^{9 Ref} The underworld is moved at your coming: the shades of the dead are awake before you, even the strong ones of the earth; all the kings of the world have got up from their seats.

^{10 Ref} They all make answer and say to you, Have you become feeble like us? have you been made even as we are?

^{11 Ref} 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.

^{12 Ref} How great is your fall from heaven, O shining one, son of the morning! How are you cut down to the earth, low among the dead bodies!

^{13 Ref} For you said in your heart, I will go up to heaven, I will make my seat higher than the stars of God; I will take my place on the mountain of the meeting-place of the gods, in the inmost parts of the north.

^{14 Ref} I will go higher than the clouds; I will be like the Most High.

^{15 Ref} But you will come down to the underworld, even to its inmost parts.

^{16 Ref} Those who see you will be looking on you with care, they will be in deep thought, saying, Is this the troubler of the earth, the shaker of kingdoms?

^{17 Ref} Who made the world a waste, overturning its towns; who did not let his prisoners loose from the prison-house.

^{18 Ref} All the kings of the earth are at rest in glory, every man in his house,

^{19 Ref} But you, like a birth before its time, are stretched out with no resting-place in the earth; clothed with the bodies of the dead who have been put to the sword, who go down to the lowest parts of the underworld; a dead body, crushed under foot.

^{20 Ref} As for your fathers, you will not be united with them in their resting-place, because you have been the cause of destruction to your land, and of death to your people; the seed of the evil-doer will have no place in the memory of man.