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!
For thou hast said in thine heart,
I will ascend into heaven,
I will exalt my throne above the stars of God.
Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell,
to the sides of the pit.
Isaiah 14 is a proverb against the king of Babylon. The Lord has broken the staff of the wicked. The earth is at rest. Then the proverb turns: How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning. The Hebrew is helel, the shining one, son of the dawn. Lucifer is the Latin word the KJV used.
He said in his 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:
- I will ascend above the heights of the clouds;
- I will be like the most High.
Yet he is brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
They that see him ask, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble? The passage names a man, the king. The language is higher than one dead king. Lucifer became the name for the fall behind the throne. Jesus is the bright and morning star. This verse is not that. The son of the morning here is the one who fell.
- The proverb is taken up against the king of Babylon.
- Lucifer is the KJV word for the shining one, son of the dawn.
- The five I wills are the heart of the passage. He would be like the most High.
Fallen from heaven.
I will be like the most High.
Brought down to the pit.
- Isaiah 14:4 calls it a proverb against the king of Babylon.
- Lucifer, son of the morning, is the KJV of helel ben shachar.
- He said, I will ascend, I will exalt my throne, I will be like the most High.
- He is brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
- They that see him say, Is this the man?
- Jesus is the bright and morning star. This verse is not that title.
- The Proverb – Against the king of Babylon.
- The Name – Lucifer, son of the morning.
- The Heart – I will be like the most High.
- The Fall – From heaven to the pit.
- The Man – Is this the man?
- The Limit – Not the morning star of Revelation 22.
- Isaiah 14:4 – “That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased!”
- Isaiah 14:12 – “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!”
- Isaiah 14:13-14 – “For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God… I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.”
- Isaiah 14:15 – “Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.”
- Isaiah 14:16 – “They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble?”
- Isaiah 14:9 – “Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming.”
- Luke 10:18 – “And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.”
- Revelation 12:9 – “And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan.”
- Ezekiel 28:14-15 – “Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth… Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.”
- Revelation 22:16 – “I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.”
How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!
I will ascend into heaven. I will be like the most High.
Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
The proverb is against the king of Babylon. The language is a fall from heaven. Lucifer is the KJV word. Jesus is the bright and morning star. This verse is not that.
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