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11 Your great power has now come down low, into the deep hole of death. People no longer praise you with their harps. Now you will lie on a bed of maggots.[a] A blanket of worms will cover you.

12 Look at you! You have fallen from heaven!
    You shine like the bright morning star!
You have won against many nations,
    but now you have come down very low!
13 You said to yourself, “I will go up into heaven.
    I will put my throne above the stars of God.
I will rule as king on the mountain in the far north,
    where the gods of the nations meet together.

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Footnotes

  1. 14:11 A maggot is like a small worm. Often maggots live in dead bodies which they eat.