Isa 14:9-11 | NETfull | STEP | Sheol below is stirred up about you, ready to meet you when you arrive. It rouses the spirits of the dead for you, all the former leaders of the earth; it makes all the former kings of the nations rise from their thrones.

Isaiah 14:9-11

9 Sheol ^{▼▼ Sheol is the proper name of the subterranean world which was regarded as the land of the dead.} below is stirred up about you,
ready to meet you when you arrive.
It rouses ^{▼▼ Heb “arousing.” The form is probably a Polel infinitive absolute, rather than a third masculine singular perfect, for Sheol is grammatically feminine (note “stirred up”). See GKC 466 #145.t.} the spirits of the dead for you,
all the former leaders of the earth; ^{▼▼ Heb “all the rams of the earth.” The animal epithet is used metaphorically here for leaders. See HALOT 903 s.v. *עַתּוּד.}
it makes all the former kings of the nations
rise from their thrones. ^{▼▼ Heb “lifting from their thrones all the kings of the nations.” הֵקִים (heqim, a Hiphil perfect third masculine singular) should be emended to an infinitive absolute (הָקֵים, haqem). See the note on “rouses” earlier in the verse.}
10 All of them respond to you, saying:
‘You too have become weak like us!
You have become just like us!
11 Your splendor ^{▼▼ Or “pride” (NCV, CEV); KJV, NIV, NRSV “pomp.”} has been brought down to Sheol,
as well as the sound of your stringed instruments. ^{▼▼ Or “harps” (NAB, NIV, NRSV).}
You lie on a bed of maggots,
with a blanket of worms over you. ^{▼▼ Heb “under you maggots are spread out, and worms are your cover.”}