13 For you have said in your heart:
(A)‘I will ascend into heaven,
(B)I will exalt my throne above the stars of God;
I will also sit on the (C)mount of the congregation
(D)On the farthest sides of the north;

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13 You said in your heart,
    “I will ascend(A) to the heavens;
I will raise my throne(B)
    above the stars of God;
I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly,(C)
    on the utmost heights(D) of Mount Zaphon.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 14:13 Or of the north; Zaphon was the most sacred mountain of the Canaanites.

God’s Anger with Jerusalem

How the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion
With a (A)cloud in His anger!
(B)He cast down from heaven to the earth
(C)The beauty of Israel,
And did not remember (D)His footstool
In the day of His anger.

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[a]How the Lord has covered Daughter Zion
    with the cloud of his anger[b]!(A)
He has hurled down the splendor of Israel
    from heaven to earth;
he has not remembered his footstool(B)
    in the day of his anger.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 2:1 This chapter is an acrostic poem, the verses of which begin with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet.
  2. Lamentations 2:1 Or How the Lord in his anger / has treated Daughter Zion with contempt

20 then I will bring you down (A)with those who descend into the Pit, to the people of old, and I will make you dwell in the lowest part of the earth, in places desolate from antiquity, with those who go down to the Pit, so that you may never be inhabited; and I shall establish glory (B)in the land of the living.

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20 then I will bring you down with those who go down to the pit,(A) to the people of long ago. I will make you dwell in the earth below, as in ancient ruins, with those who go down to the pit, and you will not return or take your place[a] in the land of the living.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 26:20 Septuagint; Hebrew return, and I will give glory

14 So that no trees by the waters may ever again exalt themselves for their height, nor set their tops among the thick boughs, that no tree which drinks water may ever be high enough to reach up to them.

‘For (A)they have all been delivered to death,
(B)To the depths of the earth,
Among the children of men who go down to the Pit.’

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14 Therefore no other trees by the waters are ever to tower proudly on high, lifting their tops above the thick foliage. No other trees so well-watered are ever to reach such a height; they are all destined(A) for death,(B) for the earth below, among mortals who go down to the realm of the dead.(C)

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18 “Son of man, wail over the multitude of Egypt,
And (A)cast them down to the depths of the earth,
Her and the daughters of the famous nations,
With those who go down to the Pit:

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18 “Son of man, wail for the hordes of Egypt and consign(A) to the earth below both her and the daughters of mighty nations, along with those who go down to the pit.(B)

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24 “There is (A)Elam and all her multitude,
All around her grave,
All of them slain, fallen by the sword,
Who have (B)gone down uncircumcised to the lower parts of the earth,
(C)Who caused their terror in the land of the living;
Now they bear their shame with those who go down to the Pit.

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24 “Elam(A) is there, with all her hordes around her grave. All of them are slain, fallen by the sword.(B) All who had spread terror in the land of the living(C) went down uncircumcised to the earth below. They bear their shame with those who go down to the pit.(D)

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