Isaiah 14:19 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Bible Comments

Cast out — Or, cast from thy grave or burying — place. Which very probably happened to Belshazzar, when his people had neither opportunity nor heart to bestow an honourable interment upon him, and the conquerors would not suffer them to do it. Like — Like a rotten twig of a tree, which he that prunes the trees, casts away. Raiment — Which, being mangled, and besmeared with mire, and blood, was cast away with contempt. Go down — Who being slain, are cast into some pit. He saith, to the stones of the pit, because when dead bodies are cast in thither, men use to throw an heap of stones upon them. Trodden — Neglected, like such a carcase. And this might literally happen to Belshazzar's dead body.

Isaiah 14:19

19 But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.