of Lebanon, saying, "Since you are humbled, no lumberjack
has come up against us."
014:009 Sheol from beneath has moved for you to meet you at your coming.
It stirs up the dead for you, even all the rulers of the earth.
It has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
014:010 They all will answer and ask you, "Have you also become as weak
as we are? Have you become like us?"
014:011 Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, with the sound of your
stringed instruments. Maggots are spread out under you,
and worms cover you.
014:012 How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn!
How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low!
014:013 You said in your heart, "I will ascend into heaven!
I will exalt my throne above the stars of God! I will sit
on the mountain of assembly, in the far north!
014:014 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds! I will make
myself like the Most High!"
014:015 Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the pit.
014:016 Those who see you will stare at you. They will ponder you,
saying, "Is this the man who made the earth to tremble,
who shook kingdoms;
014:017 who made the world like a wilderness, and overthrew its cities;
who didn't release his prisoners to their home?"
014:018 All the kings of the nations, sleep in glory, everyone in
his own house.
014:019 But you are cast away from your tomb like an abominable branch,
clothed with the slain, who are thrust through with the sword,
who go down to the stones of the pit; like a dead body
trodden under foot.
014:020 You will not join them in burial, because you have destroyed
your land. You have killed your people. The seed of evil-doers
will not be named forever.
014:021 Prepare for slaughter of his children because of the iniquity
of their fathers, that they not rise up and possess the earth,
and fill the surface of the world with cities.
014:022 "I will rise up against them," says Yahweh of Armies,
"and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, and son and
son's son," says Yahweh.
014:023 "I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, and pools
of water. I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,"
says Yahweh of Armies.
014:024 Yahweh of Armies has sworn, saying, "Surely, as I have thought,
so shall it happen; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:
014:025 that I will break the Assyrian in my land, and tread him
under foot on my mountains. Then his yoke will leave them,
and his burden leave their shoulders.
014:026 This is the plan that is determined for the whole earth.
This is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations.
014:027 For Yahweh of Armies has planned, and who can stop it?
His hand is stretched out, and who can turn it back?"
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