The Wrong Kind of Goal Setting
And its Terrible Results!
13 You said to yourself,
"I'll climb to heaven.
I'll set my throne over the stars of God.
I'll run the assembly of angels that meets on sacred Mount Zaphon.
14 I'll climb to the top of the clouds.
I'll take over as King of the Universe!"
15 But you didn't make it, did you?
Instead of climbing up, you came down
Down with the underground dead, down to the abyss of the Pit.
16 People will stare and muse:
"Can this be the one Who terrorized earth and its kingdoms,
17 turned earth to a moonscape,
Wasted its cities, shut up his prisoners to a living death?"
18 Other kings get a decent burial,
honored with eulogies and placed in a tomb.
19 But you're dumped in a ditch unburied, like a stray dog or cat,
Covered with rotting bodies, murdered and indigent corpses.
Your dead body desecrated, mutilated
20 no state funeral for you! You've left your land in ruins, left a legacy of massacre.
The progeny of your evil life will never be named. Oblivion!
Isaiah chapter 14
(from THE MESSAGE: The Bible in Contemporary Language © 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson. All rights reserved.)
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