7. All the earth rests quietly,then it breaks into song.
8. Even the cypresses rejoice over you,the cedars of Lebanon:"Since you were laid low,no logger comes up against us!"
9. The underworld beneath becomes restless to greet your arrival.It awakens the ghosts,all the leaders of earth;it makes the kings of the nations rise from their thrones.
10. All of them speak and say to you:"Even you’ve become weak like we are!You are the same as us!"
11. Your majesty has been brought down to the underworld,along with the sound of your harps.Under you is a bed of maggots,and worms are your blanket.
12. How you’ve fallen from heaven,morning star, son of dawn!You are cut down to earth,helpless on your back!
13. You said to yourself, I will climb up to heaven;above God’s stars, I will raise my throne.I’ll sit on the mount of assembly,on the heights of Zaphon.
14. I’ll go up to the cloud tops;I’ll be like the Most High!
15. But down to the underworld you are brought,to the depths of the pit.
16. Those who see you will stare at you;they will examine you closely:"Is this the man who rattled the earth,who shook kingdoms,
17. who made the world a wastelandand tore down its cities,and wouldn’t let his prisoners go home?"
18. All the kings of the nations lie down honored,all of them, each in his own tomb.