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Isaiah 14:13 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: King James Version
" 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: "
Isaiah 14:13
Verse in Context
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11 Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover
12 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!
13 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:
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
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Isaiah 14:1
"For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob."
Isaiah 14:2
"And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the LORD for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors."
Isaiah 14:3
"And it shall come to pass in the day that the LORD shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve,"
Isaiah 14:4
"That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!"
Isaiah 14:5
"The LORD hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers."
Isaiah 14:6
"He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth."
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