Ezekiel 28:1-13 ▼

1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying:

2 Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyre: Thus saith the Lord GOD: Because thy heart is lifted up, And thou hast said: I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, In the heart of the seas; Yet thou art man, and not God, Though thou didst set thy heart as the heart of God--

3 Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel! There is no secret that they can hide from thee!

4 By thy wisdom and by thy discernment Thou hast gotten thee riches, And hast gotten gold and silver Into thy treasures;

5 In thy great wisdom by thy traffic Hast thou increased thy riches, And thy heart is lifted up because of thy riches--

6 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD: Because thou hast set thy heart As the heart of God;

7 Therefore, behold, I will bring strangers upon thee, The terrible of the nations; And they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, And they shall defile thy brightness.

8 They shall bring thee down to the pit; And thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain, In the heart of the seas.

9 Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee: I am God? But thou art man, and not God, In the hand of them that defile thee.

10 Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised By the hand of strangers; For I have spoken, saith the Lord GOD.'

11 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying:

12 Son of man, take up a lamentation for the king of Tyre, and say unto him: Thus saith the Lord GOD: Thou seal most accurate, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty,

13 thou wast in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the carnelian, the topaz, and the emerald, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the carbuncle, and the smaragd, and gold; the workmanship of thy settings and of thy sockets was in thee, in the day that thou wast created they were prepared.