But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.
But ye shall die like men - like any ordinary man; Hebrew, 'aadaam (H120) (Psalms 9:20). The gods or great men had virtually forgotten that they are liable to die like other men (Psalms 49:11). God tells them, your god-like station wherewith God has invested you will not exempt you from the penalty of your abuse of it.
And fall like one of the princes - i:e., be cut off by God's judgment by a violent death. [So naapal (H5307), "perish" by God's judgment, Exodus 19:21; Jeremiah 39:18.] You shall no more escape than other wicked princes who fell by the judgment of God (1 Kings 22:17-34). So even a pagan satirist, Juvenal, remarks-`Ad generum Cereris sine coede et saugnine, panei Descendnut reges, and sicca morte tyranni'-Few kings descend to Ceres' son-in-law (Pluto, the pagan god of the world of death) without slaughter and blood and tyrants by a natural death.