Isaiah 14:9-32

New American Standard Bible

⁹^(A)Sheol below is excited about you, to meet you when you come;
It stirs the ^[a]spirits of the dead for you, all the ^[b]leaders of the earth;
It raises all the kings of the nations from their thrones.
¹⁰^(B)They will all respond and say to you,
‘Even you have become weak as we,
You have become like us.
¹¹Your ^(C)pride and the music of your harps
Have been brought down to Sheol;
Maggots are spread out as your bed beneath you
And worms are your covering.’
¹²How you have ^(D)fallen from heaven,
You ^[c]^(E)star of the morning, son of the dawn!
You have been cut down to the earth,
You who defeated the nations!
¹³But you said in your heart,
‘I will ^(F)ascend to heaven;
I will ^(G)raise my throne above the stars of God,
And I will sit on the mount of assembly
In the recesses of the north.
¹⁴I will ascend above the heights of the clouds;
^(H)I will make myself like the Most High.’
¹⁵Nevertheless you ^(I)will be brought down to Sheol,
To the recesses of the pit.
¹⁶Those who see you will stare at you,
They will ^[d]closely examine you, saying,
‘Is this the man who made the earth tremble,
Who shook kingdoms,
¹⁷Who made the world like a ^(J)wilderness
And overthrew its cities,
Who ^(K)did not ^[e]allow his prisoners to go home?’
¹⁸All the kings of the nations lie in glory,
Each in his own ^[f]tomb.
¹⁹But you have been ^(L)hurled out of your tomb
Like ^[g]a rejected branch,
^[h]Clothed with those killed who have been pierced with a sword,
Who go down to the stones of the ^(M)pit
Like a ^(N)trampled corpse.
²⁰You will not be united with them in burial,
Because you have ruined your country,
You have killed your people.
May the ^(O)descendants of evildoers never be mentioned.
²¹Prepare a place of slaughter for his sons
Because of the ^(P)wrongdoing of their fathers.
They must not arise and take possession of the earth,
And fill the surface of the world with cities.”

²²“I will rise up against them,” declares the Lord of armies, “and eliminate from Babylon ^(Q)name and survivors, ^(R)offspring and descendants,” declares the Lord. ²³“I will also make it the property of the ^(S)hedgehog and swamps of water, and I will sweep it away with the broom of ^(T)destruction,” declares the Lord of armies.

Judgment on Assyria

²⁴The Lord of armies has sworn, saying, “Certainly, ^(U)just as I have intended, so it has happened, and just as I have planned, so it will stand, ²⁵to ^(V)break Assyria in My land, and I will trample him on My mountains. Then his ^(W)yoke will be removed from them, and his burden removed from their shoulders. ²⁶This is the ^(X)plan ^[i]devised against the entire earth; and this is the ^(Y)hand that is stretched out against all the nations. ²⁷For ^(Z)the Lord of armies has planned, and who can frustrate it? And as for His stretched-out hand, who can turn it back?”

Judgment on Philistia

²⁸In the ^(AA)year that King Ahaz died, this ^(AB)pronouncement came:

²⁹“Do not rejoice, ^(AC)Philistia, all of you,
Because the rod that ^(AD)struck you is broken;
For from the serpent’s root a ^(AE)viper will come out,
And its fruit will be a ^(AF)winged serpent.
³⁰^[j]Those who are most ^(AG)helpless will eat,
And the poor will lie down in security;
I will kill your root with ^(AH)famine,
And it will kill your survivors.
³¹Wail, you ^(AI)gate; cry, you city;
^[k]Melt away, ^(AJ)Philistia, all of you!
For smoke comes from the ^(AK)north,
And ^(AL)there is no straggler in his ranks.
³²What answer will one give the ^(AM)messengers of the nation?
That ^(AN)the Lord has founded Zion,
And ^(AO)the poor of His people will take refuge in it.”