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Ezekiel 28

¹The word of YHWH came again unto me, saying, ²Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyre, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because your heare is lifted up, and you hast said, I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet you are man, and not God, though you didst set your heare as the heare of God;- ³behold, you are wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that is hidden from thee; ⁴by your wisdom and by yours understanding you hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into your treasures; ⁵by your great wisdom [and] by your traffic hast you increased thy riches, and your heare is lifted up because of your riches;- ⁶therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because you hast set your heart as the heare of God, ⁷therefore, behold, I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations; and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness. ⁸They shall bring thee down to the pit; and thou shall die the death of them that are slain, in the heare of the seas. ⁹Wilt you yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but you are man, and not God, in the hand of him that woundeth thee. ¹⁰Thou shall die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord Jehovah. ¹¹Moreover the word of YHWH came unto me, saying, ¹²Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. ¹³Thou wast in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was your covering, the sardius, the topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of your tabrets and of your pipes was in thee; in the day that you wast created they were prepared. ¹⁴Thou wast the anointed cherub that covereth: and I set thee, [so that] you wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. ¹⁵Thou wast perfect in your ways from the day that you wast created, till unrighteousness was found in thee. ¹⁶By the abundance of thy traffic they filled the midst of thee with violence, and you hast sinned: therefore have I cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God; and I have destroyed thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. ¹⁷Thy heare was lifted up because of thy beauty; you hast corrupted your wisdom by reason of your brightness: I have cast thee to the ground; I have laid thee before kings, that they may behold thee. ¹⁸By the multitude of yours iniquities, in the unrighteousness of your traffic, you hast profaned your sanctuaries; therefore have I brought forth a fire from the midst of thee; it hath devoured thee, and I have turned thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee. ¹⁹All they that know thee among the peoples shall be astonished at thee: you are become a terror, and you shall nevermore have any being. ²⁰And the word of YHWH came unto me, saying, ²¹Son of man, set your face toward Sidon, and prophesy against it, ²²and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I am against thee, O Sidon; and I will be glorified in the midst of thee; and they shall know that I am Jehovah, when I shall have executed judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her. ²³For I will send pestilence into her, and blood into her streets; and the wounded shall fall in the midst of her, with the sword upon her on every side; and they shall know that I am Jehovah. ²⁴And there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the house of Israel, nor a hurting thorn of any that are round about them, that did despite unto them; and they shall know that I am the Lord Jehovah. ²⁵Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the nations, then shall they dwell in their own land which I gave to my servant Jacob. ²⁶And they shall dwell securely therein; yea, they shall build houses, and plant vineyards, and shall dwell securely, when I have executed judgments upon all those that do them despite round about them; and they shall know that I am YHWH their God.

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