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Ezekiel

The Pride and Fall of Tyre's Ruler

Ezekiel 28:1-19
1And the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 2Son of man, say to the leader of Tyre, Thus says the Lord GOD: Because your heart has become proud and you have said, I am a god, I sit in the seat of God in the heart of the seas, yet you are a man and not a god, and you have made your heart like the heart of God, 3behold, you are wiser than Daniel; no hidden thing has been concealed from you, 4By your wisdom and by your understanding you have made wealth for yourself and have made gold and silver in your treasuries, 5By the abundance of your wisdom, by your merchandise you have increased your wealth, and your heart has become proud because of your wealth, 6Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you have set your heart like the heart of God, 7therefore, behold, I am bringing foreigners, the ruthless of the nations, against you, and they will draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom and will profane your splendor, 8They will bring you down to the pit, and you will die the death of the slain in the heart of the seas, 9Will you still say before your killers, I am a god, though you are a man and not a god, in the hand of those who wound you? 10You will die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of foreigners, for I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD. 11And the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 12Son of man, raise a dirge over the king of Tyre and say to him, Thus says the Lord GOD: You were the seal of proportion, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty, 13You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was your covering—sardius, topaz, and jasper, tarshish, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, emerald, and beryl—and gold; the workmanship of your tambourines and sockets was on you on the day you were created; they were prepared. 14You were an anointed cherub who covers, and I placed you on the holy mountain of God; you walked in the midst of stones of fire. 15You were blameless in your ways from the day you were created until injustice was found in you. 16By the abundance of your merchandise your midst was filled with violence, and you sinned; therefore I profaned you from the mountain of God, and I destroyed you, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. 17Your heart was proud because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom on account of your splendor; I cast you to the earth before kings, that they might gaze upon you. 18By the multitude of your iniquities, by the injustice of your merchandise you profaned your sanctuary; therefore I brought fire out from your midst—it consumed you—and I reduced you to ashes on the earth in the sight of all who saw you. 19All who knew you among the peoples were appalled at you; you became a source of terror, and you will be no more forever.
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