28:2 Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre: Thus says the Lord God: Because you are haughty of heart, you say, “I am a god! I sit on a god’s throne in the heart of the sea!” But you are a man, not a god; yet you pretend you are a god at heart!
28:3 Oh yes, you are wiser than Daniel, nothing secret is too obscure for you!
28:4 By your wisdom and intelligence you made yourself rich, filling your treasuries with gold and silver.
28:5 Through your great wisdom in trading you heaped up riches for yourself— your heart is haughty because of your riches.
28:6 Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because you pretend you are a god at heart,
28:7 Therefore, I will bring against you strangers, the most bloodthirsty of nations. They shall draw their swords against your splendid wisdom, and violate your radiance.
28:8 They shall thrust you down into the pit: you shall die a violent death in the heart of the sea.
28:9 Then, face to face with your killers, will you still say, “I am a god”? No, you are a man, not a god, handed over to those who slay you.
28:10 You shall die the death of the uncircumcised handed over to strangers, for I have spoken—oracle of the Lord God.
28:12 Son of man, raise a lament over the king of Tyre, and say to him: Thus says the Lord God: You were a seal of perfection, full of wisdom, perfect in beauty.
28:13 In Eden, the garden of God, you lived; precious stones of every kind were your covering: Carnelian, topaz, and beryl, chrysolite, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, garnet, and emerald. Their mounts and settings were wrought in gold, fashioned for you the day you were created.
28:14 With a cherub I placed you; I put you on the holy mountain of God, where you walked among fiery stones.
28:15 Blameless were you in your ways from the day you were created, Until evil was found in you.
28:16 Your commerce was full of lawlessness, and you sinned. Therefore I banished you from the mountain of God; the cherub drove you out from among the fiery stones.
28:17 Your heart had grown haughty because of your beauty; You corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor. I cast you to the ground, I made you a spectacle in the sight of kings.
28:18 Because of the enormity of your guilt, and the perversity of your trade, you defiled your sanctuary. I brought fire out of you; it devoured you; I made you ashes on the ground in the eyes of all who see you.
28:19 All the nations who knew you are appalled on account of you; You have become a horror, never to be again.
28:21 Son of man, turn your face toward Sidon and prophesy against it.
28:22 Thus says the Lord God: Watch out! I am against you, Sidon; I will win glory for myself in your midst. They shall know that I am the Lord, when I deliver judgment upon it and manifest my holiness in it.
28:23 I will send disease into it; blood will fill its streets, Within it shall fall those slain by the sword raised against it on every side. Then they shall know that I am the Lord.
28:24 No longer will there be a thorn that tears or a brier that scratches for the house of Israel From the surrounding neighbors who despise them; thus they shall know that I am the Lord.
28:25 Thus says the Lord God: When I gather the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered, and I manifest my holiness through them in the sight of the nations, then they shall live on the land I gave my servant Jacob.
28:26 They shall dwell on it securely, building houses and planting vineyards. They shall dwell securely while I execute judgment on all their neighbors who treated them with contempt; then they shall know that I, the Lord, am their God.
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