‘In fact, God knows that when you eat it your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.’
Isaiah 14:14 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised I will ascend above the highest clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.’ Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High. American Standard Version (1901) I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High. Common English Bible I’ll go up to the cloud tops; I’ll be like the Most High! Catholic Public Domain Version I will ascend above the tops of the clouds. I will be like the Most High.' Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version I will ascend above the height of the clouds. I will be like the most High. |
‘In fact, God knows that when you eat it your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.’
Though his arrogance reaches heaven, and his head touches the clouds,
A pronouncement concerning the desert by the sea: Like storms that pass over the Negev, it comes from the desert, from the land of terror.
‘Go down and sit in the dust, Virgin Daughter Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, Daughter Chaldea! For you will no longer be called pampered and spoilt.
‘So now hear this, lover of luxury, who sits securely, who says to herself, “I am, and there is no one else. I will never be a widow or know the loss of children.”
This is what the Lord says: I am about to rouse the spirit of a destroyer against Babylon and against the population of Leb-qamai. ,
‘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.
‘ “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,
‘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.
He will not show regard for the gods of his ancestors, the god desired by women, or for any other god, because he will magnify himself above all.
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.