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Isaiah 14:12
12How art thou fallen from heaven, Lucifer, son of the morning! Thou art cut down to the ground, that didst prostrate the nations!
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 shall answer and say unto thee, Art thou also become powerless as we; art thou become like unto us! 11— Thy pomp is brought down to Sheol, the noise of thy lyres: the maggot is spread under thee, and worms cover thee. How art thou fallen from heaven, Lucifer, son of the morning! Thou art cut down to the ground, that didst prostrate the nations! 13And thou that didst say in thy heart, I will ascend into the heavens, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God, and I will sit upon the mount of assembly, in the recesses of the north; 14I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High:
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אֵ֛יךְ נָפַ֥לְתָּ מִשָּׁמַ֖יִם הֵילֵ֣ל בֶּן־שָׁ֑חַר נִגְדַּ֣עְתָּ לָאָ֔רֶץ חוֹלֵ֖שׁ עַל־גּוֹיִֽם׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Isaiah 14:12
- Isaiah 13:10For the stars of the heavens and the constellations thereof shall not give their light; the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
- Isaiah 34:4And all the host of the heavens shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll; and all their host shall fade away, as a leaf fadeth from off the vine, and as the withered [fruit] from the fig-tree.
- Ezekiel 28:13thou wast in Eden, the garden of God. Every precious stone was thy covering: the sardius, the topaz, and the diamond, the chrysolite, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the carbuncle, and the emerald, and gold. The workmanship of thy tambours and of thy pipes was in thee: in the day that thou wast created were they prepared.
- Luke 10:18And he said to them, I beheld Satan as lightning falling out of heaven.
- 2 Peter 2:4For if God spared not [the] angels who had sinned, but having cast them down to the deepest pit of gloom has delivered them to chains of darkness [to be] kept for judgment;
- Revelation 12:7And there was war in the heaven: Michael and his angels went to war with the dragon. And the dragon fought, and his angels;
- 2 Peter 1:19And we have the prophetic word [made] surer, to which ye do well taking heed (as to a lamp shining in an obscure place) until [the] day dawn and [the] morning star arise in your hearts;
- Revelation 2:28and I will give to him the morning star.
- Revelation 22:16I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify these things to you in the assemblies. I am the root and offspring of David, the bright [and] morning star.
- Isaiah 14:4that thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased, — the exactress of gold ceased!
- Jeremiah 50:23How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken! How is Babylon become an astonishment among the nations!
- Jeremiah 51:20Thou art my maul, [my] weapons of war: and with thee I will break in pieces the nations, and I will with thee 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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