Yesaya 14:11

14:11 Your splendor ¹  has been brought down to Sheol,

as well as the sound of your stringed instruments. ² 

You lie on a bed of maggots,

with a blanket of worms over you. ³ 

Yesaya 51:8

51:8 For a moth will eat away at them like clothes;

a clothes moth will devour them like wool.

But the vindication I provide ⁴  will be permanent;

the deliverance I give will last.”

Yesaya 66:24

66:24 “They will go out and observe the corpses of those who rebelled against me, for the maggots that eat them will not die, ⁵  and the fire that consumes them will not die out. ⁶  All people will find the sight abhorrent.” ⁷ 

[14:11]  ¹ tn Or “pride” (NCV, CEV); KJV, NIV, NRSV “pomp.”

[14:11]  ² tn Or “harps” (NAB, NIV, NRSV).

[14:11]  ³ tn Heb “under you maggots are spread out, and worms are your cover.”

[51:8]  ⁴ tn Heb “my vindication”; many English versions “my righteousness”; NRSV, TEV “my deliverance”; CEV “my victory.”

[66:24]  ⁵ tn Heb “for their worm will not die.”

[66:24]  ⁶ tn Heb “and their fire will not be extinguished.”

[66:24]  ⁷ tn Heb “and they will be an abhorrence to all flesh.”

[66:24]  sn This verse depicts a huge mass burial site where the seemingly endless pile of maggot-infested corpses are being burned.