12. What a comedown this, O Babylon!Daystar! Son of Dawn!Flat on your face in the underworld mud,you, famous for flattening nations!
13-14. You said to yourself,“I’ll climb to heaven.I’ll set my throneover the stars of God.I’ll run the assembly of angelsthat meets on sacred Mount Zaphon.I’ll climb to the top of the clouds.I’ll take over as King of the Universe!”
15-17. But you didn’t make it, did you?Instead of climbing up, you came down—Down with the underground dead,down to the abyss of the Pit.People will stare and muse:“Can this be the oneWho terrorized earth and its kingdoms,turned earth to a moonscape,Wasted its cities,shut up his prisoners to a living death?”