Isaiah 14:3-23

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹² “How you are fallen from heaven,
    O Day Star, son of Dawn!
How you are cut down to the ground,
    you who laid the nations low!
¹³ You said in your heart,
    ‘I will ascend to heaven;
above the stars of God
    I will set my throne on high;
I will sit on the mount of assembly
    in the far north;
¹⁴ I will ascend above the heights of the clouds,
    I will make myself like the Most High.’
¹⁵ But you are brought down to Sheol,
    to the depths of the Pit.
¹⁶ Those who see you will stare at you,
    and ponder over you:
‘Is this the man who made the earth tremble,
    who shook kingdoms,
¹⁷ who made the world like a desert
    and overthrew its cities,
    who did not let his prisoners go home?’
¹⁸ All the kings of the nations lie in glory,
    each in his own tomb;
¹⁹ but you are cast out, away from your sepulchre,
    like a loathed untimely birth,^[b]
clothed with the slain, those pierced by the sword,
    who go down to the stones of the Pit,
    like a dead body trodden under foot.
²⁰ You will not be joined with them in burial,
    because you have destroyed your land,
    you have slain your people.

“May the descendants of evildoers
    nevermore be named!
²¹ Prepare slaughter for his sons
    because of the guilt of their fathers,
lest they rise and possess the earth,
    and fill the face of the world with cities.”