The Fall of the King of Babylon
Isaiah 14:15
In 11 translations
- BSB
- But you will be brought down to Sheol, to the lowest depths of the Pit.
- KJV
- Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
- WEB
- Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the pit.Sheol is the place of the dead.
- ASV
- Yet thou shalt be brought down to Sheol, to the uttermost parts of the pit.
- LSV
- Only—you are brought down to Sheol, || To the sides of the pit.
- YLT
- Only — unto Sheol thou art brought down, Unto the sides of the pit.
- DBY
- none the less art thou brought down to Sheol, to the recesses of the pit.
- DRC
- But yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, into the depth of the pit.
- GNV
- But thou shalt bee brought downe to the graue, to the sides of the pit.
- JPS
- Yet thou shalt be brought down to the nether-world, to the uttermost parts of the pit.
- LXXE
- But now thou shalt go down to hell, even to the foundations of the earth.
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Original-language editions
- WLC
- אַ֧ךְ אֶל־שְׁא֛וֹל תּוּרָ֖ד אֶל־יַרְכְּתֵי־בֽוֹר׃
- LXX-Br
- Νῦν δὲ εἰς ᾅδην καταβήσῃ, καὶ εἰς τὰ θεμέλια τῆς γῆς.
Who and where
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How traditions read it
Read as Satan's fall in later Christian tradition · Satan
Isaiah 14:12-15 is a taunt over the king of Babylon (Isaiah 14:4); the "day star, son of the dawn" (Hebrew hêlēl, "shining one"; "Lucifer" in the King James and Douay-Rheims) is the king. The Catholic Encyclopedia (1908, "Devil") says the passage "is expressly directed against the King of Babylon, but both the early Fathers and later Catholic commentators agree in understanding it as applying with deeper significance to the fall of the rebel angel."
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).
Cross-references most cited first
- Matthew 11:23And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted up to heaven? No, you will be brought down to Hades! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Sodom, it would have remained to this day.
- Acts 12:22–23And they began to shout, “This is the voice of a god, not a man!” Immediately, because Herod did not give glory to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.
- Ezekiel 32:23Her graves are set in the depths of the Pit, and her company is all around her grave. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword— those who once spread terror in the land of the living.
- Revelation 19:20But the beast was captured along with the false prophet, who on its behalf had performed signs deceiving those who had the mark of the beast and worshiped its image. Both the beast and the false prophet were thrown…
- Luke 10:15And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted up to heaven? No, you will be brought down to Hades!
- Isaiah 14:3–11On the day that the LORD gives you rest from your pain and torment, and from the hard labor into which you were forced, you will sing this song of contempt against the king of Babylon: How the oppressor has ceased, and…
- Ezekiel 28:8–9They will bring you down to the Pit, and you will die a violent death in the heart of the seas. Will you still say, ‘I am a god,’ in the presence of those who slay you? You will be only a man, not a god, in the hands…
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