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"How you have fallen from heaven, You star of the morning, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the earth, You who defeated the nations!

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!

"But you said in your heart, 'I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throne above the stars of God, And I will sit on the mount of assembly In the recesses of the north.

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:

'I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.'

I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.

"Nevertheless you will be brought down to Sheol, To the recesses of the pit.

Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.

"Those who see you will stare at you, They will closely examine you, saying, 'Is this the man who made the earth tremble, Who shook kingdoms,

They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;