Isaiah 14:13
For you said in your heart, I will go up to heaven, I will make my seat higher than the stars of God; I will take my place on the mountain of the meeting-place of the gods, in the inmost parts of the north.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
In Context
14I will go higher than the clouds; I will be like the Most High.
Cross References
Job 20:6Though he is lifted up to the heavens, and his head goes up to the clouds;
Isaiah 2:2And it will come about in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord will be placed on the top of the mountains, and be lifted up over the hills; and all nations will come to it.
Ezekiel 27:3And say to Tyre, O you who are seated at the doorway of the sea, trading for the peoples with the great sea-lands, these are the words of the Lord: You, O Tyre, have said, I am a ship completely beautiful.
Ezekiel 28:9Will you say, in the face of those who are taking your life, I am God? but you are man and not God in the hands of those who are wounding you.
Ezekiel 28:14I gave you your place with the winged one; I put you on the mountain of God; you went up and down among the stones of fire.
Daniel 4:30The king made answer and said, Is this not great Babylon, which I have made for the living-place of kings, by the strength of my power and for the glory of my honour?
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 14:5-24
The Doom of the King of Babylon. ( b. c. 739.) 4 That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased! 5 The Lord hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers. 6 He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth. 7 The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing. 8 Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of… Read the whole commentary →