8. The evergreens also rejoice over your demise, as do the cedars of Lebanon, singing,‘Since you fell asleep,no woodsman comes up to chop us down!’
9. Sheol below is stirred up about you,ready to meet you when you arrive.It rouses the spirits of the dead for you,all the former leaders of the earth;it makes all the former kings of the nationsrise from their thrones.
10. All of them respond to you, saying:‘You too have become weak like us!You have become just like us!
11. Your splendor has been brought down to Sheol,as well as the sound of your stringed instruments.You lie on a bed of maggots,with a blanket of worms over you.
12. Look how you have fallen from the sky,O shining one, son of the dawn!You have been cut down to the ground,O conqueror of the nations!
13. You said to yourself,“I will climb up to the sky.Above the stars of ElI will set up my throne.I will rule on the mountain of assemblyon the remote slopes of Zaphon.
14. I will climb up to the tops of the clouds;I will make myself like the Most High!”
15. But you were brought down to Sheol,to the remote slopes of the pit.
16. Those who see you stare at you,they look at you carefully, thinking: “Is this the man who shook the earth,the one who made kingdoms tremble?
17. Is this the one who made the world like a desert,who ruined its cities,and refused to free his prisoners so they could return home?”’
18. As for all the kings of the nations,all of them lie down in splendor,each in his own tomb.
19. But you have been thrown out of your gravelike a shoot that is thrown away.You lie among the slain,among those who have been slashed by the sword,among those headed for the stones of the pit,as if you were a mangled corpse.