Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
Parallel translations
- WEB Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the depths of the pit.
- BSB But you will be brought down to Sheol, to the lowest depths of the Pit.
- NKJV Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, To the lowest depths of the Pit.
- NASB “Nevertheless you will be brought down to Sheol, To the recesses of the pit.
- NLT Instead, you will be brought down to the place of the dead, down to its lowest depths.
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Quick answer
Instead of ascending to heaven, the king is brought down to the depths of the pit. His reach for the highest place ends in the lowest.
Overview
God answers the tyrant's five boastful 'I wills' with a decisive reversal: not heaven but Sheol, not the heights but the pit. The proud are abased and the lofty laid low, a recurring theme throughout Isaiah. This judgment foreshadows the final humbling of all who exalt themselves against God.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Matt 11:23And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down to hell: for if the mighty works, which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day.
- Ezek 32:23Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit, and her company is round about her grave: all of them slain, fallen by the sword, which caused terror in the land of the living.
- Acts 12:22–23And the people gave a shout, saying, It is the voice of a god, and not of a man.
- Luke 10:15And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted to heaven, shalt be thrust down to hell.
- Rev 19:20And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
- Ezek 28:8–9They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas.
- Isa 14:3–11And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve,
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