28:2 “Human being, tell the prince of Tzor that Adonai Elohim says: ‘Because you are so proud and have said, “I am a god; I sit on the throne of God, surrounded by the sea”; yet you are a man, not God, even though you think that you think like God.
28:3 Sure, you are wiser than Dani’el! No secret can be hidden from you!
28:4 By your wisdom and discernment you have acquired wealth, you have gathered gold and silver into your treasuries.
28:5 By your great skill in trading you have increased your wealth, and it is because of your wealth that you have become so proud.
28:6 “Therefore Adonai Elohim says, ‘Because you think that you think like God,
28:7 I will bring foreigners against you, the most barbarous of the nations, to draw their swords against your fine wisdom and defile your splendor.
28:8 They will lower you into the pit to die a violent death surrounded by the sea.
28:9 Will you still say, “I am God,” to them who are about to kill you? You are a man, you are not God, in the hands of those who defile you.
28:10 You will die the deaths of the uncircumcised at the hands of foreigners. For I have spoken,’ says Adonai Elohim.”
28:12 “Human being, raise a lament for the king of Tzor, and tell him that Adonai Elohim says: ‘You put the seal on perfection; you were full of wisdom and perfect in beauty;
28:13 you were in ‘Eden, the garden of God; covered with all kinds of precious stones — carnelians, topaz, diamonds, beryl, onyx, jasper, sapphires, green feldspar, emeralds; your pendants and jewels were made of gold, prepared the day you were created.
28:14 You were a keruv, protecting a large region; I placed you on God’s holy mountain. You walked back and forth among stones of fire.
28:15 You were perfect in your ways from the day you were created, until unrighteousness was found in you.
28:16 “‘When your commerce grew, you became filled with violence; and in this way you sinned. Therefore I have thrown you out, defiled, from the mountain of God; I have destroyed you, protecting keruv, from among the stones of fire.
28:17 Your heart grew proud because of your beauty, you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor. But I have thrown you on the ground; before kings I have made you a spectacle.
28:18 By your many crimes in dishonest trading, you have profaned your sanctuaries; therefore I brought forth fire from within you, and it has devoured you; I reduced you into ashes on the ground in the sight of all who can see you.
28:19 All who know you among the peoples will be aghast at you. You are an object of terror, and you will cease to exist.’”
28:21 “Human being, turn your face toward Tzidon, and prophesy against it.
28:22 Say that Adonai Elohim says: ‘I am against you, Tzidon; but I will be glorified in you. They will know that I am Adonai, once I execute judgments in her and show my holiness in her.
28:23 For I will send plagues into her, and blood will flow in her streets; attacked from all sides by the sword, the wounded will fall within her. Then they will know that I am Adonai.
28:24 “‘The house of Isra’el will no longer have a briar pricking away at them, no longer will any of its contemptuous neighbors be a thorn to stab them. Then they will know that I am Adonai Elohim.’
28:25 “Adonai Elohim says, ‘Once I have gathered the house of Isra’el from the peoples among whom they are scattered, once I have shown my holiness in them as the Goyim watch, then they will live in their own land, which I gave to my servant Ya‘akov.
28:26 They will have security when they live there, building houses and planting vineyards; yes, they will live in safety, once I have executed judgments against all their contemptuous neighbors. Then they will know that I am Adonai their God.’”
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