Ezekiel 28

1Yahweh’s word came again to me, saying,

2“Son of man, tell the prince of Tyre, ‘The Lord Yahweh 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—Cross-references: Gen 3:5 · Deut 8:14 · 2Chr 26:16 · Ps 9:20 · Ps 72:6 · Ps 82:6 · +20 more

3behold, you are wiser than Daniel. There is no secret that is hidden from you.Cross-references: 1Ki 4:29 · 1Ki 10:3 · Job 15:8 · Ps 25:14 · Dan 1:20 · Dan 2:22 · +4 more

4By your wisdom and by your understanding you have gotten yourself riches, and have gotten gold and silver into your treasuries.Cross-references: Deut 8:17 · Prov 18:11 · Prov 23:4 · Eccl 9:11 · Ezek 29:3 · Hab 1:16 · +1 more

5By your great wisdom and by your trading you have increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches—”Cross-references: Deut 6:11 · Deut 8:13 · 2Chr 25:19 · 2Chr 32:23 · Job 31:24 · Ps 52:7 · +20 more

6“‘therefore the Lord Yahweh says: “Because you have set your heart as the heart of God,Cross-references: Ex 9:17 · Job 9:4 · Job 40:9 · Ezek 28:2 · 1Cor 10:22 · 2Thess 2:4 · +1 more

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.Cross-references: Deut 28:49 · Isa 23:8 · Isa 25:3 · Ezek 26:7 · Ezek 30:11 · Ezek 31:12 · +4 more

8They will bring you down to the pit. You will die the death of those who are slain in the heart of the seas.Cross-references: Job 17:16 · Job 33:18 · Job 33:28 · Ps 28:1 · Ps 30:9 · Ps 55:15 · +7 more

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.Cross-references: Ps 82:7 · Isa 31:3 · Ezek 28:2 · Dan 4:31 · Dan 5:23 · Acts 12:22

10You will die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers; for I have spoken it,” says the Lord Yahweh.’”Cross-references: Lev 26:41 · 1Sam 17:26 · 1Sam 17:36 · Jer 6:10 · Jer 9:25 · Jer 25:9 · +11 more

11Moreover Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

12“Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre, and tell him, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “You were the seal of full measure, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.Cross-references: 2Chr 35:25 · Prov 21:30 · Isa 10:13 · Isa 14:4 · Jer 9:17 · Jer 9:23 · +17 more

13You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, emerald, chrysolite, onyx, jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and beryl. Gold work of tambourines and of pipes was in you. They were prepared in the day that you were created.Cross-references: Gen 2:8 · Gen 2:11 · Gen 3:23 · Gen 13:10 · Ex 28:17 · Ex 39:10 · +16 more

14You were the anointed cherub who covers. Then I set you up on the holy mountain of God. You have walked up and down in the middle of the stones of fire.Cross-references: Ex 9:16 · Ex 25:17 · Ex 30:26 · Ex 40:9 · Ps 75:5 · Isa 10:6 · +14 more

15You were perfect in your ways from the day that you were created, until unrighteousness was found in you.Cross-references: Gen 1:26 · Gen 1:31 · Gen 6:5 · Prov 14:34 · Eccl 7:29 · Isa 14:12 · +7 more

16By the abundance of your commerce, your insides were filled with violence, and you have sinned. Therefore I have cast you as profane out of God’s mountain. I have destroyed you, covering cherub, from the middle of the stones of fire.Cross-references: Gen 3:24 · Gen 6:11 · Lev 18:24 · Isa 22:19 · Isa 23:9 · Isa 23:17 · +16 more

17Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty. You have corrupted your wisdom by reason of your splendor. I have cast you to the ground. I have laid you before kings, that they may see you.Cross-references: Job 40:11 · Ps 73:18 · Ps 147:6 · Prov 11:2 · Prov 16:18 · Isa 14:9 · +14 more

18By the multitude of your iniquities, in the unrighteousness of your commerce, you have profaned your sanctuaries. Therefore I have brought out a fire from the middle of you. It has devoured you. I have turned you to ashes on the earth in the sight of all those who see you.Cross-references: Judg 9:15 · Judg 9:20 · Ezek 5:4 · Ezek 28:2 · Ezek 28:13 · Ezek 28:16 · +8 more

19All those who know you among the peoples will be astonished at you. You have become a terror, and you will exist no more.”’”Cross-references: Ps 76:12 · Isa 14:16 · Jer 51:63 · Ezek 26:14 · Ezek 26:21 · Ezek 27:35 · +3 more

20Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

21“Son of man, set your face toward Sidon, and prophesy against it,Cross-references: Gen 10:15 · Isa 23:2 · Isa 23:12 · Jer 25:22 · Jer 27:3 · Jer 47:4 · +7 more

22and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Behold, I am against you, Sidon. I will be glorified among you. Then they will know that I am Yahweh, when I have executed judgments in her, and am sanctified in her.Cross-references: Ex 9:16 · Ex 14:4 · Ex 14:17 · Ex 15:21 · Lev 10:3 · 1Sam 17:45 · +23 more

23For I will send pestilence into her, and blood into her streets. The wounded will fall within her, with the sword on her on every side. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.Cross-references: Jer 15:2 · Ezek 5:12 · Ezek 25:7 · Ezek 25:11 · Ezek 25:17 · Ezek 26:6 · +1 more

24“‘“There will no longer be a pricking brier to the house of Israel, nor a hurting thorn of any that are around them that scorned them. Then they will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.”Cross-references: Num 33:55 · Josh 23:13 · Judg 2:3 · Isa 35:9 · Isa 55:13 · Jer 12:14 · +8 more

25“‘The Lord Yahweh says: “When I have gathered the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered, and am shown as holy among them in the sight of the nations, then they will dwell in their own land which I gave to my servant Jacob.Cross-references: Gen 28:13 · Lev 26:44 · Deut 30:3 · Ps 106:47 · Isa 5:16 · Isa 11:12 · +23 more

26They will dwell in it securely. Yes, they will build houses, plant vineyards, and will dwell securely when I have executed judgments on all those around them who have treated them with contempt. Then they will know that I am Yahweh their God.”’”Cross-references: Ex 29:46 · Lev 25:18 · Deut 12:10 · 1Ki 4:25 · Prov 14:26 · Isa 13:1 · +27 more