Isaiah 14:15

thou shalt be brought down to Sheol] Such is the end of the "vaulting ambition that o'erleaps itself." The Babylonian Hades (Aralu) seems to have been conceived as situated underthe mountain of the gods. The pitmeans Sheol, and the sides of the pitare its inmost recesses, the most dismal part of a land of darkness. These apparently are reserved for those who have not obtained honourable burial on earth (see below on Isaiah 14:18).