14. I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High:
15. none the less art thou brought down to Sheol, to the recesses of the pit.
16. They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee; they shall consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that shook kingdoms;
17. that made the world as a wilderness, and overthrew the cities thereof; that dismissed not his prisoners homewards?
18. --All the kings of the nations, all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house;
19. but thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, covered with the slain--those thrust through with the sword, that go down to the stones of the pit: like a carcase trodden under foot.
20. Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial; for thou hast destroyed thy land, hast slain thy people. Of the seed of evildoers no mention shall be made for ever.
21. Prepare ye slaughter for his children, because of the iniquity of their fathers; that they may not rise up and possess the earth, nor fill the face of the world with cities.
22. For I will rise up against them, saith Jehovah of hosts, and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, and scion and descendant, saith Jehovah.