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Denied a royal burial. TAUNT SONG | Onlookers contrast the ruler’s former terror with his disgrace and exclusion from honorable burial. The abandoned cloak and branch illustrate the comparison.
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Isaiah 14:16-20

Denied a royal burial

The Oppressor Has Ceased · Isaiah 14

Story guide: TAUNT SONG | Onlookers contrast the ruler’s former terror with his disgrace and exclusion from honorable burial. The abandoned cloak and branch illustrate the comparison.

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16Those who see you will stare at you; they will look closely at you: ‘Is this the man who made the earth tremble, who shook kingdoms,’

17who made the world like a wilderness and tore down its cities, who did not open the house for his prisoners?

18All the kings of the nations, all of them, lie in glory, each in his own house.

19But you are cast out from your grave like a despised branch, clothed with the slain, those pierced by the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit, like a trampled corpse.

20You will not be joined with them in burial, because you have destroyed your land; you have slain your people. The offspring of evildoers will never be named.

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