Over a century before Babylonia became the chief world power, Jehovah’s people were represented as making this declaration against “the king of Babylon ”:“ You have said in your heart, ‘ To the heavens I shall go up.
وَتَظْهَرُ كِبْرِيَاؤُهُ مِنْ خِلَالِ الكَلِمَاتِ التِي دَوَّنَهَا نَبِيُّ اللهِ إِشَعْيَا .‏