^{14 Ref} I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.

^{15 Ref} Yet thou shalt be brought down to Sheol, to the uttermost parts of the pit.

^{16 Ref} They that see thee shall gaze at thee, they shall consider thee, `saying', Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;

^{17 Ref} that made the world as a wilderness, and overthrew the cities thereof; that let not loose his prisoners to their home?

^{18 Ref} All the kings of the nations, all of them, sleep in glory, every one in his own house.

^{19 Ref} But thou art cast forth away from thy sepulchre like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, that are thrust through with the sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a dead body trodden under foot.