Ezekiel 28:1–9
1The LORD’s word came again to me, saying,↗
2“Son of man, tell the prince of Tyre, ‘The Lord GOD says: “Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, ‘I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the middle of the seas;’ yet you are man, and no god, though you set your heart as the heart of a god—↗
3behold, you are wiser than Daniel. There is no secret that is hidden from you.↗
4By your wisdom and by your understanding you have gotten yourself riches, and have gotten gold and silver into your treasuries.↗
5By your great wisdom and by your trading you have increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches—”↗
6“‘therefore the Lord GOD says: “Because you have set your heart as the heart of God,↗
7therefore, behold, I will bring strangers on you, the terrible of the nations. They will draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom. They will defile your brightness.↗
8They will bring you down to the pit. You will die the death of those who are slain in the heart of the seas.↗
9Will you yet say before him who kills you, ‘I am God’? But you are man, and not God, in the hand of him who wounds you.↗
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