Isaiah 14:11
Good News Translation
You used to be honored with the music of harps, but now here you are in the world of the dead. You lie on a bed of maggots and are covered with a blanket of worms.'"

New Revised Standard Version
Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, and the sound of your harps; maggots are the bed beneath you, and worms are your covering.

Contemporary English Version
Your pride and your music have ended here in the world of the dead. Worms are your blanket, maggots are your bed."

New American Bible
Down to Sheol your pomp is brought, the sound of your harps. Maggots are the couch beneath you, worms your blanket.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thy pride is brought down to hell, thy carcass is fallen down: under thee shall the moth be strewed, and worms shall be thy covering.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thy pride is brought down to hell, thy carcass is fallen down: under thee shall the moth be strewed, and worms shall be thy covering.

pomp

Isaiah 21:4,5 My heart failed, darkness amazed me: Babylon my beloved is become a wonder to me. . . .

Isaiah 22:2 Full of clamour, a populous city, a joyous city: thy slain are not slain by the sword, nor dead in battle.

Job 21:11-15 Their little ones go out like a flock, and their children dance and play. . . .

Ezekiel 26:13 And I will make the multitude of thy songs to cease, and the sound of thy harps shall be heard no more.

Ezekiel 32:19,20 Whom dost thou excel in beauty? go down and sleep with the uncircumcised. . . .

Daniel 5:1-4,25-30 Baltasar, the king, made a great feast for a thousand of his nobles: and every one drank according to his age. . . .

Amos 6:3-7 You that are separated unto the evil day: and that approach to the throne of iniquity; . . .

Revelation 18:11-19 And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her: for no man shall buy their merchandise any more. . . .

the worm

Isaiah 66:24 And they shall go out, and see the carcasses of the men that have transgressed against me: their worm shall not die, and their fire shall not be quenched: and they shall be a loathsome sight to all flesh.

Job 17:13,14 If I wait hell is my house, and I have made my bed in darkness. . . .

Job 24:19,20 Let him pass from the snow waters to excessive heat, and his sin even to hell. . . .

Mark 9:43-48 And if thy hand scandalize thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life, maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into unquenchable fire: . . .

Context
Downfall of the King of Babylon
10All shall answer, and say to thee: Thou also art wounded as well as we, thou art become like unto us. 11Thy pride is brought down to hell, thy carcass is fallen down: under thee shall the moth be strewed, and worms shall be thy covering.12How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, who didst rise in the morning? how art thou fallen to the earth, that didst wound the nations?…
Cross References
Job 21:26
And yet they shall sleep together in the dust, and worms shall cover them.

Isaiah 5:14
Therefore hath hell enlarged her soul, and opened her mouth without any bounds, and their strong ones, and their people, and their high and glorious ones shall go down into it.

Isaiah 51:8
For the worm shall eat them up as a garment: and the moth shall consume them as wool: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my justice from generation to generation.

Isaiah 66:24
And they shall go out, and see the carcasses of the men that have transgressed against me: their worm shall not die, and their fire shall not be quenched: and they shall be a loathsome sight to all flesh.

Isaiah 14:10
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