The evergreens also rejoice over your demise, ¹  as do the cedars of Lebanon, singing, ²  ‘Since you fell asleep, ³  no woodsman comes up to chop us down!’ ⁴ 

biblegateway Isa 14:8

"Even the cypress trees rejoice over you, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, ‘Since you were laid low, no tree cutter comes up against us.’

Even the cypresses and the cedars of Lebanon rejoice over you: "Since you have been laid low, no woodcutter has come against us."

Even the cypresses rejoice over you. The cedars of Lebanon say, "Since you have fallen, no lumberjack has come to attack us."

biblegateway Isa 14:8

Even the pine trees and the cedars of Lebanon exult over you and say, "Now that you have been laid low, no woodsman comes to cut us down."

The cypresses rejoice at you, the cedars of Lebanon, saying, 'Since you were laid low, no woodcutter comes up against us.'

bibleoremus Isa 14:8

The cypresses exult over you, the cedars of Lebanon, saying, "Since you were laid low, no one comes to cut us down."

The very pines and the cedars of Lebanon exult: “Since you have been laid low,” they say, “no woodman comes to cut us down.”

biblegateway Isa 14:8

Indeed the cypress trees rejoice over you, And the cedars of Lebanon, Saying , ‘Since you were cut down, No woodsman has come up against us.’

Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, [and] the cedars of Lebanon, [saying], Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us.

biblegateway Isa 14:8

The evergreens also rejoice over your demise, ¹  as do the cedars of Lebanon, singing, ²  ‘Since you fell asleep, ³  no woodsman comes up to chop us down!’ ⁴ 

¹ tn Heb “concerning you.”

² tn The word “singing” is supplied in the translation for stylistic reasons. Note that the personified trees speak in the second half of the verse.

³ tn Heb “lay down” (in death); cf. NAB “laid to rest.”

⁴ tn Heb “the [wood]cutter does not come up against us.”