14. I will go up above the tops of the clouds.I will be like God Most High.”
15. But you were brought down to the grave.You were brought down to the deep places where the dead are.
16. Those who see you stare at you.They think about what has happened to you.They say, “Is this the same man who caused great fear on earth?Is he the one who shook the kingdoms?
17. Is this the man who turned the land into a desert?Is he the one who destroyed its cities?Is he the one who captured people in warand would not let them go home?”
18. Every king of the earth has been buried with honor.Every king has his own grave.
19. But you are thrown out of your grave,like an unwanted branch is cut from a tree and thrown away.You are covered by bodiesthat died in battle.You have been thrown into a rocky pit.And other soldiers walk on you.
20. You will not be buried like other people.This is because you ruined your own country.And you killed your own people.So your children will neverbe mentioned again.
21. Prepare to kill his children.Kill them because their father is guilty.They will never again take control of the earth.They will never again fill the world with their cities.
22. The Lord of heaven’s armies says this:“I will fight against those people.I will destroy Babylon and its people.I will destroy its people and their descendants,” says the Lord.
23. “I will make Babylon fit only for owls.It will become a swamp.I will sweep Babylon as with a broom of destruction,”says the Lord of heaven’s armies.
24. The Lord of heaven’s armies has made this promise:“These things will happen exactly as I planned them.These things will happen exactly as I set them up.