Isaiah 14:12
10 They will all respond to you, saying, “You too have become weak, as we are; you have become like us!”
11 Your pomp has been brought down to Sheol, along with the music of your harps. Maggots are your bed and worms your blanket.
How you have fallen from heaven, O day star, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, O destroyer of nations.
13 You said in your heart: “I will ascend to the heavens; I will raise my throne above the stars of God. I will sit on the mount of assembly, in the far reaches of the north.
14 I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.”
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- How you have fallen from heaven, O day star, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, O destroyer of nations.
- KJV
- How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
- WEB
- How you have fallen from heaven, shining one, son of the dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low!
- ASV
- How art thou fallen from heaven, O day-star, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, that didst lay low the nations!
- DARBY
- How art thou fallen from heaven, Lucifer, son of the morning! Thou art cut down to the ground, that didst prostrate the nations!
- BLB
- How you have fallen from the heavens, O shining one, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, O weakener of nations!
- ÅB
- Hvor er du ikke falt ned fra himmelen, du strålende stjerne, du morgenrødens sønn! Hvor er du ikke felt til jorden, du som slo ned folkeslag!
- OTB
- Hvordan har du falt fra himmelen, strålende en, morgenens sønn! Du er kastet ned til jorden, du som en gang la nasjonene lave!
- B1930
- Hvor er du ikke falt ned fra himmelen, du strålende stjerne, du morgenrødens sønn! Hvor er du ikke felt til jorden, du som slo ned folkeslag!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Ezekiel 28:13–17
You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every kind of precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and emerald. Your mountings and settings were crafted in gold, prepared on the day of your creation.
Read in contextLuke 10:18
So He told them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven.
Read in contextRevelation 12:7–10
Then a war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back.
Read in contextRevelation 8:10
Then the third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star burning like a torch fell from heaven and landed on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water.
Read in contextRevelation 22:16
“I, Jesus, have sent My angel to give you this testimony for the churches. I am the Root and the Offspring of David, the bright Morning Star.”
Read in context2 Peter 1:19
We also have the word of the prophets as confirmed beyond doubt. And you will do well to pay attention to it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.
Read in contextIsaiah 34:4
All the stars of heaven will be dissolved. The skies will be rolled up like a scroll, and all their stars will fall like withered leaves from the vine, like foliage from the fig tree.
Read in context2 Peter 2:4
For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them deep into hell, placing them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment;
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