Isaiah 14:18
Good News Translation
All the kings of the earth lie in their magnificent tombs,

New Revised Standard Version
All the kings of the nations lie in glory, each in his own tomb;

Contemporary English Version
When kings die, they are buried in glorious tombs.

New American Bible
All the kings of the nations lie in glory, each in his own tomb;

Douay-Rheims Bible
All the kings of the nations have all of them slept in glory, every one in his own house.

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All the kings of the nations have all of them slept in glory, every one in his own house.

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Isaiah 22:16 What dost thou here, or as if thou wert somebody here? for thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, thou hast hewed out a monument carefully in a high place, a dwelling for thyself in a rock.

2 Chronicles 24:16,25 And they buried him in the city of David among the kings, because he had done good to Israel, and to his house. . . .

Ecclesiastes 6:3 If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, and attain to a great age, and his soul make no use of the goods of his substance, and he be without burial: of this man I pronounce, that the untimely born is better than he.

Ezekiel 32:18 Son of man, sing a mournful song for the multitude of Egypt: and cast her down, both her, and the daughters of the mighty nations to the lowest part of the earth, with them that go down into the pit.

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Job 30:23 I know that thou wilt deliver me to death, where a house is appointed for every one that liveth.

Ecclesiastes 12:5 And they shall fear high things, and they shall be afraid in the way, the almond tree shall flourish, the locust shall be made fat, and the caper tree shall be destroyed: because man shall go into the house of his eternity, and the mourners shall go round about in the street.

Context
Downfall of the King of Babylon
17That made the world a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof, that opened not the prison to his prisoners? 18All the kings of the nations have all of them slept in glory, every one in his own house.19But thou art cast out of thy grave, as an unprofitable branch defiled, and wrapped up among them that were slain by the sword, and art gone down to the bottom of the pit, as a rotten carcass.…
Cross References
Isaiah 14:17
That made the world a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof, that opened not the prison to his prisoners?

Isaiah 14:19
But thou art cast out of thy grave, as an unprofitable branch defiled, and wrapped up among them that were slain by the sword, and art gone down to the bottom of the pit, as a rotten carcass.

Ezekiel 32:27
And they shall not sleep with the brave, and with them that fell uncircumcised, that went down to hell with their weapons, and laid their swords under their heads, and their iniquities were in their bones, because they were the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.

Isaiah 14:17
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