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Isaiah 14:12-17

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12How 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!

13You said in your heart, “I will ascend to the heavens; I will raise my throne above the stars of God; I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly, on the utmost heights of Mount Zaphon. Or of the north; Zaphon was the most sacred mountain of the Canaanites.

14I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.”

15But you are brought down to the realm of the dead, to the depths of the pit.

16Those who see you stare at you, they ponder your fate: “Is this the man who shook the earth and made kingdoms tremble,

17the man who made the world a wilderness, who overthrew its cities and would not let his captives go home?”