| DB1 | | The king of Babylonia in the world of the dead. Is.14.4-21 | KNSB Contents | notes| 14 | katapi New Standard Bible | Passage |
| 4 | you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon: "How the oppressor has ceased, the insolent fury ceased! | The king of Babylonia in the world of the dead. Is.14.4-21 |
| 5 | Yahweh has broken the staff of the wicked, the scepter of rulers, | |
| 6 | that smote the peoples in wrath with unceasing blows, that ruled the nations in anger with unrelenting persecution. | |
| 7 | The whole earth is at rest and quiet; they break forth into singing. | |
| 8 | The cypresses rejoice at you, the cedars of Lebanon, saying, 'Since you were laid low, no hewer comes up against us.' | |
| 9 | Sheol beneath is stirred up to meet you when you come, it rouses the shades to greet you, all who were leaders of the earth; it raises from their thrones all who were kings of the nations. | |
| 10 | All of them will speak and say to you: 'You too have become as weak as we! You have become like us! | |
| 11 | Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, the sound of your harps; maggots are the bed beneath you, and worms are your covering. | |
| 12 | "How you are fallen from heaven, O Day Star, son of Dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, you who laid the nations low! | |
| 13 | You said in your heart, 'I will ascend to heaven; above the stars of God I will set my throne on high; I will sit on the mount of assembly in the far north; | |
| 14 | I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will make myself like the Most High.' | |
| 15 | But you are brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the Pit. | |
| 16 | Those who see you will stare at you, and ponder over you: 'Is this the man who made the earth tremble, who shook kingdoms, | |
| 17 | who made the world like a desert and overthrew its cities, who did not let his prisoners go home? | |
| 18 | All the kings of the nations lie in glory, each in his own tomb; | |
| 19 | but you are cast out, away from your sepulchre, like a loathed untimely birth, clothed with the slain, those pierced by the sword, who go down to the stones of the Pit, like a dead body trodden under foot. | |
| 20 | You will not be joined with them in burial, because you have destroyed your land, you have slain your people. "May the descendants of evildoers nevermore be named! | |
| 21 | Prepare slaughter for his sons because of the guilt of their fathers, lest they rise and possess the earth, and fill the face of the world with cities." | |