Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, [and] the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.
KJV
Hebrew original
Louis Segond 1910
Ta magnificence est descendue dans le séjour des morts, Avec le son de tes luths; Sous toi est une couche de vers, Et les vers sont ta couverture.
KJV
Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, [and] the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.
Saint Isidore of Seville
On the Order of Creatures
g of Babylon through the Prophet: "Beneath you, the moth is spread out, and worms are your covering" Isaiah 14:11 Someone also said: "Just as the depths of the sea are to the earth, so the depths of the earth are to the underworld." Hence, it seems to be written about that which…
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 99 (Migne)
in fetorem esse conversum. Quia ut dicitur Eccli. XIX, 3: Putredo et vermes haereditabunt illum. Et Isa. XIV, 11: Concidit cadaver tuum: subter te sternetur tinea et operimentum tuum erunt vermes. Et XXXIV, 3: De cadaveribus eorum ascendet fetor: tabescent montes a sanguine eor…
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Patrologia Latina Vol. 112 (Migne)
entatione. Tinea, tormentum inferni, ut in Isaia: «Subter te sternetur tinea [Note: [Col. 1067] 9 Isa. XIV, 11.] ,» id est, inferni te volvet poena. Tintinnabula sunt soni praedicationis, ut in Exodo: «* Et tintinnabula de auro purissimo [Note: [Col. 1067] 10 Exod. XXVIII…
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