Ezekiel 28:15
 Ezekiel 28:15 
New International Version (©2011)
You were blameless in your ways from the day you were created till wickedness was found in you.

New Living Translation (©2007)
"You were blameless in all you did from the day you were created until the day evil was found in you.

English Standard Version (©2001)
You were blameless in your ways from the day you were created, till unrighteousness was found in you.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"You were blameless in your ways From the day you were created Until unrighteousness was found in you.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
From the day you were created you were blameless in your ways until wickedness was found in you.

International Standard Version (©2012)
You were blameless in your behavior from the day you were created until wickedness was discovered in you.

NET Bible (©2006)
You were blameless in your behavior from the day you were created, until sin was discovered in you.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Your behavior was perfect from the time you were created, until evil was found in you.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
You were perfect in your ways from the day that you were created, till iniquity was found in you.

American King James Version
You were perfect in your ways from the day that you were created, till iniquity was found in you.

American Standard Version
Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till unrighteousness was found in thee.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day of thy creation, until iniquity was found in thee.

Darby Bible Translation
Thou wast perfect in thy ways, from the day that thou wast created, till unrighteousness was found in thee.

English Revised Version
Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till unrighteousness was found in thee.

Webster's Bible Translation
Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.

World English Bible
You were perfect in your ways from the day that you were created, until unrighteousness was found in you.

Young's Literal Translation
Perfect art thou in thy ways, From the day of thy being produced, Till perversity hath been found in thee.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

28:1-19 Ethbaal, or Ithobal, was the prince or king of Tyre; and being lifted up with excessive pride, he claimed Divine honours. Pride is peculiarly the sin of our fallen nature. Nor can any wisdom, except that which the Lord gives, lead to happiness in this world or in that which is to come. The haughty prince of Tyre thought he was able to protect his people by his own power, and considered himself as equal to the inhabitants of heaven. If it were possible to dwell in the garden of Eden, or even to enter heaven, no solid happiness could be enjoyed without a humble, holy, and spiritual mind. Especially all spiritual pride is of the devil. Those who indulge therein must expect to perish.


Pulpit Commentary

Verse 15. - Thou wast perfect in thy ways. The glory of the King of Tyre was, the prophet goes on to say, conditional. He began his reign in righteousness, but afterwards iniquity was found in him. And the root of that iniquity was the pride of wealth engendered by the greatness of his commerce (Ver. 16). He was no longer like the cherub who guarded the Paradise of God, but like Adam when he was east out from it. Wealth and pride had tempted him to violence and to wrong, and he was no longer an "anointed" or consecrated, but a profaned and desecrated, king. The, "stones of fire," the thunders and lightnings of the Divine Majesty, should no longer protect him.


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created,.... From the time that Tyre became a kingdom, or this king was set over it, everything was wisely conducted, and all things happily succeeded; so when the church of Rome was first formed in the times of the apostles, it was laid on a good foundation; it was set up according to the rule of the word; its bishop or pastor was one of a sound judgment, a good life and conversation, and so continued In succession for a considerable time; these held the true faith and doctrine of Christ, and kept it incorrupt, and lived holy lives:

till iniquity was found in thee; pride, blasphemy against God, and contempt of his people, as well as violence and deceit; all this was found in the king of Tyre in later times: so in the church of Rome, when the man of sin was revealed, there were pride, haughtiness, and ambition, found in it; blasphemy against God and Christ, and the saints: false doctrine, false worship, superstition, and idolatry.


Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

15. perfect—prosperous [Grotius], and having no defect. So Hiram was a sample of the Tyrian monarch in his early days of wisdom and prosperity (1Ki 5:7, &c.).

till iniquity … in thee—Like the primeval man thou hast fallen by abusing God's gifts, and so hast provoked God's wrath.


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A Lament over the King of Tyre
14You are the anointed cherub that covers; and I have set you so: you were on the holy mountain of God; you have walked up and down in the middle of the stones of fire. 15You were perfect in your ways from the day that you were created, till iniquity was found in you. 16By the multitude of your merchandise they have filled the middle of you with violence, and you have sinned: therefore I will cast you as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy you, O covering cherub, from the middle of the stones of fire. …

Ezekiel 27:3 Say to Tyre, situated at the gateway to the sea, merchant of peoples on many coasts, 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: "'You say, Tyre, "I am perfect in beauty."
Ezekiel 27:4 Your domain was on the high seas; your builders brought your beauty to perfection.
Ezekiel 28:3 Are you wiser than Daniel? Is no secret hidden from you?
Ezekiel 28:12 "Son of man, take up a lament concerning the king of Tyre and say to him: 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: "'You were the seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.
Ezekiel 28:17 Your heart became proud on account of your beauty, and you corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor. So I threw you to the earth; I made a spectacle of you before kings.
Ezekiel 28:18 By your many sins and dishonest trade you have desecrated your sanctuaries. So I made a fire come out from you, and it consumed you, and I reduced you to ashes on the ground in the sight of all who were watching.