Ezekiel 28:2–9

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