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11 Your[a] pomp has been brought down to Sheol,[b]
    along with the noise of your harps.
Maggots are spread out beneath you,
    and worms are your covering.”[c]

The Fall of the Day Star

12 “How you have fallen from heaven,
    Day Star,[d] son of the Dawn![e]
How you have been thrown down to earth,
    you who laid low the nation![f]
13 You said in your heart,
    ‘I’ll ascend to heaven,
        above the stars of God.
I’ll erect my throne;
    I’ll sit[g] on the Mount of Assembly
        in the far reaches of the north;[h]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 14:11 1QIsaa reads The; MT LXX lack Your
  2. Isaiah 14:11 I.e. the realm of the dead
  3. Isaiah 14:11 So LXX; MT reads and a worm covers you
  4. Isaiah 14:12 So MT; Vg reads Lucifer
  5. Isaiah 14:12 I.e. Lucifer
  6. Isaiah 14:12 So 1QIsaa; 4QIsae MT read the nations; LXX reads all the nations
  7. Isaiah 14:13 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT reads and I will sit
  8. Isaiah 14:13 Lit. Zaphon; or the Sacred Mountain