Isaiah 14:13

11 Your pomp has been brought down to Sheol, along with the music of your harps. Maggots are your bed and worms your blanket.

12 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.

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.”

15 But you will be brought down to Sheol, to the lowest depths of the Pit.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
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.
KJV
For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
WEB
You said in your heart, “I will ascend into heaven! I will exalt my throne above the stars of God! I will sit on the mountain of assembly, in the far north!
ASV
And thou saidst in thy heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; and I will sit upon the mount of congregation, in the uttermost parts of the north;
DARBY
And thou that didst say in thy heart, I will ascend into the heavens, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God, and I will sit upon the mount of assembly, in the recesses of the north;
BLB
For you have said in your heart, “I will ascend to the heavens; above the stars of God I will raise my throne. And I will sit on the mountain of assembly, in the far reaches of the north.
ÅB
Det var du som sa i ditt hjerte: Til himmelen vil jeg stige opp, høyt over Guds stjerner vil jeg reise min trone, og jeg vil ta sete på gudenes tingfjell i det ytterste nord,
OTB
Du sa i ditt hjerte: "Jeg vil stige opp til himlene; jeg vil heve min trone over Guds stjerner; jeg vil sitte tronende på forsamlingens fjell, på de ytterste høyder i nord.
B1930
Det var du som sa i ditt hjerte: Til himmelen vil jeg stige op, høit over Guds stjerner vil jeg reise min trone, og jeg vil ta sete på gudenes tingfjell i det ytterste nord,

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Daniel 8:10–12

    It grew as high as the host of heaven, and it cast down some of the host and some of the stars to the earth, and trampled them.

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  • Ezekiel 28:2

    “Son of man, tell the ruler of Tyre that this is what the Lord GOD says: Your heart is proud, and you have said, ‘I am a god; I sit in the seat of gods in the heart of the sea.’ Yet you are a man and not a god, though you have regarded your heart as that of a god.

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  • Ezekiel 28:12–16

    “Son of man, take up a lament for the king of Tyre and tell him that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You were the seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.

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  • 2 Thessalonians 2:4

    He will oppose and exalt himself above every so-called god or object of worship. So he will seat himself in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.

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  • Ezekiel 29:3

    Speak to him and tell him that this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I am against you, O Pharaoh king of Egypt, O great monster who lies among his rivers, who says, ‘The Nile is mine; I made it myself.’

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  • Daniel 5:22–23

    But you his son, O Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, even though you knew all this.

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  • Zephaniah 2:15

    This carefree city that dwells securely, that thinks to herself: “I am it, and there is none besides me,” what a ruin she has become, a resting place for beasts. Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.

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  • Ezekiel 27:3

    Tell Tyre, who dwells at the gateway to the sea, merchant of the peoples on many coasts, that this is what the Lord GOD says: You have said, O Tyre, ‘I am perfect in beauty.’

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