Ezekiel 28:1-19

Ezekiel 28:1-19

[1] The word  of the LORD  came again unto me, saying,  [2] Son  of man,  say  unto the prince  of Tyrus,  Thus saith  the Lord  GOD;  Because thine heart  is lifted up,  and thou hast said,  I am a God,  I sit  in the seat  of God,  in the midst  of the seas;  yet thou art a man,  and not God,  though thou set  thine heart  of God:  [3] Behold, thou art wiser  than Daniel;  there is no secret  that they can hide  from thee: [4] With thy wisdom  and with thine understanding  thou hast gotten  thee riches,  and hast gotten  gold  and silver  into thy treasures:  [5] By thy great  wisdom  and by thy traffick  hast thou increased  thy riches,  and thine heart  is lifted up  because of thy riches:  [6] Therefore thus saith  the Lord  GOD;  Because thou hast set  thine heart  as the heart  of God;  [7] Behold, therefore I will bring  strangers  upon thee, the terrible  of the nations:  and they shall draw  their swords  against the beauty  of thy wisdom,  and they shall defile  thy brightness.  [8] They shall bring thee down  to the pit,  and thou shalt die  the deaths  of them that are slain  in the midst  of the seas.  [9] Wilt thou yet  before  him that slayeth  thee, I am God?  but thou shalt be a man,  and no God,  in the hand  of him that slayeth  [10] Thou shalt die  the deaths  of the uncircumcised  by the hand  of strangers:  for I have spoken  it, saith  the Lord  GOD.  [11] Moreover the word  of the LORD  came unto me, saying,  [12] Son  of man,  take up  a lamentation  upon the king  of Tyrus,  and say  the Lord  GOD;  Thou sealest up  the sum,  full  of wisdom,  and perfect  in beauty.  [13] Thou hast been in Eden  the garden  of God;  every precious  stone  was thy covering,  the sardius,  topaz,  and the diamond,  the beryl,  the onyx,  and the jasper,  the sapphire,  the emerald,  and the carbuncle,  and gold:  the workmanship  of thy tabrets  and of thy pipes  was prepared  in thee in the day  that thou wast created.  [14] Thou art the anointed  cherub  that covereth;  and I have set  thee so: thou wast upon the holy  mountain  of God;  thou hast walked up and down  in the midst  of the stones  of fire.  [15] Thou wast perfect  in thy ways  from the day  that thou wast created,  till iniquity  was found  in thee. [16] By the multitude  of thy merchandise  they have filled  the midst  of thee with violence,  and thou hast sinned:  therefore I will cast thee as profane  out of the mountain  of God:  and I will destroy  thee, O covering  cherub,  from the midst  of the stones  of fire.  [17] Thine heart  was lifted up  because of thy beauty,  thou hast corrupted  thy wisdom  by reason of  thy brightness:  I will cast  thee to the ground,  I will lay  thee before  kings,  that they may behold  thee. [18] Thou hast defiled  thy sanctuaries  by the multitude  of thine iniquities,  by the iniquity  of thy traffick;  therefore will I bring forth  a fire  from the midst  of thee, it shall devour  thee, and I will bring  thee to ashes  upon the earth  in the sight  of all them that behold  [19] All they that know  thee among the people  shall be astonished  at thee: thou shalt be a terror,  and never  shalt thou be any more.