12. Shining morning star, how you have fallen from the heavens! You destroyer of nations,you have been cut down to the ground.
13. You said to yourself:“I will ascend to the heavens; I will set up my throneabove the stars of God. I will sit on the mount of the gods’ assembly,in the remotest parts of the North.
14. I will ascend above the highest clouds;I will make myself like the Most High.”
15. But you will be brought down to Sheolinto the deepest regions of the Pit.
16. Those who see you will stare at you;they will look closely at you:“Is this the man who caused the earth to tremble,who shook the kingdoms,
17. who turned the world into a wilderness, who destroyed its citiesand would not release the prisoners to return home? ”
18. All the kings of the nationslie in splendor, each in his own tomb.
19. But you are thrown out without a grave,like a worthless branch,covered by those slain with the swordand dumped into a rocky pit like a trampled corpse.
20. You will not join them in burial,because you destroyed your landand slaughtered your own people.The offspring of evildoerswill never be remembered.
21. Prepare a place of slaughter for his sons,because of the iniquity of their fathers.They will never rise up to possess a landor fill the surface of the earth with cities.
22. “I will rise up against them” — this is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts — “and I will cut off from Babylon her reputation, remnant, offspring, and posterity” — this is the Lord’s declaration.
23. “I will make her a swampland and a region for screech owls, and I will sweep her away with a broom of destruction.”This is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts.