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11 Your grand show of power has been brought down to the grave.
    The noise of your harps has come down here along with your power.
Maggots are spread out under you.
    Worms cover you.

12 “King of Babylon, you thought you were the bright morning star.
    But now you have fallen from heaven!
You once brought down nations.
    But now you have been thrown down to the earth!
13 You said in your heart,
    ‘I will go up to the heavens.
I’ll raise my throne
    above the stars of God.
I’ll sit as king on the mountain where the gods meet.
    I’ll set up my throne on the highest slopes of Mount Zaphon.

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11 All your pomp has been brought down to the grave,(A)
    along with the noise of your harps;(B)
maggots are spread out beneath you
    and worms(C) cover you.(D)

12 How you have fallen(E) from heaven,
    morning star,(F) son of the dawn!
You have been cast down to the earth,
    you who once laid low the nations!(G)
13 You said in your heart,
    “I will ascend(H) to the heavens;
I will raise my throne(I)
    above the stars of God;
I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly,(J)
    on the utmost heights(K) of Mount Zaphon.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 14:13 Or of the north; Zaphon was the most sacred mountain of the Canaanites.