 1 The Word of the Lord came again to me saying, 2 Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre. Thus says the Lord God: Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas. Yet you are a man and not God, though you set your heart as the heart of gods; 3 Behold, you are wiser than Daniel. All secret things are not hidden from you. 4 With your wisdom and with your understanding you have made riches for yourselves, and have worked gold and silver into your treasuries. 5 By your great wisdom and by your trade you have multiplied your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches. 6 Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because you have set your heart as the heart of gods, 7 therefore I will bring awesome strangers of the nations. They will draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom to defile your brightness. 8 They will bring you down to the pit and you will die the deaths of those slain in the heart of the seas. 9 Will you yet say before him who kills you, I am of the gods? But you are a man and not God in the hand of him who kills you. 10 You will die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers. For I have spoken, says the Lord God. 11 The Word of the Lord came to me saying, 12 Son of man, lift up a lament over the king of Tyre and say to him, Thus says the Lord God: You seal the measure full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. 13 You have been in Eden the garden of God. Every precious stone was your covering, the ruby, topaz, diamond, beryl, onyx, jasper, sapphire, turquoise, emerald, and gold. The workmanship of your tambourines and of your flutes was prepared for you in the day that you were created. 14 You were the anointed cherub that covers and I had put you in the holy height of God where you were. You have walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. 15 You were perfect in your ways from the day that you were created, until iniquity was found in you. 16 By the multitude of your goods they have filled your midst with violence, and you have sinned. So I cast you profaned from the height of God, and I destroy you, O covering cherub, from among the stones of fire. 17 Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty. You have spoiled your wisdom because of your brightness. I will cast you to the ground; I will put you before kings, that they may behold you. 18 By the host of your iniquities, by the iniquity of your trade, you have profaned your holy places. So I brought a fire from your midst. It shall devour you, and I will give you for ashes on the earth, before the eyes of all who see you. 19 All who know you among the people shall be astonished at you. You shall be terrors, and you will not be forever. 20 The Word of the Lord came to me saying, 21 Son of man, set your face against Sidon and prophesy against it. 22 Say, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against you O Sidon and I will be glorified in your midst. Then they will know that I am the Lord when I have executed judgments in her and have revealed my holiness in her. 23 For I will send a plague into her and blood into her streets. The wounded will fall in her midst by the sword on her on every side. Then they will know that I am the Lord. 24 There will not be a pricking brier or a painful thorn to the house of Israel any more from all who surround them, those who hate them. Then they will know that I am the Lord God. 25 Thus says the Lord God: When I have gathered the house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered, and have been sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen nations, then they will live in their land that I have given to my servant Jacob. 26 They will live safely in it and will build houses and plant vineyards. Yes, they will live safely when I have executed judgments on all who despise them all around them. Then they will know that I am the Lord their God.
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