Ezekiel 28:14–26

¹⁴Thou art an anointed cherub who is covering, And I have set thee in the holy mount, God thou hast been, In the midst of stones of fire thou hast walked up and down. ¹⁵Perfect art thou in thy ways, From the day of thy being produced, Till perversity hath been found in thee. ¹⁶By the abundance of thy merchandise They have filled thy midst with violence, And thou dost sin, And I thrust thee from the mount of God, And I destroy thee, O covering cherub, From the midst of the stones of fire. ¹⁷High hath been thy heart, because of thy beauty, Thou hast corrupted thy wisdom because of thy brightness, On the earth I have cast thee, Before kings I have set thee, to look on thee, ¹⁸From the abundance of thy iniquity, By the perversity of thy traffic, Thou hast polluted thy sanctuaries, And I bring forth fire from thy midst, It hath devoured thee, And I make thee become ashes on the earth, Before the eyes of all beholding thee. ¹⁹All knowing thee among the peoples Have been astonished at thee, Wastes thou hast been, and thou art not—to the age.’

²⁰And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying, ²¹‘Son of man, set thy face unto Zidon, and prophesy concerning it; ²²and thou hast said: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, I am against thee, O Zidon, And I have been honoured in thy midst, And they have known that I am Jehovah, In My doing in her judgments, And I have been sanctified in her. ²³And I have sent into her pestilence, And blood into her out-places, The wounded hath been judged in her midst, By the sword upon her round about, And they have known that I am Jehovah. ²⁴And there is no more to the house of Israel A pricking brier, and paining thorn, Of all round about them—despising them, And they have known that I am the Lord Jehovah. ²⁵Thus said the Lord Jehovah: In My gathering the house of Israel, Out of the peoples among whom they were scattered, I have been sanctified in them, Before the eyes of the nations, And they have dwelt on their ground, That I gave to My servant, to Jacob, ²⁶And they have dwelt on it confidently, And builded houses, and planted vineyards, And dwelt confidently—in My doing judgments, On all those despising them round about, And they have known that I, Jehovah, am their God!’

Chapter 29