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Isaiah 14:12
12How you have fallen from heaven, O star of the morning [light-bringer], son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, You who have weakened the nations [king of Babylon]!
Isaiah 14:12 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)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!
- New International Version (NIV)How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations!
- English Standard Version (ESV)"How you are fallen from heaven, O Day Star, son of Dawn! How you are cut down to the ground, you who laid the nations low!
- New King James Version (NKJV)“How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, You who weakened the nations!
Context of Isaiah 14:12
10All of them will respond [tauntingly] and say to you, ‘You have become as weak as we are. You have become like us. 11Your pomp and magnificence have been brought down to Sheol, Along with the music of your harps; The maggots [which prey on the dead] are spread out under you [as a bed] And worms are your covering [Babylonian rulers].’ How you have fallen from heaven, O star of the morning [light-bringer], son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, You who have weakened the nations [king of Babylon]! 13But you said in your heart, ‘I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throne above the stars of God; I will sit on the mount of assembly In the remote parts of the north. 14I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.’
Read all of Isaiah 14Isaiah 14:12 word by word
אֵ֛יךְ נָפַ֥לְתָּ מִשָּׁמַ֖יִם הֵילֵ֣ל בֶּן־שָׁ֑חַר נִגְדַּ֣עְתָּ לָאָ֔רֶץ חוֹלֵ֖שׁ עַל־גּוֹיִֽם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- How art thou fallenנָפַלnâphal · to fall: fallH5307
- from heavenשָׁמַיִםshâmayim shâmeh · heavenH8064
- O Luciferהֵילֵלhêylêl · Day StarH1966
- sonבֵּןbên · son: childH1121
- of the morningיָלַלyâlal · to wailH3213
- of the morningשַׁ֫חַרshachar · dawnH7837
- art thou cut downגָּדַעgâda‛ · to cut down/offH1438
- to the groundאֶ֫רֶץ'erets · land: soilH776
- which didst weakenחָלַשׁchâlash · to weakenH2522
- the nationsגּוֹיgôy gôy · nationH1471
Cross-references for Isaiah 14:12
- Isaiah 13:10For the stars of heaven and their constellations Will not flash with their light; The sun will be dark when it rises, And the moon will not shed its light.
- Isaiah 34:4All the host of heaven will be dissolved, And the skies will be rolled up like a scroll; All their hosts [the stars and the planets] will also wither away As a leaf withers from the vine, And as a fig withers from the fig tree.
- Ezekiel 28:13You were in Eden, the garden of God; Every precious stone was your covering: The ruby, the topaz, and the diamond; The beryl, the onyx, and the jasper; The lapis lazuli, the turquoise, and the emerald; And the gold, the workmanship of your settings and your sockets, Was in you. They were prepared On the day that you were created.
- Luke 10:18He said to them, “I watched Satan fall from heaven like [a flash of] lightning.
- 2 Peter 2:4For if God did not [even] spare angels that sinned, but threw them into hell and sent them to pits of gloom to be kept [there] for judgment;
- Revelation 12:7And war broke out in heaven, Michael [the archangel] and his angels waging war with the dragon. The dragon and his angels fought,
- 2 Peter 1:19So we have the prophetic word made more certain. You do well to pay [close] attention to it as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and light breaks through the gloom and the morning star arises in your hearts.
- Revelation 2:28and I will give him the Morning Star.
- Revelation 22:16“I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify to you and to give you assurance of these things for the churches. I am the Root (the Source, the Life) and the Offspring of David, the radiant and bright Morning Star.”
- Isaiah 14:4that you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon, and say, “How the oppressor has ceased [his insolence], And how the fury has ceased!
- Jeremiah 50:23How the hammer of the whole earth Is crushed and broken! How Babylon has become A horror [of desolation] among the nations!
- Jeremiah 51:20“You [Cyrus of Persia, soon to conquer Babylon] are My battle-axe and weapon of war— For with you I shatter nations, With you I destroy kingdoms.
Commentaries on Isaiah 14:12
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 12O Lucifer, son of the morning - The Versions in general agree in this translation, and render הילל heilel as signifying Lucifer, , the morning star, whether Jupiter or Venus; as these are both bringers of the morning light, or morning stars, annually in their turn. And although the context speaks explicitly concerning Nebuchadnezzar, yet this has been, I know not why, applied to the chief of the fallen angels, who is most incongruously denominated…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 12How art thou fallen from heaven - A new image is presented here. It is that of the bright morning star; and a comparison of the once magnificent monarch with that beautiful star. He is now exhibited as having fallen from his place in the east to the earth. His glory is dimmed; his brightness quenched. Nothing can be more poetic and beautiful than a comparison of a magnificent monarch with the bright morning star! Nothing more striking in representing his…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 12fallen from heaven, O day star: These words refer to a well-known Canaanite story. In that story, the god Helel rebelled against the god El, who was the chief god of the Canaanite people. Helel was cast down from heaven. Isaiah uses this image to describe the fall of the king of Babylon. Some interpret the fall of the king of Babylon as symbolizing the fall of Satan (see Ezekiel 28; Luke 10:18; Revelation 12:9). However, there is little evidence that…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1212. Lucifer--"day star." A title truly belonging to Christ (Re 22:16), "the bright and morning star," and therefore hereafter to be assumed by Antichrist. Gesenius, however, renders the Hebrew here as in Eze 21:12; Zec 11:2, "howl." weaken--"prostrate"; as in Ex 17:13, "discomfit."Read the comment
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Commentaries on Isaiah 14
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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