Bible in Basic English
"How great is your fall from heaven, O shining one, son of the morning! How are you cut down to the earth, low among the dead bodies!"
— Isaiah 14:12, Bible in Basic English
“How art thou fallen from heaven, O day-star, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, that didst lay low the nations! ”
The underworld is moved at your coming: the shades of the dead are awake before you, even the strong ones of the earth; all the kings of the world have got up from their seats.
They all make answer and say to you, Have you become feeble like us? have you been made even as we are?
Your pride has gone down into the underworld, and the noise of your instruments of music; the worms are under you, and your body is covered with them.
How great is your fall from heaven, O shining one, son of the morning! How are you cut down to the earth, low among the dead bodies!
For you said in your heart, I will go up to heaven, I will make my seat higher than the stars of God; I will take my place on the mountain of the meeting-place of the gods, in the inmost parts of the north.
I will go higher than the clouds; I will be like the Most High.
But you will come down to the underworld, even to its inmost parts.