13. You thought,“I’ll go up to heaven and set up my throne above God’s stars.I’ll sit on the mountain far away in the northwhere the gods assemble.
14. I’ll go above the top of the clouds.I’ll be like the Most High.”
15. But you’ve been brought down to Sheol,to the deepest part of the pit.
16. Those who see you stare at you; they look at you closely and say,“Is this the man who made the earth tremble,who shook the kingdoms,
17. who made the world like a desert and tore down its cities,who didn’t let his prisoners go home?”
18. All the kings of the nations, all of them,have been buried with honor, each in his own tomb.
19. But you are thrown out of your tomb like a rejected branch.You are covered with those who were killed in battle.You go down to the stones of the pit like a trampled corpse.
20. You won’t be joined by the kings in the tomb,because you have destroyed your land and killed your people.The descendants of the wicked will never be mentioned again.
21. Prepare a place to slaughter their sonsbecause of their ancestors’ guilt.They won’t be able to rise, possess the earth,and rebuild cities all over it.
22. “I’ll rise up against them,” declares the Lord of Armies.“I’ll cut off the name of the survivors from Babylon,its offspring and descendants,” declares the Lord.
23. “It will become the possession of herons.It will become pools of water.I’ll sweep it with the broom of destruction,” declares the Lord of Armies.