New King James Version

Isaiah 14:13-18 New King James Version (NKJV)

13. For you have said in your heart:‘I will ascend into heaven,I will exalt my throne above the stars of God;I will also sit on the mount of the congregationOn the farthest sides of the north;

14. I will ascend above the heights of the clouds,I will be like the Most High.’

15. Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol,To the lowest depths of the Pit.

16. “Those who see you will gaze at you,And consider you, saying:‘Is this the man who made the earth tremble,Who shook kingdoms,

17. Who made the world as a wildernessAnd destroyed its cities,Who did not open the house of his prisoners?’

18. “All the kings of the nations,All of them, sleep in glory,Everyone in his own house;