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.

¹² How great is your fall from heaven, O shining one, son of the morning! How are you cut down to the earth, low among the dead bodies!

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.

⁹ A curse on him who gets evil profits for his family, so that he may put his resting-place on high and be safe from the hand of the wrongdoer!

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

⁷ Like the waste from his body he comes to an end for ever: those who have seen him say, Where is he?

²⁷ Shaking with passion, he is biting the earth; he is not able to keep quiet at the sound of the horn;

²⁸ When it comes to his ears he says, Aha! He is smelling the fight from far off, and hearing the thunder of the captains, and the war-cries.

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.

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.

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: