8. Even the cypress trees rejoice over you, along with the cedars of Lebanon: “Since you were laid low, no woodcutter comes up against us.”
9. Sheol from below is excited about you, to meet you at your coming! He stirs up the dead spirits for you, even the chief ones of the earth. He makes all the kings of the nations rise up from their thrones.
10. They all answer and say to you: “Even you have become as weak as us? Have you become like us?
11. Your pomp is brought down to Sheol with the music of your harps. Maggots are spread out under you, and worms cover you.”
12. How you have fallen from heaven, O brightstar, son of the dawn! How you are cut down to the earth, you who made the nations prostrate!
13. You said in your heart: “I will ascend to heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God. I will sit upon the mount of meeting, in the uttermost parts of the north.
14. I will ascend above the high places of the clouds— I will make myself like Elyon.”
15. Yet you will be brought down to Sheol, to the lowest parts of the Pit.
16. Those who see you will stare at you, reflecting on what has become of you: “Is this the one who shook the earth, who made kingdoms tremble,
17. who made the world a wilderness and destroyed its cities, who never opened the house of his prisoners?”
18. All the kings of the nations, all of them, lie in glory, each in his own house.
19. But you are cast out of your tomb as a discarded branch, garment of the slain, pierced with a sword, dumped into a stony pit, a corpse trodden underfoot.