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15 But you were brought down[a] to Sheol,
to the remote slopes of the Pit.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 14:15 tn The prefixed verb form is taken as a preterite. Note the use of perfects in v. 12 to describe the king’s downfall.
  2. Isaiah 14:15 tn The Hebrew term בּוּר (bor, “cistern”) is sometimes used metaphorically to refer to the place of the dead or the entrance to the underworld.

15 But you are brought down(A) to the realm of the dead,(B)
    to the depths(C) of the pit.(D)

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