² Even if they go deep into the underworld, my hand will take them up from there; if they go up to heaven, I will get them down:

⁴ Though you go up on high like an eagle, though your house is placed among the stars, I will make you come down from there, says the Lord.

⁵³ Even if Babylon was lifted up to heaven, even if she had the high places of her strength shut in with walls, still I would send against her those who will make her waste, says the Lord.

⁷ Where may I go from your spirit? how may I go in flight from you?

⁸ If I go up to heaven, you are there: or if I make my bed in the underworld, you are there.

⁹ If I take the wings of the morning, and go to the farthest parts of the sea;

¹⁰ Even there will I be guided by your hand, and your right hand will keep me.

¹⁸ And he said, I was watching for Satan, falling from heaven like a star.

¹³ You were in Eden, the garden of God; every stone of great price was your clothing, the sardius, the topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the emerald and the carbuncle: your store-houses were full of gold, and things of great price were in you; in the day when you were made they were got ready.

¹⁴ I gave you your place with the winged one; I put you on the mountain of God; you went up and down among the stones of fire.

¹⁵ There has been no evil in your ways from the day when you were made, till sin was seen in you.

¹⁶ Through all your trading you have become full of violent ways, and have done evil: so I sent you out shamed from the mountain of God; the winged one put an end to you from among the stones of fire.

¹⁶ ... the pride of your heart has been a false hope, O you who are living in the cracks of the rock, keeping your place on the top of the hill: even if you made your living-place as high as the eagle, I would make you come down, says the Lord.

¹³ For you said in your heart, I will go up to heaven, I will make my seat higher than the stars of God; I will take my place on the mountain of the meeting-place of the gods, in the inmost parts of the north.

¹⁴ I will go higher than the clouds; I will be like the Most High.

¹⁵ But you will come down to the underworld, even to its inmost parts.

¹⁶ Those who see you will be looking on you with care, they will be in deep thought, saying, Is this the troubler of the earth, the shaker of kingdoms?

¹⁹ And men will go into cracks of the rocks, and into holes of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and before the glory of his power, when he comes out of his place, shaking the earth with his strength.

⁶ The underworld is uncovered before him, and Destruction has no veil.

⁶ Though he is lifted up to the heavens, and his head goes up to the clouds;