Isaiah 14:15
15 But you were brought down ▼▼ The prefixed verb form is taken as a preterite. Note the use of perfects in v.
12 to describe the king’s downfall.
to Sheol,
to the remote slopes of the pit. ▼▼ The Hebrew term בּוּר (
bor, “cistern”) is sometimes used metaphorically to refer to the place of the dead or the entrance to the underworld.