“ I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. ”
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,...
Isaiah 13:1 to Isaiah 14:23 . The Utter Ruin of Babylon and Triumphal Ode over her Monarch's Death. Historical conditions are here presupposed entirely different from those of Isaiah's time. The...
of . that is to say. Genitive of Apposition. App-17. the MOST HIGH. Hebrew. Elyon. App-4.
14. I will ascend above the heights of the clouds. (225) It might certainly be thought strange that the Prophet thus accuses the Babylonian monarch, as if he wished to make himself equal to...
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
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! -The Jews address him again as a fallen once-bright star. T...
The Judgment of Babylon and its King This is the first of a series of prophecies dealing mainly with foreign nations. Its subject is Babylon, where the Jews are represented as undergoing exile, fr...
I will be like the most High. — The Chaldaean king is rightly represented as using a Divine name ( Elîôn ) , which was not essentially Israelite, but common to the Phœnicians and other kindred nat...
BOOK 5 PROPHECIES NOT RELATING TO ISAIAH'S TIME In the first thirty-nine Chapter s of the Book of Isaiah-the half which refers to the prophet's own career and the politics contemporary with that...
Anticipating the great day of restoration, the prophet puts into the mouth of Israel the great parable or song which celebrates the downfall of Assyria. This moves in five distinct strophes. In the f...
I do not interrupt the reading through this long chain of the most wonderful events, because it forms one grand whole. The destruction which will ultimately fall upon the enemies of God and of his Ch...
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 i...
I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. Ver. 14. I will ascend above the height of the clouds. ] Ut verbo dicam, ero summa et sacra maiestas. “ Attingit so...
How art thou fallen from heaven From the height of thy glory; O Lucifer Lucifer is properly a bright star, that ushers in the morning; but is here metaphorically taken for the mighty king of Baby...
The Doom of the King of Babylon. B. C. 739. 4 That thou shalt take up this proverb aga...
Above the heights of the clouds, to wit, into heaven, as he said, Isaiah 14:13 . Like the Most High, in the uncontrollableness of my power, and the universal extent of my dominion over all the...
The Demise of Babylon And Humiliation of Its Boastful Kings ( Isaiah 14:3-23 ). The coming of the Babylonian ambassadors to Hezekiah had had a profound influence on Isaiah. As he thought on the fu...
Isaiah 14:1 . For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of J...
Isaiah 14:1 . And set them in their own land. This prediction is so correct, as appears from the books of Nehemiah and Ezra, that no man can doubt the truth of prophecy; and its literal accomplish...
Thou shalt take up this proverb against the King of Babylon The “proverb against the King of Babylon” Lowth is generally thought not to speak with exaggeration when he calls it the finest [song...
EXPOSITION Isaiah 14:1-23 THE RESTORATION OF ISRAEL , AND HER SONG OF TRIUMPH OVER BABYLON . The destruction of Babylon is to be followed by the restoration of Israel, w...
The Deliverance of Israel
2 Thessalonians 2:4 ; Genesis 3:5 ; Isaiah 37:23 ; Isaiah 37:24 ; Isaiah 47:8
Like — In the uncontrolableness of my power, and the universal extent of my dominion.