Common English Bible

Isaiah 14:9-14 Common English Bible (CEB)

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!