Isaiah 14:14
Good News Translation
You said you would climb to the tops of the clouds and be like the Almighty.

New Revised Standard Version
I will ascend to 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."

New American Bible
I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will be like the Most High!”

Douay-Rheims Bible
I will ascend above the height of the clouds, I will be like the most High.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I will ascend above the height of the clouds, I will be like the most High.

ascend

Isaiah 37:23,24 Whom hast thou reproached, and whom hast thou blasphemed, and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thy eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel. . . .

I will be

Isaiah 47:8 And now hear these things, thou that art delicate, and dwellest confidently, that sayest in thy heart: I am, and there is none else besides me: I shall not sit as a widow, and I shall not know barrenness.

Genesis 3:5 For God doth know that in what day soever you shall eat thereof, your eyes shall be opened: and you shall be as Gods, knowing good and evil.

2 Thessalonians 2:4 Who opposeth and is lifted up above all that is called God or that is worshipped, so that he sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself as if he were God.

Context
Downfall of the King of Babylon
13And thou saidst in thy heart: I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God, I will sit in the mountain of the covenant, in the sides of the north. 14I will ascend above the height of the clouds, I will be like the most High.15But yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, into the depth of the pit.…
Cross References
2 Thessalonians 2:4
Who opposeth and is lifted up above all that is called God or that is worshipped, so that he sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself as if he were God.

Genesis 3:5
For God doth know that in what day soever you shall eat thereof, your eyes shall be opened: and you shall be as Gods, knowing good and evil.

Job 20:6
If his pride mount up even to heaven, and his head touch the clouds:

Isaiah 47:8
And now hear these things, thou that art delicate, and dwellest confidently, that sayest in thy heart: I am, and there is none else besides me: I shall not sit as a widow, and I shall not know barrenness.

Ezekiel 28:2
Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre: Thus saith the Lord God: Because thy heart is lifted up, and thou hast said: I am God, and I sit in the chair of God in the heart of the sea: whereas thou art a man, and not God: and hast set thy heart as if it were the heart of God.

Ezekiel 31:10
Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Because he was exalted in height, and shot up his top green and thick, and his heart was lifted up in his height:

Isaiah 14:13
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