^{4 Ref} That thou hast taken up this simile Concerning the king of Babylon, and said, How hath the exactor ceased,

^{5 Ref} Ceased hath the golden one. Broken hath Jehovah the staff of the wicked, The sceptre of rulers.

^{6 Ref} He who is smiting peoples in wrath, A smiting without intermission, He who is ruling in anger nations, Pursuing without restraint!

^{7 Ref} At rest -- quiet hath been all the earth, They have broken forth `into' singing.

^{8 Ref} Even firs have rejoiced over thee, Cedars of Lebanon -- `saying': Since thou hast lain down, The hewer cometh not up against us.

^{9 Ref} Sheol beneath hath been troubled at thee, To meet thy coming in, It is waking up for thee Rephaim, All chiefs ones of earth, It hath raised up from their thrones All kings of nations.

^{10 Ref} All of them answer and say unto thee, Even thou hast become weak like us! Unto us thou hast become like!

^{11 Ref} 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.

^{12 Ref} How hast thou fallen from the heavens, O shining one, son of the dawn! Thou hast been cut down to earth, O weakener of nations.

^{13 Ref} And thou saidst in thy heart: the heavens I go up, Above stars of God I raise my throne, And I sit in the mount of meeting in the sides of the north.

^{14 Ref} I go up above the heights of a thick cloud, I am like to the Most High.

^{15 Ref} Only -- unto Sheol thou art brought down, Unto the sides of the pit.