The Fall of the King of Babylon
Isaiah 14:14
In 11 translations
- BSB
- I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.”
- KJV
- I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
- WEB
- I will ascend above the heights of the clouds! I will make myself like the Most High!”
- ASV
- I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.
- LSV
- I go up above the heights of a thick cloud, I am like to the Most High.
- YLT
- I go up above the heights of a thick cloud, I am like to the Most High.
- DBY
- I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High:
- DRC
- I will ascend above the height of the clouds, I will be like the most High.
- GNV
- I wil ascend aboue ye height of the cloudes, and I will be like the most high.
- JPS
- I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the Most High.'
- LXXE
- I will go up above the clouds; I will be like the Most High.
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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- אֶעֱלֶ֖ה עַל־בָּ֣מֳתֵי עָ֑ב אֶדַּמֶּ֖ה לְעֶלְיֽוֹן׃
- LXX-Br
- ἀναβήσομαι ἐπάνω τῶν νεφῶν, ἔσομαι ὅμοιος τῷ ὑψίστῳ.
Who and where
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How traditions read it
Read as Satan's fall in later Christian tradition · Satan
Isaiah 14:12-15 is a taunt over the king of Babylon (Isaiah 14:4); the "day star, son of the dawn" (Hebrew hêlēl, "shining one"; "Lucifer" in the King James and Douay-Rheims) is the king. The Catholic Encyclopedia (1908, "Devil") says the passage "is expressly directed against the King of Babylon, but both the early Fathers and later Catholic commentators agree in understanding it as applying with deeper significance to the fall of the rebel angel."
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).
Cross-references most cited first
- Isaiah 47:8So now hear this, O lover of luxury who sits securely, who says to herself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me. I will never be a widow or know the loss of children.’
- Genesis 3:5“For God knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
- 2 Thessalonians 2:4He 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.
- Isaiah 37:23–24Whom have you taunted and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel! Through your servants you have taunted the Lord, and you have said: “With my…
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