Isaiah 14:14
New International Version
I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.”

New Living Translation
I will climb to the highest heavens and 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.’

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

King James Bible
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be 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 American Standard Bible
‘I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.’

NASB 1995
‘I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.’

NASB 1977
‘I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.’

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

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

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

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

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And I shall ascend above the height of the clouds and I shall be like The Highest’

Brenton Septuagint Translation
I will go up above the clouds: I will be like the Most High.

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
I will ascend above the height of 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.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
I'll go above the top of the clouds. I'll be like the Most High."

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

International Standard Version
I'll ascend above the tops of the clouds; I'll make myself like the Most High.'

JPS Tanakh 1917
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the Most High.'

Literal Standard Version
I go up above the heights of a thick cloud, I am like to the Most High.

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

New American Bible
I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will be like the Most High!”

NET Bible
I will climb up to the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High!"

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

New Heart English Bible
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.

World English Bible
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.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Downfall of the King of Babylon
13You said in your heart: “I will ascend to the heavens; I will raise my throne above the stars of God. I will sit on the mount of assembly, in the far reaches of the north. 14I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.” 15But you will be brought down to Sheol, to the lowest depths of the Pit.…

Cross References
2 Thessalonians 2:4
He will oppose and exalt himself above every so-called god or object of worship. So he will seat himself in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.

Genesis 3:5
"For God knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."

Job 20:6
Though his arrogance reaches the heavens, and his head touches the clouds,

Isaiah 47:8
So now hear this, O lover of luxury who sits securely, who says to herself, 'I am, and there is none besides me. I will never be a widow or know the loss of children.'

Ezekiel 28:2
"Son of man, tell the ruler of Tyre that 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.

Ezekiel 31:10
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: 'Since it became great in height and set its top among the clouds, and it grew proud on account of its height,


Treasury of Scripture

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

ascend

Isaiah 37:23,24
Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel…

I will be

Isaiah 47:8
Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:

Genesis 3:5
For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

2 Thessalonians 2:4
Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

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3. Their triumphant exultation over Babel
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(14) I will be like the most High.--The Chaldaean king is rightly represented as using a Divine name (Elion), which was not essentially Israelite, but common to the Ph?nicians and other kindred nations. (See Genesis 14:18; Daniel 4:24; Luke 8:28; Acts 16:17.) The Persians carried their adulation still further, and applied the title "god" to their kings ('sch. Pers. 623), as the Syrians afterwards did in the case of Antiochus Theos. The Assyrian and Babylonian inscriptions, for the most part, fall short of this, and describe the king as the "servant," or "priest," of Assur, or Bel, or Nebo, "the viceroy, or vicar, of the gods."

Verse 14. - I will be like the Most High (comp. Isaiah 47:8). It is a mistake to say that "the Assyrians gave the name of God to their monarchs" (Kay), or, at any rate, there is no evidence that they did. Nor does any king, either Assyrian or Babylonian, ever assume a Divine title. There is a marked difference in this respect between the Egyptian and the Assyro-Babylonian religions. Probably Isaiah only means that Babylonian monarchs thought of themselves as gods, worked their own wills, were wrapped up in themselves, did not in heart bow down to a higher Power.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
I will ascend
אֶעֱלֶ֖ה (’e·‘ĕ·leh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's 5927: To ascend, in, actively

above
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

the tops
בָּ֣מֳתֵי (bā·mo·ṯê)
Noun - feminine plural construct
Strong's 1116: An elevation

of the clouds;
עָ֑ב (‘āḇ)
Noun - common singular
Strong's 5645: An envelope, darkness, a, cloud, a copse

I will make myself like
אֶדַּמֶּ֖ה (’ed·dam·meh)
Verb - Hitpael - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's 1819: To compare, to resemble, liken, consider

the Most High.”
לְעֶלְיֽוֹן׃ (lə·‘el·yō·wn)
Preposition-l | Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 5945: An elevation, lofty, as title, the Supreme


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