Isaiah 14:11 “Your pomp has been brought down to Sheol, along with the music of your…”

Isaiah 14:11

Your pomp has been brought down to Sheol, along with the music of your harps. Maggots are your bed and worms your blanket.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.

World English Bible

Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, with the sound of your stringed instruments. Maggots are spread out under you, and worms cover you.

American Standard Version

Thy pomp is brought down to Sheol, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and worms cover thee.

Geneva Bible 1599

Thy pompe is brought downe to ye graue, and the sounde of thy violes: the worme is spred vnder thee, and the wormes couer thee.

Darby Translation

— Thy pomp is brought down to Sheol, the noise of thy lyres: the maggot is spread under thee, and worms cover thee.

Young's Literal Translation

Brought down to Sheol hath been thine excellency, The noise of thy psaltery, Under thee spread out hath been the worm, Yea, covering thee is the worm.

Bible in Basic English

Your pride has gone down into the underworld, and the noise of your instruments of music; the worms are under you, and your body is covered with them.

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Cross references

“pomp”

Daniel 5:25–30 Isaiah 22:2 Job 21:11–15 Ezekiel 26:13 Daniel 5:1–4 Amos 6:3–7

Daniel 5:25–30 · BSB

Now this is the inscription that was written: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, PARSIN.

Isaiah 22:2 · BSB

O city of commotion, O town of revelry? Your slain did not die by the sword, nor were they killed in battle.

Job 21:11–15 · BSB

They send forth their little ones like a flock; their children skip about,

Ezekiel 26:13 · BSB

So I will silence the sound of your songs, and the music of your lyres will no longer be heard.

Daniel 5:1–4 · BSB

Later, King Belshazzar held a great feast for a thousand of his nobles, and he drank wine with them.

Amos 6:3–7 · BSB

You dismiss the day of calamity and bring near a reign of violence.

“the worm”

Isaiah 66:24 Mark 9:43–48 Job 17:13 Job 17:14 Job 24:19 Job 24:20

Isaiah 66:24 · BSB

“As they go forth, they will see the corpses of the men who have rebelled against Me; for their worm will never die, their fire will never be quenched, and they will be a horror to all mankind.”

Mark 9:43–48 · BSB

If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than to have two hands and go into hell, into the unquenchable fire.

Job 17:13 · BSB

If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,

Job 17:14 · BSB

and say to corruption, ‘You are my father,’ and to the worm, ‘My mother,’ or ‘My sister,’

Job 24:19 · BSB

As drought and heat consume the melting snow, so Sheol steals those who have sinned.

Job 24:20 · BSB

The womb forgets them; the worm feeds on them; they are remembered no more. So injustice is broken like a tree.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

10They will all respond to you, saying, “You too have become weak, as we are; you have become like us!”

12How you have fallen from heaven, O day star, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, O destroyer of nations.

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