Ezekiel 28

The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying, ²Son of man, say unto ^athe prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord God; ^bBecause ^cthine heart is lifted up, and ^dthou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, ^ein the midst of the seas; yet ^fthou art a man, and not God, though ^gthou set thine heart as the heart of God: ³behold, ^hthou art wiser than ⁱDaniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee: ^4hjwith thy wisdom and with thine understanding ^kthou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures: ⁵by thy great wisdom and by ^lthy traffick ^khast thou increased thy riches, and ^cmthine heart is lifted up because of thy riches: ⁶therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because ^gthou hast set thine heart as the heart of God; ⁷behold therefore, I will bring ⁿstrangers upon thee, ^opthe terrible of the nations: and ^othey shall draw their swords against ^qthe beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile ^qthy brightness. ⁸They shall bring thee down ^rto the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain ^ein the midst of the seas. ^9dWilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but ^fthou shalt be a man, and no God, in the hand of him that slayeth thee. ¹⁰Thou shalt die the deaths of ^sthe uncircumcised by the hand of ⁿstrangers: for ^tI have spoken it, saith the Lord God.

¹¹Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, ¹²Son of man, ^utake up a lamentation upon ^athe king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord God; Thou sealest up ^vthe sum, ^hfull of wisdom, and ^wperfect in beauty. ¹³Thou hast been in ^xEden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, ^ythe sardius, ^yztopaz, and ^athe diamond, ^bthe beryl, ^cthe onyx, and ^dthe jasper, ^ethe sapphire, ^fthe emerald, and ^gthe carbuncle, and ^cgold: ^hthe workmanship of thy ⁱtabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in ^kthe day that thou wast created. ¹⁴Thou art the anointed ^lcherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon ^mthe holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of ⁿthe stones of fire. ¹⁵Thou wast perfect in thy ways from ^kthe day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee. ¹⁶By the multitude of ^othy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of ^mthe mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, ^lO covering cherub, from the midst of ⁿthe stones of fire. ^17pThine heart was lifted up because of ^qthy beauty, thou hast corrupted ^qthy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee. ^18rThou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of ^othy traffick; therefore ^swill I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee. ¹⁹All they that know thee among the people ^tshall be astonished at thee: ^uthou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more.

²⁰Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, ²¹Son of man, ^vset thy face ^wagainst Zidon, and ^vprophesy against it, ²²and say, Thus saith the Lord God; ^xBehold, I am against thee, O Zidon; and ^xxI will be glorified in the midst of thee: and ^ythey shall know that I am the Lord, ^yywhen I shall have executed judgments in her, ^zand shall be sanctified in her. ²³For I will send into her ^apestilence, and ^ablood into her streets; and the wounded shall be judged in the midst of her by the sword upon her on every side; ^band they shall know that I am the Lord. ²⁴And ^cthere shall be no more ^da pricking brier unto the house of Israel, nor any grieving thorn ^eof all that are round about them, ^fthat despised them; ^band they shall know that I am the Lord God. ²⁵Thus saith the Lord God; ^gWhen I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered, and ^bgshall be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, then ^hshall they dwell in their land that I have given to my servant Jacob. ²⁶And ⁱthey shall dwell safely therein, and shall ^kbuild houses, and ^kplant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with confidence, ^bwhen I have executed judgments ^fupon all those that despise them round about them; ^band they shall know that I am the Lord their God.

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