Ezekiel 28:1–10
A Prophecy Aimed at the King of Tyre
28 And the word of Yahweh came to me, ⌊saying⌋,a 2 “Son of man,b say to the leader of Tyre, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh:
“Because your heart was haughty,
and you said, ‘I am a god;
I sit in the seat of the gods,
I sit in the heart of the seas!’
Butc you are a human, not a god,
and you gave your heart to be like the heart of a god.
3 Look, are you wiser than Daniel,
so that ⌊no secret⌋d is hidden from you?
4 By your wisdom and by your understanding
you have gained for yourself wealth,
and you have amassed gold and silver
in your treasuries.
5 By the abundance of your wisdom in your trading
you have increased your wealth
and your heart was proud ine your wealth.” ’ ”
6 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh:
“Because of your regarding your ⌊mind⌋f
like the ⌊mind⌋g of a god,
7 therefore look! I am bringing strangers over you,
the most ruthless of the peoples,
and they will draw their swords against the beautyh of your wisdom,
and they will defile your splendor.
8 They will thrust you down to the pit,
and you will die ⌊a violent death⌋i
in the heart of the seas.
9 ⌊Will you indeed still say⌋j “I am a god!”
before the face of your killers?k
And in fact you are a humanl and not a god
in the hand of ⌊those who pierce you⌋.m
10 You will die the death of the uncircumcised
by the hand of strangers,