Isaias

Hebrew Bible

Hebrew Bible, Isaias, Ottley, Cambridge, 1904

5 The LORD hath broken the staff of the the rod of rulers,

6 Which smote peoples in wrath with a continual stroke, ruled over nations in anger with a pursuit that none restrained.

7 The whole earth is at rest, is quiet; they break forth into Singing.

8 Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, the cedars of Lebanon, (saying,) Since thou hast lain down, the feller cometh not up against us.

9 Hell (from) beneath is disquieted for thee, to meet thee at thy coming; it stirreth up the Shades for thee, all the chief ones of the earth; ’ raiseth from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

10 All they shall answer and say ’unto thee, Thou also art made weak as we ἦ thou art made like unto us!

11 Thy pride is brought down to hell, the noise of thy viols; the maggot is spread under thee, and the worm is thy covering.

[*](9. ‘chief ones’: lit. ‘he-goats’ (cf. Jet. l. 8, Zech. x. 10. Or. ‘Art thou also...?’)
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12 How art thou fallen from heaven, Lucifer, son of the dawn; how art thou hewn down to the ground, which didst lay low the nations!

13 And thou, thou sajdst in thy heart, I will ascend the heavens; I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; and I will sit upon the mount of assembly, in the recesses of the north: