Isaiah 14:13
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!
New Heart English Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
14I will ascend above the heights of the clouds! I will make myself like the Most High!"
Cross References
Job 20:6Though his height mount up to the heavens,and his head reach to the clouds,
Isaiah 2:2It shall happen in the latter days, that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established on the top of the mountains,and shall be raised above the hills;and all nations shall flow to it.
Ezekiel 27:3and tell Tyre, 'You who dwell at the entry of the sea, who are the merchant of the peoples to many islands, thus says the Lord God: "You, Tyre, have said, 'I am perfect in beauty.'
Ezekiel 28:9Will you yet say before him who kills you, 'I am God?' But you are man, and not God, in the hand of him who wounds you.
Ezekiel 28:14You were the anointed cherub who covers: and I set you, so that you were on the holy mountain of God; you have walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.
Daniel 4:30The king spoke and said, "Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?"
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 →