1 [Prope est ut veniat tempus ejus, et dies ejus non elongabuntur. Miserebitur enim Dominus Jacob, et eliget adhuc de Israël, et requiescere eos faciet super humum suam; adjungetur advena ad eos, et adhærebit domui Jacob. 2 Et tenebunt eos populi, et adducent eos in locum suum; et possidebit eos domus Israël super terram Domini in servos et ancillas: et erunt capientes eos qui se ceperant, et subjicient exactores suos.] 3 [Et erit in die illa: cum requiem dederit tibi Deus a labore tuo, et a concussione tua, et a servitute dura qua ante servisti, 4 sumes parabolam istam contra regem Babylonis, et dices: Quomodo cessavit exactor; quievit tributum? 5 Contrivit Dominus baculum impiorum, virgam dominantium, 6 cædentem populos in indignatione plaga insanabili, subjicientem in furore gentes, persequentem crudeliter. 7 Conquievit et siluit omnis terra, gavisa est et exsultavit; 8 abietes quoque lætatæ sunt super te, et cedri Libani: ex quo dormisti, non ascendet qui succidat nos. 9 Infernus subter conturbatus est in occursum adventus tui; suscitavit tibi gigantes. Omnes principes terræ surrexerunt de soliis suis, omnes principes nationum. 10 Universi respondebunt, et dicent tibi: Et tu vulneratus es sicut et nos; nostri similis effectus es. 11 Detracta est ad inferos superbia tua, concidit cadaver tuum; subter te sternetur tinea, et operimentum tuum erunt vermes. 12 Quomodo cecidisti de cælo, Lucifer, qui mane oriebaris? corruisti in terram, qui vulnerabas gentes? 13 Qui dicebas in corde tuo: In cælum conscendam, super astra Dei exaltabo solium meum; sedebo in monte testamenti, in lateribus aquilonis; 14 ascendam super altitudinem nubium, similis ero Altissimo? 15 Verumtamen ad infernum detraheris, in profundum laci. 16 Qui te viderint, ad te inclinabuntur, teque prospicient: Numquid iste est vir qui conturbavit terram, qui concussit regna, 17 qui posuit orbem desertum, et urbes ejus destruxit, vinctis ejus non aperuit carcerem? 18 Omnes reges gentium universi dormierunt in gloria, vir in domo sua; 19 tu autem projectus es de sepulchro tuo, quasi stirps inutilis pollutus, et obvolutus cum his qui interfecti sunt gladio, et descenderunt ad fundamenta laci, quasi cadaver putridum. 20 Non habebis consortium, neque cum eis in sepultura; tu enim terram tuam disperdidisti, tu populum tuum occidisti: non vocabitur in æternum semen pessimorum. 21 Præparate filios ejus occisioni, in iniquitate patrum suorum: non consurgent, nec hæreditabunt terram, neque implebunt faciem orbis civitatum. 22 Et consurgam super eos, dicit Dominus exercituum; et perdam Babylonis nomen, et reliquias, et germen, et progeniem, dicit Dominus; 23 et ponam eam in possessionem ericii, et in paludes aquarum, et scopabo eam in scopa terens, dicit Dominus exercituum.] 24 [Juravit Dominus exercituum, dicens: Si non, ut putavi, ita erit; et quomodo mente tractavi, 25 sic eveniet: ut conteram Assyrium in terra mea, et in montibus meis conculcem eum; et auferetur ab eis jugum ejus, et onus illius ab humero eorum tolletur. 26 Hoc consilium quod cogitavi super omnem terram; et hæc est manus extenta super universas gentes. 27 Dominus enim exercituum decrevit; et quis poterit infirmare? et manus ejus extenta; et quis avertet eam?] 28 In anno quo mortuus est rex Achaz, factum est onus istud: 29 [Ne lætaris, Philisthæa omnis tu, quoniam comminuta est virga percussoris tui; de radice enim colubri egredietur regulus, et semen ejus absorbens volucrem. 30 Et pascentur primogeniti pauperum, et pauperes fiducialiter requiescent; et interire faciam in fame radicem tuam, et reliquias tuas interficiam. 31 Ulula, porta; clama civitas; prostrata est Philisthæa omnis; ab aquilone enim fumus veniet, et non est qui effugiet agmen ejus. 32 Et quid respondebitur nuntiis gentis? Quia Dominus fundavit Sion, et in ipso sperabunt pauperes populi ejus.]
