Isaiah 14:13-15

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¹³You 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]
¹⁴I will ascend above the tops of the clouds;^(E)
    I will make myself like the Most High.”^(F)
¹⁵But you are brought down^(G) to the realm of the dead,^(H)
    to the depths^(I) of the pit.^(J)

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Footnotes

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

Genesis 19:24-28

New International Version

²⁴Then the Lord rained down burning sulfur^(A) on Sodom and Gomorrah^(B)—from the Lord out of the heavens.^(C) ²⁵Thus he overthrew those cities^(D) and the entire plain,^(E) destroying all those living in the cities—and also the vegetation in the land.^(F) ²⁶But Lot’s wife looked back,^(G) and she became a pillar of salt.^(H)

²⁷Early the next morning Abraham got up and returned to the place where he had stood before the Lord.^(I) ²⁸He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah, toward all the land of the plain, and he saw dense smoke rising from the land, like smoke from a furnace.^(J)

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