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Isaiah 14:12 KJV
Isaiah · chapter 14 · verse 12
How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!Isaiah 14:12 · King James Version
What Isaiah 14:12 means
The passage is addressed to the king of Babylon, and the name Lucifer is Latin for day star, carried into English through the King James. Many readers see a second figure behind the king. Either way, the five I wills that follow are what the passage turns on.
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Isaiah 14:12 in context
10All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?
11Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.
12How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
13For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
14I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
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Key words (Strong's)
- Luciferhêylêlthe morning-starH1966 →
- morningshachardawnH7837 →
- morningyâlalto howl or yellH3213 →
- fallennâphalto fall, in a great variety of applicationsH5307 →
- heavenshâmayimthe sky (as aloftH8064 →
- groundʼeretsthe earthH776 →
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The kings of Babylon, successively, were the great enemies and oppressors of God's people, and therefore the destruction of Babylon, the fall of the king, and the ruin of his family, are here particularly taken notice of and triumphed in.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 4-23