Isaiah 14 Clementine Vulgate
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- 1 Psalm 102:13; Zechariah 1:17; Ephesians 2:12–19; Isaiah 54:7–8; Zechariah 8:22–23
- 2 Isaiah 61:5; Isaiah 60:14; Jeremiah 30:16; Daniel 7:25–27; Isaiah 60:9–12
- 3 Jeremiah 30:10; Ezra 9:8–9; Isaiah 32:18; Jeremiah 46:27–28; Zechariah 8:8
- 4 Isaiah 49:26; Jeremiah 50:22–23; Revelation 18:16; Revelation 18:5–8; Revelation 16:5–6
- 5 Psalm 125:3; Isaiah 9:4; Isaiah 14:29; Jeremiah 48:15–17; Isaiah 10:5
- 6 Daniel 7:19–21; Jeremiah 50:31; Revelation 17:16–17; James 2:13; Revelation 18:8–10
- 7 Psalm 126:1–3; Psalm 96:11–13; Isaiah 49:13; Psalm 98:7–9; Proverbs 11:10
- 8 Ezekiel 31:16; Isaiah 55:12–13; Zechariah 11:2
- 9 Ezekiel 32:21–32; Jeremiah 50:8; Proverbs 15:24
- 10 Psalm 82:6–7; Ezekiel 32:21; Ecclesiastes 2:16; Psalm 49:6–14; Psalm 49:20
- 11 Daniel 5:25–30; Ezekiel 32:19–20; Isaiah 21:4–5; Job 17:13–14; Job 21:11–15
- 12 Ezekiel 28:13–17; Luke 10:18; Revelation 12:7–10; Revelation 8:10; Revelation 22:16
- 13 Daniel 8:10–12; Ezekiel 28:2; Ezekiel 28:12–16; 2 Thessalonians 2:4; Ezekiel 29:3
- 14 Isaiah 47:8; Genesis 3:5; 2 Thessalonians 2:4; Isaiah 37:23–24
- 15 Matthew 11:23; Acts 12:22–23; Ezekiel 32:23; Revelation 19:20; Luke 10:15
- 16 Jeremiah 50:23; Psalm 58:10–11; Jeremiah 51:20–23; Isaiah 14:4–5; Psalm 52:7
- 17 Joel 2:3; Ezekiel 6:14; Isaiah 58:6; Isaiah 13:19–22; Ezra 1:2–4
- 18 2 Chronicles 24:16; Ezekiel 32:18–32; 2 Chronicles 24:25; Job 30:23; Isaiah 22:16
- 19 Jeremiah 41:9; Jeremiah 41:7; 2 Kings 9:34–36; Jeremiah 22:19; 1 Kings 21:19
- 20 Psalm 21:10; Job 18:19; Psalm 37:28; Psalm 109:13; Job 18:16
- 21 Matthew 23:35; Leviticus 26:39; Habakkuk 2:8–12; Exodus 20:5; Isaiah 27:6
- 22 1 Kings 14:10; Jeremiah 50:29–35; Proverbs 10:7; Isaiah 43:14; Jeremiah 51:62–64
- 23 Zephaniah 2:14; Isaiah 13:21–22; 1 Kings 14:10; Isaiah 34:11–15; Revelation 14:8
- 24 Proverbs 19:21; Job 23:13; Isaiah 46:10–11; Jeremiah 29:11; Acts 4:28
- 25 Isaiah 9:4; Isaiah 37:36–38; Nahum 1:13; Isaiah 10:12; Isaiah 10:32–34
- 26 Isaiah 23:9; Zephaniah 3:6–8; Exodus 15:12; Isaiah 5:25
- 27 Isaiah 43:13; Job 23:13; 2 Chronicles 20:6; Proverbs 21:30; Job 9:12
- 28 2 Kings 16:20; 2 Chronicles 28:27; Isaiah 13:1; Isaiah 6:1
- 29 Isaiah 11:8; 2 Chronicles 26:6; Isaiah 30:6; 2 Chronicles 28:18; Hosea 9:1
- 30 Isaiah 7:21–22; Zephaniah 2:4–7; Isaiah 8:21; Zechariah 9:5–7; Isaiah 30:23–24
- 31 Jeremiah 1:14; Isaiah 20:1; Jeremiah 25:16–20; Isaiah 14:29; Isaiah 13:6
- 32 Psalm 87:5; Psalm 102:16; Psalm 87:1; James 2:5; Zephaniah 3:12
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… loved and feared, not for Thy sake, but in Thy stead, by which means, being made like unto him, he may have them as his, not in harmony of love, but in the fellowship of punishment; who aspired to exalt his throne in the north, that dark and cold they might serve him, imitating Thee in perverse and distorted ways.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 1 (1886)
Such an one was he that saith, "I will exalt my throne above the Heavens." and did not account himself to be worthy so much as of the title of the apostles, after so many and so great deeds of goodness.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
And how do they answer the prophetic proofs,--either what Isaiah says when he represents the devil under the person of the king of Babylon, "How art thou fallen, O Lucifer, son of the morning!" or what Ezekiel says, "Thou hast been in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering," where it is meant that he was …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
For example, what is said in Isaiah, "How he is fallen from heaven, Lucifer, son of the morning!" and the other statements of the context which, under the figure of the king of Babylon, are made about the same person, are of course to be understood of the devil; and yet the statement which is made in the same place, …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)