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16 “Those who see you will stare at you.
    They will wonder about you:
‘Is this the man who[a] made the earth tremble,
    who made kingdoms quake,
17 who made the world like a desert,
    who[b] destroyed its cities,
        who would not open the jails for his prisoners?’
18 All the kings of the nations lie[c] in state,
    each in his own tomb.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 14:16 So 1QIsaa LXX; the Heb. lacks who
  2. Isaiah 14:17 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read and who
  3. Isaiah 14:18 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT reads nations, every one of them lies