Isaiah 14:12

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

10They all respond to you, saying, “You too have become as weak as we are; you have become like us! 11Your splendor has been brought down to Sheol, along with the music of your harps. Maggots are spread out under you, and worms cover you.” Shining morning star, how you have fallen from the heavens! You destroyer of nations, you have been cut down to the ground. 13You said to yourself, “I will ascend to the heavens; I will set up my throne above the stars of God. I will sit on the mount of the gods’ assembly, in the remotest parts of the North. 14I will ascend above the highest clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.”

Isaiah 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 13:10Indeed, the stars of the sky and its constellations will not give their light. The sun will be dark when it rises, and the moon will not shine.
• Isaiah 34:4All the stars in the sky will dissolve. The sky will roll up like a scroll, and its stars will all wither as leaves wither on the vine, and foliage on the fig tree.
• Ezekiel 28:13You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every kind of precious stone covered you: carnelian, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, lapis lazuli, turquoise and emerald. Your mountings and settings were crafted in gold; they were prepared on the day you were created.
• Luke 10:18He said to them, “I watched Satan fall from heaven like lightning.
• 2 Peter 2:4For if God didn’t spare the angels who sinned but cast them into hell and delivered them in chains of utter darkness to be kept for judgment;
• Revelation 12:7Then war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon. The dragon and his angels also fought,
• 2 Peter 1:19We also have the prophetic word strongly confirmed, and you will do well to pay attention to it, as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.
• Revelation 2:28just as I have received this from my Father. I will also give him the morning star.
• Revelation 22:16“I, Jesus, have sent my angel to attest these things to you for the churches. I am the Root and descendant of David, the bright morning star.”
• Isaiah 14:4you will sing this song of contempt about the king of Babylon and say: How the oppressor has quieted down, and how the raging has become quiet!
• Jeremiah 50:23How the hammer of the whole earth is cut down and smashed! What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!
• Jeremiah 51:20You are my war club, my weapons of war. With you I will smash nations; with you I will bring kingdoms to ruin.

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

Topics related to Isaiah 14:12

• Ambition
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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