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Isaiah 14:13

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

You said to yourself, ‘I will ascend to the heavens; I will set up my throne above the stars of God. I will sit on the mount of the gods’ assembly, in the remotest parts of the North.  ,

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‘Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre, “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.


He opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god  or object of worship,  so that he sits  in God’s temple, proclaiming that he himself is God.


Speak to him and say, “This is what the Lord God says: Look, I am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great monster  , lying in the middle of his Nile, who says, ‘My Nile is my own; I made it for myself.’


And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? No, you will go down to Hades.   For if the miracles that were done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until today.


This is the jubilant   city that lives in security, that says to herself: I exist, and there is no one else. What a desolation she has become, a place for wild animals to lie down! Everyone who passes by her scoffs  and shakes his fist.


Say to Tyre, who is situated at the entrance of the sea, merchant of the peoples  to many coasts and islands, “This is what the Lord God says: Tyre, you declared, ‘I am perfect in beauty.’


In  the last days the mountain of the  Lord’s house  will be established at the top of the mountains and will be raised above the hills. All nations will stream to it,


Will you still say, ‘I am a god,’ in the presence of those who slay   you? Yet you will be only a man, not a god, in the hands of those who kill you.


And you, Capernaum,   will you be exalted to heaven?   No, you will go down to Hades.


Though his arrogance reaches heaven, and his head touches the clouds,


As to the terror you cause, your arrogant heart has deceived you. You who live in the clefts of the rock, you who occupy the mountain summit, though you elevate your nest like the eagles, even from there I will bring you down. This is the  Lord’s declaration.


‘ “Therefore, this is what the Lord God says: Since it  towered high in stature and set its top among the clouds, and it  grew proud  on account of its height,


In visions of God  he took me to the land of Israel and set me down on a very high mountain.  On its southern slope was a structure resembling a city.


But when his heart was exalted and his spirit became arrogant,  he was deposed from his royal throne and his glory was taken from him.


‘Then the king will do whatever he wants.  He will exalt and magnify himself above every god,  and he will say outrageous things against the God of gods.  He will be successful until the time of wrath is completed,  because what has been decreed will be accomplished.


Your arrogant heart has deceived you, you who live in clefts of the rock  ,, in your home on the heights, who say to yourself, ‘Who can bring me down to the ground? ’





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