Isa 14:13-17, Jer 25:9-26, Dan 4:30, 5:18-23, Hab 2:5-10 | ESV | STEP | You said in your heart , I will ascend to heaven ; above the stars of God I will set my throne on high ; I will sit on the mount of assembly in the far reaches of the north ;

13 You said in your heart,
^a‘I will ascend to heaven;
above the stars of God
^bI will set my throne on high;
I will sit on the mount of assembly
in the far reaches of the north; ^{▼▼Or in the remote parts of Zaphon}
14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds;
I will make myself like the Most High.’
15 ^dBut you are brought down to Sheol,
to the far reaches of the pit.
16 Those who see you will stare at you
and ponder over you:
‘Is this ^ethe man who made the earth tremble,
who shook kingdoms,
17 who made the world like a desert
and overthrew its cities,
^fwho did not let his prisoners go home?’

Jeremiah 25:9-26

9 ^gbehold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, declares the Lord, and for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, ^hmy servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I will devote them to destruction, ⁱand make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting desolation. 10 Moreover, ^jI will banish from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, ^kthe grinding of the millstones and ^lthe light of the lamp. 11 ^mThis whole land shall become a ruin and a waste, and ⁿthese nations shall serve the king of Babylon ^oseventy years. 12 Then after ^pseventy years are completed, ^qI will punish the king of Babylon and that nation, ^rthe land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, declares the Lord, ^smaking the land an everlasting waste. 13 I will bring upon that land all the words that I have uttered against it, everything written ^tin this book, which Jeremiah prophesied against all the nations. 14 ^uFor many nations ^vand great kings shall make slaves even of them, ^wand I will recompense them according to their deeds and the work of their hands.”

The Cup of the Lord’s Wrath

15 Thus the Lord, the God of Israel, said to me: ^x“Take from my hand this cup of the wine of wrath, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink it. 16 They shall drink and stagger and be crazed because of ^ythe sword that I am sending among them.”

17 So I took the cup from the Lord’s hand, ^zand made all the nations to whom the Lord sent me drink it: 18 ^aaJerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings and officials, ^abto make them a desolation and a waste, a hissing and a curse, as at this day; 19 ^acPharaoh king of Egypt, his servants, his officials, all his people, 20 and ^adall the mixed tribes among them; all the kings of ^aethe land of Uz and all the kings of ^afthe land of the Philistines ( ^agAshkelon, ^ahGaza, Ekron, and the remnant of ^aiAshdod); 21 ^ajEdom, ^akMoab, and the sons of ^alAmmon; 22 all the kings of ^amTyre, all the kings of ^anSidon, and the kings of the coastland across ^aothe sea; 23 ^apDedan, ^aqTema, ^arBuz, and all who cut ^asthe corners of their hair; 24 all the ^atkings of Arabia and all the kings of ^authe mixed tribes who dwell in the desert; 25 all the kings of Zimri, all the kings of ^avElam, and all the kings of ^awMedia; 26 all the kings of ^axthe north, far and near, one after another, and all the kingdoms of the world that are on the face of the earth. And after them the king of ^ayBabylon ^{▼▼Hebrew Sheshach, a code name for Babylon} shall drink.

Daniel 4:30

30 and the king answered and said, ^ba“Is not this great Babylon, which I have built by ^bbmy mighty power as a royal residence and for ^bcthe glory of my majesty?”

Daniel 5:18-23

18 O king, the ^bdMost High God ^begave ^bfNebuchadnezzar your father ^bgkingship and greatness and glory and majesty. 19 And because of the greatness that he gave him, ^bhall peoples, nations, and languages ^bitrembled and feared before him. Whom he would, he killed, and whom he would, he kept alive; whom he would, he raised up, and whom he would, he humbled. 20 But ^bjwhen his heart was lifted up and his spirit was hardened so that he dealt proudly, ^bkhe was brought down from his kingly throne, and his glory was taken from him. 21 ^blHe was driven from among the children of mankind, and his mind was made like that of a beast, and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys. He was fed grass like an ox, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, ^bmuntil he knew that the ^bnMost High God rules the kingdom of mankind and sets over it whom he will. 22 And you his son, ^{▼▼Or successor} ^bpBelshazzar, ^bqhave not humbled your heart, though you knew all this, 23 but you have lifted up yourself against ^brthe Lord of heaven. And ^bsthe vessels of his house have been brought in before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines have drunk wine from them. ^btAnd you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see or hear or know, ^bubut the God in whose hand is your breath, and ^bvwhose are all your ways, ^bwyou have not honored.

Habakkuk 2:5-10

5 “Moreover, wine ^{▼▼Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scroll wealth} is ^bya traitor,
an arrogant man who is never at rest. ^{▼▼The meaning of the Hebrew of these two lines is uncertain}
His greed is as wide as Sheol;
like death ^cahe has never enough.
^cbHe gathers for himself all nations
and collects as his own all peoples.”

Woe to the Chaldeans

6 Shall not all these ^cctake up their taunt against him, with scoffing and riddles for him, and say,

^cd“Woe to him ^cewho heaps up what is not his own—
for ^cfhow long?—
and ^cgloads himself with pledges!”
7 ^chWill not your debtors suddenly arise,
and those awake who will make you tremble?
Then you will be spoil for them.
8 ^ciBecause you have plundered many nations,
all the remnant of the peoples shall plunder you,
^cjfor the blood of man and ^ckviolence to the earth,
to cities and all who dwell in them.
9 ^cl“Woe to him who gets evil gain for his house,
^cmto ^cnset his nest on high,
to be safe from the reach of harm!
10 You have devised shame for your house
^coby cutting off many peoples;
you have forfeited your life.