Isaiah 14:4-23 NIV

[4] you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has come to an end! How his fury has ended! [5] The LORD has broken the rod of the wicked, the scepter of the rulers, [6] which in anger struck down peoples with unceasing blows, and in fury subdued nations with relentless aggression. [7] All the lands are at rest and at peace; they break into singing. [8] Even the junipers and the cedars of Lebanon gloat over you and say, “Now that you have been laid low, no one comes to cut us down.” [9] The realm of the dead below is all astir to meet you at your coming; it rouses the spirits of the departed to greet you—all those who were leaders in the world; it makes them rise from their thrones—all those who were kings over the nations. [10] They will all respond, they will say to you, “You also have become weak, as we are; you have become like us.” [11] All your pomp has been brought down to the grave, along with the noise of your harps; maggots are spread out beneath you and worms cover you. [12] How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations! [13] You said in your heart, “I will ascend to the heavens; I will raise my throne above the stars of God; I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly, on the utmost heights of Mount Zaphon. [14] I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.” [15] But you are brought down to the realm of the dead, to the depths of the pit. [16] Those who see you stare at you, they ponder your fate: “Is this the man who shook the earth and made kingdoms tremble, [17] the man who made the world a wilderness, who overthrew its cities and would not let his captives go home?” [18] All the kings of the nations lie in state, each in his own tomb. [19] But you are cast out of your tomb like a rejected branch; you are covered with the slain, with those pierced by the sword, those who descend to the stones of the pit. Like a corpse trampled underfoot, [20] you will not join them in burial, for you have destroyed your land and killed your people. Let the offspring of the wicked never be mentioned again. [21] Prepare a place to slaughter his children for the sins of their ancestors; they are not to rise to inherit the land and cover the earth with their cities. [22] “I will rise up against them,” declares the LORD Almighty. “I will wipe out Babylon’s name and survivors, her offspring and descendants,” declares the LORD. [23] “I will turn her into a place for owls and into swampland; I will sweep her with the broom of destruction,” declares the LORD Almighty.