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Ezekiel 28

28 This word from the Eternal came to me: 2 "‘Son of man, give the prince of Tyre this message from the Lord the Eternal:

‘Since you are proud of heart,

thinking that you are a god,

in a god’s seat, by the deep,

when you are no god but a man,

though you deem yourself a god--

ay, wiser than a Daniel,

no clear-eyed sage like yourself!--

your wisdom and your shrewdness

winning you wealth,

pouring gold and silver

into your treasury;

since by your great wisdom and your trade

you have enriched yourself,

and wealth has made you proud of heart,

then here is the Lord Eternal’s sentence:

since you think yourself a god,

I will set foreigners on you,

most ruthless of races,

to draw their swords against your beautiful wisdom,

to stain your splendour,

to thrust you down into the underworld.

A violent death shall you die,

there by the deep.

Will you still say, before your murderer,

“I am a god”?

To your murderer

you are no god but mortal!

At the hand of foreigners

you shall die a cruel death;

for I have said it--so runs the Lord the Eternal’s sentence.’ ” 11 This word from the Eternal also came to me: 12 “Son of man, raise a dirge over the king of Tyre, and give him this message from the Lord the Eternal--'You were the very father of wisdom, the perfection of beauty; 13 you lived in Eden, the garden of God; you were adorned with every jewel, the jasper, the chrysolite, the sardonyx, the topaz, the beryl, the onyx, the sapphire, the garnet, and the rock-crystal, their setting wrought in gold . . . 14 On the day you were created, I placed you beside the kherubs on the sacred hill of God; you walked amid the flashing thunderstones. 15 From the day you were created, you lived a perfect life, till you were discovered doing wrong; 16 rich traffic made you rife with violence, and you sinned. Hence I have expelled you as a profane thing from the hill of God, and the kherub has driven you to your ruin away from the flashing thunderstones. 17 Your beauty made you proud of heart, your brilliance depraved your wisdom; so I have cast you down, abandoning you for kings to feast their eyes on you. 18 By the greatness of your guilt, by the crimes of your commerce, you have profaned your sacred position; therefore have I made you set fire to yourself, with flames that consume you, and reduced you to ashes on earth in the sight of all who behold you. 19 All who know you among the nations shall be appalled at you--your fate is awful, there is no future for you.’ ”

20 This word from the Eternal also came to me: 21 “Son of man, turn towards Sidon and tell her 22 this prophetic word from the Lord the Eternal:—-

‘O Sidon, I am against you,

I will show what I am as I deal with you!’ When I inflict punishment on her and show what I am by my dealings with her, it will teach her that I am the Eternal.

‘For I will send pestilence into her,

bloodshed into her streets,

till the wounded fall thick within her

by the sword striking her on every side’--

to teach them that I am the Lord the Eternal.

24 Of all the malignants who surround Israel, none shall fret them like a briar or pierce them like a thorn any longer; they shall learn that I am the Lord the Eternal. 25 The Lord the Eternal proclaims: When I have gathered the community of Israel from the races where they have been scattered, when I show the nations who I am by my dealings with Israel, then shall they live in their own land, the land I assigned to my servant Jacob; 26 they shall live in it securely, building houses and planting vineyards; securely shall they live, when I have inflicted punishment on all the malignants who surround them--to teach them that I am the Eternal their God.”

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