Isaiah 14:12-23

New King James Version

The Fall of Lucifer

¹²“How^(A) you are fallen from heaven,
O ^[a]Lucifer, son of the morning!
How you are cut down to the ground,
You who weakened the nations!
¹³For you have said in your heart:
^(B)‘I will ascend into heaven,
^(C)I will exalt my throne above the stars of God;
I will also sit on the ^(D)mount of the congregation
^(E)On the farthest sides of the north;
¹⁴I will ascend above the heights of the clouds,
^(F)I will be like the Most High.’
¹⁵Yet you ^(G)shall be brought down to Sheol,
To the ^[b]lowest depths of the Pit.

¹⁶“Those who see you will gaze at you,
And consider you, saying:
‘Is this the man who made the earth tremble,
Who shook kingdoms,
¹⁷Who made the world as a wilderness
And destroyed its cities,
Who ^[c]did not open the house of his prisoners?’

¹⁸“All the kings of the nations,
All of them, sleep in glory,
Everyone in his own house;
¹⁹But you are cast out of your grave
Like an ^[d]abominable branch,
Like the garment of those who are slain,
^[e]Thrust through with a sword,
Who go down to the stones of the pit,
Like a corpse trodden underfoot.
²⁰You will not be joined with them in burial,
Because you have destroyed your land
And slain your people.
^(H)The brood of evildoers shall never be named.
²¹Prepare slaughter for his children
^(I)Because of the iniquity of their fathers,
Lest they rise up and possess the land,
And fill the face of the world with cities.”

Babylon Destroyed

²²“For I will rise up against them,” says the Lord of hosts,
“And cut off from Babylon ^(J)the name and ^(K)remnant,
^(L)And offspring and posterity,” says the Lord.
²³“I will also make it a possession for the ^(M)porcupine,
And marshes of muddy water;
I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,” says the Lord of hosts.