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Ezekiel 28:12–19

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12Mortal, raise a lamentation over the king of Tyre, and say to him: Thus says the Lord God:

You were the signet of perfection,f

full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.*

13You were in Eden, the garden of God;

every precious stone was your covering,

carnelian, chrysolite, and moonstone,

beryl, onyx, and jasper,

sapphire,g turquoise, and emerald;

and worked in gold were your settings

and your engravings.h

On the day that you were created

they were prepared.*

14You were a cherub;i

I placed you on the holy mountain of God;

you walked among the stones of fire.*

15You were blameless in your ways

from the day that you were created,

until iniquity was found in you.*

16In the abundance of your trade

you were filled with violence, and you sinned,

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

and I drove you out, O guardian cherub,

from among the stones of fire.*

17Your heart was proud because of your beauty;

you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor.

I cast you to the ground;

I exposed you before kings,

to feast their eyes on you.*

18By the multitude of your iniquities,

in the unrighteousness of your trade,

you profaned your sanctuaries.

So I brought out fire from within you;

it consumed you,

and I turned you to ashes on the earth

in the sight of all who saw you.*

19All who know you among the peoples

are appalled at you;

you have come to a dreadful end

and shall be no more forever.*

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Footnotes

  1. fMeaning of Heb uncertain
  2. gOr lapis lazuli
  3. hMeaning of Heb uncertain
  4. iGk: Heb adds anointed guardian

Cross references

  1. *v 3; Ezek 27:2, 3
  2. *Ezek 31:8, 9; 36:35
  3. *v 16; Ex 25:20; Ezek 20:40; Rev 18:16
  4. *Isa 14:12; Ezek 27:3, 4
  5. *v 14; Gen 3:24; Ezek 8:17; 27.12ff
  6. *vv 2, 5; Ezek 26:16; 27:3, 4; 31:10
  7. *v 16; Am 1:9, 10; Mal 4:3
  8. *Jer 51:64; Ezek 26:21; 27:36