Isaiah 14:14

Literal Standard Version

I go up above the heights of a thick cloud, I am like to 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 Life Bible
I will go much higher than the clouds. I will make myself 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

⁴That you have taken up this allegory || Concerning the king of Babylon, and said, "How the exactor has ceased, ⁵The golden one has ceased. YHWH has broken the staff of the wicked, || The scepter of rulers. ⁶He who is striking peoples in wrath, || A striking without intermission, || He who is ruling nations in anger, || Pursuing without restraint! ⁷At rest—all the earth has been quiet, || They have broken forth [into] singing. ⁸Even firs have rejoiced over you, || Cedars of Lebanon, [saying], Since you have lain down, || The hewer does not come up against us. ⁹Sheol beneath has been troubled at you, || To meet your coming in, || It is waking up Rephaim for you, || All chief ones of earth, || It has raised up from their thrones || All kings of nations. ¹⁰All of them answer and say to you, Even you have become weak like us! You have become like to us! ¹¹Your excellence has been brought down to Sheol, || The noise of your stringed instruments, || The worm has been spread out under you, || Indeed, the worm is covering you. ¹²How you have fallen from the heavens, || O shining one, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to earth, || O weakener of nations. ¹³And you said in your heart: I go up into the heavens, || I raise my throne above the stars of God, || And I sit on the mountain of meeting in the sides of the 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
And Abram takes his wife Sarai, and his brother's son Lot, and all their substance that they have gained, and the persons that they have obtained in Haran; and they go out to go toward the land of Canaan; and they come to the land of Canaan.

Genesis 12:16
and to Abram he has done good because of her, and he has sheep and oxen, and male donkeys, and menservants, and handmaids, and female donkeys, and camels.

Genesis 13:8
And Abram says to Lot, "Please let there not be strife between me and you, and between my shepherds and your shepherds, for we [are] men—brothers.

Genesis 14:1
And it comes to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of nations,

Genesis 14:2
they have made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboim, and the king of Bela, which [is] Zoar.

Genesis 14:3
All these have been joined together to the Valley of Siddim, which [is] the Salt Sea;

Genesis 14:5
And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings who [are] with him, and they strike the Rephaim in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh Kiriathaim,

Genesis 14:11
And they take the whole substance of Sodom and Gomorrah, and the whole of their food, and go away;

Genesis 14:12
and they take Lot, Abram's brother's son (seeing he is dwelling in Sodom), and his substance, and go away.

Genesis 15:3
And Abram says, "Behold, to me You have not given seed, and behold, a servant will be my heir."

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.