...made the first proud creature deliver himself thus : ' I will ascend to heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God, I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, on the side of the north, I will ascend above the height of the clouds, I will be like the most High....

...in the first line, and the whole of Jerusalem in the second. A parallel passage is Isaiah xiv. 13 : "I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the thighs of the north." The mount of the congregation is the temple hill, the thighs of the north include...