Isaiah 14:14

New Life Version

I will go much higher than the clouds. I will make myself like the Most High.'

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I will ascend above the highest clouds;I will make myself like the Most High.”

Hebrew Names Version
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like Ha`Elyon.

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

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

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

New Century Version
I will go up above the tops of the clouds. I will be like God Most High."

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

World English Bible
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.

Geneva Bible (1587)
I wil ascend aboue ye height of the cloudes, and I will be like the most high.

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

Berean Standard Bible
I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High."

Contemporary English Version
I'll be above the clouds, just like God Most High."

Complete Jewish Bible
I will rise past the tops of the clouds, I will make myself like the Most High.'

Darby Translation
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High:

Easy-to-Read Version
I will go up to the altar above the tops of the clouds. I will be like God Most High."

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

Good News Translation
You said you would climb to the tops of the clouds and be like the Almighty.

Lexham English Bible
I will ascend to the high places of the clouds, I will make myself like the Most High.'

Literal Translation
I will rise over the heights of the clouds; I will be compared to the Most High.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I wyll clymme vp aboue the cloudes, & wilbe like the highest of all.

American Standard Version
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.

Bible in Basic English
I will go higher than the clouds; I will be like the Most High.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the Most High.'

King James Version (1611)
I wil ascend aboue the heights of the cloudes, I wil bee like the most High.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
I wyll clymbe vp aboue the cloudes, and wyll be lyke the hyghest of all.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
I will go up above the clouds: I will be like the Most High.

English Revised Version
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the Most High.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Y schal stie on the hiynesse of cloudis; Y schal be lijk the hiyeste.

Update Bible Version
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.

Webster's Bible Translation
I will ascend above the hights of the clouds; I will be like the Most High.

New English Translation
I will climb up to the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High!"

New King James Version
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High.'

New Living Translation
I will climb to the highest heavens and be like the Most High.'

New Revised Standard
I will ascend to the tops of the clouds, I will make myself like the Most High."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
I will mount on the hills of the clouds, I will match the Most High!

Douay-Rheims Bible
I will ascend above the height of the clouds, I will be like the most High.

Revised Standard Version
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will make myself like the Most High.'

Young's Literal Translation
I go up above the heights of a thick cloud, I am like to the Most High.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
'I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.'

Contextual Overview

⁴ you will speak against the king of Babylon, and say, "How the one who made it hard for us has been stopped! How his anger has been stopped! ⁵ The Lord has broken the walking stick of the sinful, the power of rulers, ⁶ which used to beat the people in anger without stopping. The nations were ruled in anger. It was very hard for the people and there was no pity shown to them. ⁷ "Now the whole earth is at rest and quiet. They sing out with joy. ⁸ Even the cypress trees and the cedars of Lebanon are glad over you, and say, ‘Since you were cut down no one comes to cut us down.' ⁹ The world of the dead below wants to meet you when you come. It wakes up the spirits of the dead for you, all the leaders of the earth. It raises all the kings of the nations from their thrones. ¹⁰ All of them will speak and say to you, ‘Even you have become as weak as we. You have become like us. ¹¹ Your honor and power along with the music of your harps have been brought down to the place of the dead. Worms are spread out as your bed under you and worms cover you.' ¹² "How you have fallen from heaven, O shining one, son of the morning! You have been cut down to the earth, you who have made the nations weak! ¹³ You said in your heart, ‘I will go up to heaven. I will raise my throne above the stars of God. And I will sit on the mount of meeting in the far north.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

ascend: Isaiah 37:23, Isaiah 37:24

I will be: Isaiah 47:8, Genesis 3:5, 2 Thessalonians 2:4

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 32:8 - Most 2 Kings 19:22 - exalted thy voice Job 20:6 - his excellency Job 35:12 - because Psalms 37:35 - I have Isaiah 47:1 - there is Jeremiah 50:29 - for she hath Ezekiel 28:2 - I sit Ezekiel 31:2 - Whom

Cross-References

Genesis 12:5
Abram took his wife Sarai, and his brother's son Lot, and all the things they had gathered, and the people who joined them in Haran. And they left to go to the land of Canaan. So they came to the land of Canaan.

Genesis 12:16
And Pharaoh acted well toward Abram because of Sarai. He gave Abram sheep, cattle, male and female donkeys, and camels, and men and women servants.

Genesis 13:8
So Abram said to Lot, "Let there be no fighting between you and me or between the men who take care of our animals, for we are brothers.

Genesis 14:1
It was in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim,

Genesis 14:2
that they made war against Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar).

Genesis 14:3
All these joined together in the valley of Siddim (that is, the Salt Sea).

Genesis 14:5
Then in the fourteenth year, Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him came and won a war against the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim, the Zuzim in Ham, the Emim in Shavehkiriathaim,

Genesis 14:11
Then those who won the war took all that belonged to Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their food, and left.

Genesis 14:12
They also took Lot, the son of Abram's brother, who lived in Sodom, and all that belonged to him, and left.

Genesis 15:3
Abram said, "Because You have not given me a child, one born in my house will be given all I have."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I will ascend above the heights of the clouds,.... Which are the chariots of God, and in which he rides, and so this proud monarch affected to be as he; perhaps some reference is had to the cloud in which Jehovah dwelt in the temple. The Targum is,

"I will ascend above all people,''

compared to clouds for their multitude. In the mystical sense, the true ministers of the word may be meant, so called for their height, motion, swiftness, and fulness of Gospel doctrine, compared to rain; see Isaiah 5:6.

I will be like the most High; so Satan affected to be, and this was the bait he laid for our first parents, and with which they were taken; and nothing less than deity could satisfy some ambitious princes, as Caligula, and others; and this was what the Babylonish monarch aspired to, and ordered to be ascribed to him, and be regarded as such, either while living, or at least after death, which was what had been done to many Heathen princes. So antichrist is represented as showing himself to be God, 2 Thessalonians 2:4 by calling and suffering himself to be called God; by assuming all power in heaven and in earth; taking upon him to depose kings and dispose of kingdoms at pleasure; dispensing with the laws of God, and making new ones; absolving men from their oaths, pardoning their sins, setting up himself as infallible, as the sole interpreter of Scripture, and judge of controversies. The Targum is,

"I will he higher than them all;''

than the kings of the earth, and all other bishops.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I will be like the Most High - There is a remarkable resemblance between this language and that used in 2 Thessalonians 2:4, in regard to antichrist: ‘He, as God, sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.’ And this similarity is the more remarkable, because antichrist is represented, in Revelation 17:4-5, as seated in babylon - the spiritual seat of arrogance, oppression, and pride. Probably Paul had the passage in Isaiah in his eye when he penned the description of antichrist.