14. I will ascend above the heights of the clouds! I will make myself like the Most High!”
15. Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the pit.
16. Those who see you will stare at you. They will ponder you, saying, “Is this the man who made the earth to tremble, who shook kingdoms;
17. who made the world like a wilderness, and overthrew its cities; who didn’t release his prisoners to their home?”
18. All the kings of the nations, sleep in glory, everyone in his own house.
19. But you are cast away from your tomb like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, who are thrust through with the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit; like a dead body trodden under foot.
20. You will not join them in burial, because you have destroyed your land. You have killed your people. The offspring of evildoers will not be named forever.
21. Prepare for slaughter of his children because of the iniquity of their fathers, that they not rise up and possess the earth, and fill the surface of the world with cities.
22. “I will rise up against them,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, and son and son’s son,” says Yahweh.
23. “I will also make it a possession for the porcupine, and pools of water. I will sweep it with the broom of destruction,” says Yahweh of Armies.
24. Yahweh of Armies has sworn, saying, “Surely, as I have thought, so shall it happen; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:
25. that I will break the Assyrian in my land, and tread him under foot on my mountains. Then his yoke will leave them, and his burden leave their shoulders.