilight that I desired hath been turned into trembling unto me.

Isaiah 66:24And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.

Ezekiel 32:19Whom dost thou pass in beauty? go down, and be thou laid with the uncircumcised.

Daniel 5:25And 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 →

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