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This phrase, 'How art thou' occurs three times in the KJV Bible, and means in context:

Isaiah 14.12 - How are you fallen from Heaven & how are you cut down to the ground!

Ezekiel 26.17 - How are you destroyed!

Obadiah 1.5 - How are you cut off!

So the 'art thou' of the KJV Bible is simply subsituted for 'are you'.

These three are not questions but rather statements of amazement at the extent of the fall, the destruction, and of the cutting off, respectively.

Good question, and I hope you may get enlightenment at this statement of God.

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