Ezekiel 28

A Prophecy Aimed at the King of Tyre

28And 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!’

But^c you are a human, not a god,

and you gave your heart to be like the heart of a god.

³Look, are you wiser than Daniel,

so that no secret^d is hidden from you?

⁴By your wisdom and by your understanding

you have gained for yourself wealth,

and you have amassed gold and silver

in your treasuries.

⁵By the abundance of your wisdom in your trading

you have increased your wealth

and your heart was proud in^e your wealth.” ’ ”

⁶Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh:

“Because of your regarding your mind^f

like the mind^g of a god,

⁷therefore look! I am bringing strangers over you,

the most ruthless of the peoples,

and they will draw their swords against the beauty^h of your wisdom,

and they will defile your splendor.

⁸They will thrust you down to the pit,

and you will die a violent deathⁱ

in the heart of the seas.

⁹Will you indeed still say^j “I am a god!”

before the face of your killers?^k

And in fact you are a human^l and not a god

in the hand of those who pierce you.^m

¹⁰You will die the death of the uncircumcised

by the hand of strangers,

for I myselfⁿ have spoken!” declares^o the Lord Yahweh.

¹¹And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,^{p 12}“Son of man,^q raise a lament over the king of Tyre, and you must say to him, ‘thus says the Lord Yahweh:

“You were a perfect model of^r an example,

full of wisdom and perfect of beauty.

¹³You were in Eden, the garden of God,

and every precious stone was your adornment:

carnelian, topaz and moonstone,^s

turquoise, onyx and jasper,

sapphire,^t malachite and emerald.

And gold was the craftsmanship of your settings

and your mountings in you;

on the day when you were created they were prepared.

¹⁴You were an anointed guardian cherub,

and I placed you on God’s holy mountain;^u

you walked in the midst of stones of fire.

¹⁵You were blameless in your ways

from the day when you were created,^v

until wickedness was found in you.

¹⁶In the abundance of your trading,

they filled the midst of you with violence, and you sinned;

and I cast you as a profane thing from the mountain of God,

and I expelled you, the guardian^w cherub,

from the midst of the stones of fire.

¹⁷Your heart was proud because of your beauty;

you ruined your wisdom because of your splendor.

I threw you on the ground before^x kings;

I have exposed you for viewing.^y

¹⁸From the abundance of your iniquities

in the dishonesty of your trading,

I profaned your sanctuaries

and I brought fire from your midst;

it consumed you, and I have turned you to ashes on the earth

before the eyes of everyone who sees you.^z

¹⁹All who know you^a among the peoples

are appalled over you;

you have become as horrors,

and you shall cease to exist forever.” ’ ”^b

²⁰And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,^{c 21}“Son of man,^d set your face toward Sidon and prophesy against it, ²²and you must say, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh:

“Look! I am against you, Sidon,

and I display my glory in the midst of you,

and they will know that I am Yahweh

when I execute my judgments,^e

and I will show myself holy within it.

²³And I will send into it a plague,

and blood will be in its streets.

And the dead will fall in the midst of her

by the sword that is against it from all around;

and they will know that I am Yahweh.

²⁴And there will not be any longer^f a painful thorn and a sharp thornbush for^g the house of Israel from anywhere around them^h from those who are despising them,ⁱ and they will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.” ’ ”

²⁵Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “When I gather the house of Israel from the peoples to which they were scattered about in them, and I show myself holy in^j them before the eyes of the nations, then they will live on their soil, which I gave to my servant Jacob. ²⁶And they will live on it in safety, and they will build houses, and they will plant vineyards, and they will live in safety when I execute my judgments on all those who despise them from all around them,^k and then they will know that I am Yahweh their God.”