Ezekiel 28

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1 And the word of the Lord came to me:
2 Son of man! Tell the commander in Tire: Thus says the Lord Jehovah: Because your heart is lifted up, and you say, "I am God, I sit on the seat of God, in the heart of the seas," and being a man, and not God, set your mind on a par with the mind of God , -
3 Behold, you are wiser than Daniel, there is no mystery hidden from you;
4 By thy wisdom and thy mind, thou hast made riches for yourself, and gathered up gold and silver into thy treasuries;
5 By thy great wisdom, through thy trading, thou hast multiplied thy riches, and thine own understanding is lifted up in thy riches,
6th Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because thou hast set thy mind on a par with the mind of God,
7th Behold, I will bring upon thee foreigners, the fiercest of the heathen, and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile your brightness;
8 They will bring you down to the grave, and you will die in the heart of the seas with the death of the dead.
9 Will you then say to your murderer: "I am God," whereas in the hand of the one who strikes you you will be a man, not a god?
10 You will die at the hands of strangers by the death of the uncircumcised; For I have said this, says the Lord God.

eleven And the word of the Lord came to me:
12 Son of man! Cry for the king of Tire, and say to him, Thus says the Lord Jehovah: You are the seal of perfection, the fullness of wisdom, and the crown of beauty.
13 You were in Eden, in the garden of God; Your clothes were adorned with all manner of precious stones; Ruby, topaz and diamond, chrysolite, onyx, jasper, sapphire, carbuncle and emerald and gold, everything, skillfully seated in your nest and strung on you, was prepared on the day of your creation.
14 You were the anointed cherub that overshadowed, and I set you up for it; You were on the holy mountain of God, walked among the flinty stones.
15 You have been perfect in your ways since the day you were created, until iniquity was found in you.
16 Because of the vastness of your trade, your inner is filled with iniquity, and you have sinned; And I cast you down like the unclean from the mount of God, drove you out, the cherub that casteth the shining, out of the midst of the flaming stones.
17th Your heart was lifted up in your beauty, from your vanity you destroyed your wisdom; Therefore, I will bring you down to the earth, before the kings I will give you to shame.
18 By the multitude of your iniquities in your unrighteous trade, you have defiled your sanctuaries; And I will draw a fire from the midst of you, which will devour you: and I will turn you into ashes on the earth before the eyes of all who see you.
19 Everyone who knows you among the nations will be amazed at you; You will become a terror, and you will never be.

20 And the word of the Lord came to me:
21 Son of man! Turn thy face toward Sidon, and prophesy against him,
22 And say, Behold, I am against thee, O Zidon, and I will be glorified in the midst of thee, and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I execute judgment against him, and I will sanctify him in him;
23 And I will send a pestilence and bloodshed upon its streets, and they shall fall in the midst of them, slain by the sword devouring it from all sides; And they shall know that I am the LORD.
24 And he will no longer be for the house of Israel a prickly thorn and a painful wolf more than all the neighbors who are evil to him, and they will know that I am the Lord God.
25 Thus saith the Lord God: When I will gather the house of Israel from the nations among which they are scattered, and I will sanctify in them the holiness before the eyes of the tribes, and they shall dwell in their land which I gave to my servant Jacob:
26th Then they shall dwell in it safely, and they shall build houses, and plant vineyards, and they shall dwell in safety: for I will execute judgment upon all them that feare them around them, and they shall know that I am the Lord their God.

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