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17 who made the world like a desert,
    who[a] destroyed its cities,
        who would not open the jails for his prisoners?’
18 All the kings of the nations lie[b] in state,
    each in his own tomb.
19 But you are cast away from your grave,
    like a repulsive branch,
your clothing is the slain,
    those pierced by the sword;
        those who go down to the Pit.[c]
Like a dead body trampled underfoot,

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 14:17 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read and who
  2. Isaiah 14:18 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT reads nations, every one of them lies
  3. Isaiah 14:19 So 1QIsaa; i.e. to the realm of punishment in the afterlife; LXX reads to Hades; 1QIsaa corrector MT read to the stones of the Pit