Ezekiel 28

1 And there is a word of YHWH to me, saying, 2 “Son of man, say to the leader of Tyre, Thus said Lord YHWH: Because your heart has been high, || And you say: I am a god, || I have inhabited the habitation of God, || In the heart of the seas, || And you are man, and not God, || And you give forth your heart as the heart of God, 3 Behold, you are wiser than Daniel, || No hidden thing have they concealed from you. 4 By your wisdom and by your understanding || You have made wealth for yourself, || And make gold and silver in your treasuries. 5 By the abundance of your wisdom, || Through your merchandise, || You have multiplied your wealth, || And your heart is high through your wealth. 6 Therefore, thus said Lord YHWH: Because of your giving out your heart as the heart of God, 7 Therefore, behold, I am bringing in strangers against you, || The terrible of the nations, || And they have drawn out their swords || Against the beauty of your wisdom, || And they have pierced your brightness. 8 They bring you down to destruction, || You die by the deaths of the wounded, in the heart of the seas. 9 Do you really say, I am God, || Before him who is slaying you? And you are man, and not God, || In the hand of him who is piercing you. 10 You die the deaths of the uncircumcised, || By the hand of strangers, for I have spoken,” || A declaration of Lord YHWH. 11 And there is a word of YHWH to me, saying, 12 “Son of man, lift up a lamentation for the king of Tyre, || And you have said to him, Thus said Lord YHWH: You are sealing up a measurement, || Full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. 13 You have been in Eden, the garden of God, || Every precious stone was your covering, || Ruby, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, || Sapphire, emerald, and carbuncle, and gold, || The workmanship of your tambourines and of your pipes, || In you in the day of your being produced, have been created; 14 And I established you as the anointed, covering cherub, || You have been in the holy mountain of God, || You have walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. 15 You were perfect in your ways, || From the day of your being created, || Until perversity was found in you. 16 By the abundance of your merchandise || They have filled your midst with violence, || And you sin, || And I thrust you from the mountain of God, || And I destroy you, O covering cherub, || From the midst of the stones of fire. 17 Your heart has been high because of your beauty, || You have corrupted your wisdom because of your brightness, || I have cast you to earth, || I have set you before kings, to look on you, 18 From the abundance of your iniquity, || By the perversity of your merchandise, || You have defiled your sanctuaries, || And I bring out fire from your midst, || It has devoured you, || And I make you become ashes on the earth, || In the eyes of all beholding you. 19 All knowing you among the peoples || Have been astonished at you, || You have been terrors, and you are not—to a distant age.” 20 And there is a word of YHWH to me, saying, 21 “Son of man, set your face toward Sidon, and prophesy concerning it; 22 and you have said, Thus said Lord YHWH: Behold, I am against you, O Sidon, || And I have been honored in your midst, || And they have known that I am YHWH, || In My doing judgments in her, || And I have been sanctified in her. 23 And I have sent pestilence into her, || And blood into her out-places, || The wounded has been judged in her midst, || By the sword on her all around, || And they have known that I am YHWH. 24 And there is no more pricking brier and paining thorn || For the house of Israel, || Of all around them—despising them, || And they have known that I am Lord YHWH. 25 Thus said Lord YHWH: 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, 26 And they have dwelt confidently on it, || And built houses, and planted vineyards, || And dwelt confidently—in My doing judgments, || On all those despising them all around, || And they have known that I am their God YHWH!”


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