Lifted up against the Lord of heaven

With reference to Daniel 5:22-30—Again in Isa. 13 in predicting the overthrow of the Babylonish empire the Spirit saith, "the stars of the heavens and their constellations shall not give their light; the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine" (ver. 10). The meaning of this is explained in the succeeding verses, as the punishing of the taivail (world) of Babylon, made up of its wicked, proud, and terrible, civil, idolatrous, and military peoples. Read the whole chapter. As to the Sun of Babylon being darkened in his going forth, the fourteenth chapter exhibits it in beautiful style in the "proverb taken up against the king of Babylon," Belshatzar, in which he is apostrophized as the Day Star of the system, saying, "How art thou fallen from the heavens, O Day Star, son of the morning; thou art cut down to the earth, who didst weaken the nations!" And the reason of his fall is predicted in the next verse, "For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend the heavens, I will exalt my throne above the stars of AIL; I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation on the sides of the north; I will ascend above the heights of the cloud; I will be like the Most High." Read in connexion with this Dan. 5:22-30, where this predicted impiety is forcibly depicted, as the cause of Nebuchadnezzar's Dynasty being cast out of the Babylonish heavens. When Isaiah wrote this prophecy, Babylon had only just begun to appear as a speck upon the political horizon of Judea: but in considering its development, he predicted that its government would aim to overshadow YAHWEH'S kingdom of Judah; and to establish its dominion above "the Stars" of Aaron and David's houses, and over "the heights" of Moriah and Zion, which were "the heights of the cloud" that rested upon the Wings of the Cherubim in the Most Holy Place.