Isaiah 14:18
What does Isaiah 14:18 mean?
A plain-English look at Isaiah 14:18 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000All the kings of the nations, all of them, sleep in glory, every one in his own house.
KJV
King James Version · 1611All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901All the kings of the nations, all of them, sleep in glory, every one in his own house.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949All the kings of the earth are at rest in glory, every man in his house,
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862All kings of nations--all of them, Have lain down in honour, each in his house,
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752All the kings of the nations have all of them slept in glory, every one in his own house.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890— All the kings of the nations, all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house;
Context
v.17that made the world as a wilderness, and overthrew the cities thereof; that let not loose his prisoners to their home?
v.18This passage
v.19But thou art cast forth away from thy sepulchre like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, that are thrust through with the sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a dead body trodden under foot.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 30:23
For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, And to the house appointed for all living.
- 2 Chronicles 24:16
And they buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good in Israel, and toward God and his house.
- Ezekiel 32:18
Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her, and the daughters of the famous nations, unto the nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit.
- Isaiah 22:16
What doest thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out here a sepulchre? hewing him out a sepulchre on high, graving a habitation for himself in the rock!
- Ecclesiastes 6:3
If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul be not filled with good, and moreover he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he:
- 2 Chronicles 24:25
And when they were departed from him (for they left him very sick), his own servants conspired against him for the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the priest, and slew him on his bed, and he died; and they buried him in the city of David, but they buried him not in the sepulchres of the kings.
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