The reception of the tyrant among the dead in Sheol is described with vivid imagination. There is excitement and commotion, as there would be in any great center of population in the Orient, waiting for the arrival of a great potentate; only, this time they are expecting one whom they hated in life. Kings rise from their thrones and taunt him with questions, sneeringly: "Art thou become weak as we?" (v. 10) Where is thy music? Look at the worms all over you! (v. 10) The king of Babylon is next compared to Lucifer, the son of the morning, who fell because of pride. "For thou hast said in thy heart I will ascend into heaven ... I will be like the Most High. Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell." (v. 15)