The answer of the Lord

If she dared to obey my command.
Look back and see how all your arts are based on lies:
Yet in these threats you shall see the same result;
I will answer you now in your own manner:
You say that you would compel my servant,
With all the armies you have in hell,
To take her life if she would not comply;
Then, Satan, stand and hear what I say:
With all the armies I have above,
I will now defend all those who love ME;
And you shall shortly see my mighty power,
And I will shortly devour all your host;
And we shall see if you can be a supreme king,
By all your hellish host that you gained,
First by temptations that were full of lies.
Look back and see when you rose up in heaven,
With pride and envy, and swelled with rage,
Because you could not compel all the heavens
To worship you, so that you might be supreme.
Look back and see how you have laid your trap here:
And know that you laid it just the same in heaven,
And said your wisdom was supreme to mine;
And so you said you had the greatest power,
And you devoured the angels by your arts,
To draw them from glory and the highest bliss;
You promised happiness that they will now miss.
For as they judged you were the wisest king,
And thought you outshone ME in wisdom;
For, as you have pleaded with the woman here,
You know you surely appeared in heaven in that same way;
Your fury went in all that same manner,
I know you swelled the angels with deceit,
To tell them plainly that you had supreme power,
And you falsely told them they should gain pleasures
If they would only worship you in their hearts:
And so you drew my angels away.
And, by your arts, you say I was unjust * When cast out of heaven, the same feelings prevailed among the fallen angels—that God was unjust—as they do today.

When you were cast out of heaven by ME;
For, like your pleading with the woman here,
You and your angels appeared daily,
Until you then began to threaten,
And you well know I cast you out for that;
And then you all agreed together
To plead against my just decrees.*
In the same manner you have spoken here,
You and your angels appeared in that way,