Ezekiel 28:6
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New International Version (©2011)
"'Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: "'Because you think you are wise, as wise as a god,

New Living Translation (©2007)
"Therefore, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Because you think you are as wise as a god,

English Standard Version (©2001)
therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you make your heart like the heart of a god,

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, 'Because you have made your heart Like the heart of God,

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God;

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Because you regard your heart as that of a god,

International Standard Version (©2012)
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: "Because you've made your heart like that of God

NET Bible (©2006)
"'Therefore this is what the sovereign LORD says: Because you think you are godlike,

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
" 'This is what the Almighty LORD says: You think you are wise like God.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Because you have set your heart as the heart of God;

American King James Version
Therefore thus said the Lord GOD; Because you have set your heart as the heart of God;

American Standard Version
therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because thou hast set thy heart as the heart of God,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Therefore, thus saith the Lord God: Because thy heart is lifted up as the heart of God:

Darby Bible Translation
Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because thou hast set thy heart as the heart of God,

English Revised Version
therefore thus saith the Lord GOD: Because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God;

Webster's Bible Translation
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast set thy heart as the heart of God;

World English Bible
therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have set your heart as the heart of God,

Young's Literal Translation
Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because of thy giving out thy heart as the heart of God,

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.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Therefore thus saith the Lord God,.... Now follows the punishment threatened, because of all this pride, haughtiness, and blasphemy:

because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God; seeking thine own glory; setting up thyself above all others; assuming that to thyself which belongs to God; and making thyself equal to him, or showing thyself as if thou wast God; See Gill on Ezekiel 28:2.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

6. Because, &c.—resumptive of Eze 28:2.

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Prophecy against the King of Tyre
…5By your great wisdom and by your traffic have you increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches: 6Therefore thus said the Lord GOD; Because you have set your heart as the heart of God; 7Behold, therefore I will bring strangers on you, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom, and they shall defile your brightness. …

Exodus 9:17 You still set yourself against my people and will not let them go.
Ezekiel 28:2 "Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre, 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: "'In the pride of your heart you say, "I am a god; I sit on the throne of a god in the heart of the seas." But you are a mere mortal and not a god, though you think you are as wise as a god.