⁴ Though you mount on high as the eagle, and though your nest is set among the stars, I will bring you down from there, says Yahweh.

¹² How you are fallen from heaven, day-star, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low!

¹³ You said in your heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; and I will sit on the mountain of congregation, in the uttermost parts of the north;

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

¹⁵ Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the uttermost parts of the pit.

⁹ Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!

⁶ Though his height mount up to the heavens, And his head reach to the clouds,

⁷ Yet he shall perish forever like his own dung, Those who have seen him shall say, 'Where is he?'

²⁷ Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up, And makes his nest on high?

²⁸ On the cliff he dwells, and makes his home, On the point of the cliff, and the stronghold.

¹⁶ As for your terror, the pride of your heart has deceived you, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill: though you should make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there, says Yahweh.

⁵³ Though Babylon should mount up to the sky, and though she should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall destroyers come to her, says Yahweh.

² Though they dig into Sheol, there my hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, there I will bring them down.