Isaiah 14:11
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Your pomp has been brought down to Sheol, along with the music of your harps. Maggots are your bed and worms your blanket.”
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“Your pomp has been brought down to Sheol, along with the music of your harps. Maggots are your bed and worms your blanket.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Thy pomp is brought down to Sheol, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and worms cover thee.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“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.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Isaiah 14:11 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 17:13If I look for Sheol as my home, if I spread out my bed in darkness,
- Job 21:11They send forth their little ones like a flock; their children skip about,
- Job 21:26But together they lie down in the dust, and worms cover them both.
- Job 24:19As drought and heat consume the melting snow, so Sheol steals those who have sinned.
- Isaiah 21:4My heart falters; fear makes me tremble. The twilight of my desire has turned to horror.
- Isaiah 22:2O city of commotion, O town of revelry? Your slain did not die by the sword, nor were they killed in battle.
- Isaiah 66:24“As they go forth, they will see the corpses of the men who have rebelled against Me; for their worm will never die, their fire will never be quenched, and they will be a horror to all mankind.”
- Ezekiel 26:13So I will silence the sound of your songs, and the music of your lyres will no longer be heard.
- Ezekiel 32:19Whom do you surpass in beauty? Go down and be placed with the uncircumcised!
- Daniel 5:1Later, King Belshazzar held a great feast for a thousand of his nobles, and he drank wine with them.
- Daniel 5:25Now this is the inscription that was written: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, PARSIN.
- Amos 6:3You dismiss the day of calamity and bring near a reign of violence.
- Mark 9:43If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than to have two hands and go into hell, into the unquenchable fire.
- Revelation 18:11And the merchants of the earth will weep and mourn over her, because there is no one left to buy their cargo—
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).