9. Sheol (Hades, the place of the dead) below is stirred up to meet you at your coming [O tyrant Babylonian rulers]; it stirs up the shades of the dead to greet you–even all the chief ones of the earth; it raises from their thrones [in astonishment at your humbled condition] all the kings of the nations.
10. All of them will [tauntingly] say to you, Have you also become weak as we are? Have you become like us?
11. Your pomp and magnificence are brought down to Sheol (the underworld), along with the sound of your harps; the maggots [which prey upon dead bodies] are spread out under you and worms cover you [O Babylonian rulers].
12. How have you fallen from heaven, O light-bringer and daystar, son of the morning! How you have been cut down to the ground, you who weakened and laid low the nations [O blasphemous, satanic king of Babylon!]
13. And you said in your heart, I will ascend to heaven; I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will sit upon the mount of assembly in the uttermost north.
14. I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.
15. Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol (Hades), to the innermost recesses of the pit (the region of the dead).
16. Those who see you will gaze at you and consider you, saying, Is this the man who made the earth tremble, who shook kingdoms?–
17. Who made the world like a wilderness and overthrew its cities, who would not permit his prisoners to return home?
18. All the kings of the nations, all of them lie sleeping in glorious array, each one in his own sepulcher.
19. But you are cast away from your tomb like a loathed growth or premature birth or an abominable branch [of the family] and like the raiment of the slain; and you are clothed with the slain, those thrust through with the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit [into which carcasses are thrown], like a dead body trodden underfoot.