Isaiah 14:13

14:13 You said to yourself, ¹ 

“I will climb up to the sky.

Above the stars of El ² 

I will set up my throne.

I will rule on the mountain of assembly

on the remote slopes of Zaphon. ³ 

Isaiah 49:21

49:21 Then you will think to yourself, ⁴ 

‘Who bore these children for me?

I was bereaved and barren,

dismissed and divorced. ⁵ 

Who raised these children?

Look, I was left all alone;

where did these children come from?’”

[14:13]  ¹ tn Heb “you, you said in your heart.”

[14:13]  ² sn In Canaanite mythology the stars of El were astral deities under the authority of the high god El.

[14:13]  ³ sn Zaphon, the Canaanite version of Olympus, was the “mountain of assembly” where the gods met.

[49:21]  ⁴ tn Heb “and you will say in your heart.”

[49:21]  ⁵ tn Or “exiled and thrust away”; NIV “exiled and rejected.”