For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
Isaiah 14:14 - English Standard Version 2016 I will ascend above the heights of the 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. |
For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
Though his height mount up to the heavens, and his head reach to the clouds,
The oracle concerning the wilderness of the sea. As whirlwinds in the Negeb sweep on, it comes from the wilderness, from a terrible land.
Come down and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans! For you shall no more be called tender and delicate.
Now therefore hear this, you lover of pleasures, who sit securely, who say in your heart, “I am, and there is no one besides me; I shall not sit as a widow or know the loss of children”:
Thus says the Lord: “Behold, I will stir up the spirit of a destroyer against Babylon, against the inhabitants of Leb-kamai,
“Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord God: “Because your heart is proud, and you have said, ‘I am a god, I sit in the seat of the gods, in the heart of the seas,’ yet you are but a man, and no god, though you make your heart like the heart of a god—
“Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because it towered high and set its top among the clouds, and its heart was proud of its height,
“And the king shall do as he wills. He shall exalt himself and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak astonishing things against the God of gods. He shall prosper till the indignation is accomplished; for what is decreed shall be done.
He shall pay no attention to the gods of his fathers, or to the one beloved by women. He shall not pay attention to any other god, for he shall magnify himself above all.
who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.