Ezekiel 28
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A Prophecy Against the King of Tyre
1The word of the Lord came again to me, saying: 2#Eze 28:9; 2Th 2:4; Isa 31:3Son of man, say to the leader 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 gods
in the midst of the seas,”
yet you are a man, and not God,
though you set your heart as the heart of God.
3#Da 1:20; 5:11–12 You are wiser than Daniel;
there is no secret that is a match for you.
4With your wisdom and with your understanding,
you have obtained riches for yourself,
and have obtained gold and silver
into your treasuries;
5#Ps 62:10; 52:7 by your great wisdom, by your trade,
you have increased your riches,
and your heart is lifted up
because of your riches.
6#Eze 28:2; Ex 9:17Therefore thus says the Lord God:
Because you have set your heart
as the heart of God,
7#Eze 31:12; 30:11 therefore, I will bring strangers upon you,
the most cruel of the nations;
and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom,
and defile your brightness.
8#Eze 27:26–27; 27:34 They shall bring you down to the pit,
and you shall die the death of those who are slain
in the midst of the seas.
9#Eze 28:2 Will you yet say before him who slays you,
“I am a god,”
although you are a man and not God,
in the hands of those who wound you?
10#Eze 31:18; 32:19 You shall die the death of the uncircumcised
by the hand of strangers;
for I have spoken! says the Lord God.
A Lament for the King of Tyre
11Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying: 12#Eze 19:1; 26:17Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre and say to him, Thus says the Lord God:
You had the seal of perfection,
full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.
13#Eze 27:16; 31:8–9 You were in Eden,
the garden of God;
every precious stone was your 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 your settings and sockets was in you;
on the day that you were created, they were prepared.
14#Ex 25:17–20; 30:26 You were the anointed cherub that covers,
and I set you there;
you were upon the holy mountain of God;
you walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.
15#Eze 27:3–4; 28:3–6 You were perfect in your ways
from the day that you were created,
until iniquity was found in you.
16#Hab 2:17; Ge 3:24 By the multitude of your merchandise,
you were filled with violence in your midst,
and you sinned;
therefore I have cast you as profane out of the mountain of God;
and I have destroyed you, O covering cherub,
from the midst of the stones of fire.
17#Eze 28:2; 28:5 Your heart was lifted up
because of your beauty;
you have corrupted your wisdom
by reason of your brightness;
I cast you to the ground,
I lay you before kings, that they may see you.
18#Mal 4:3; Am 1:9–10 You have defiled your sanctuaries
by the multitude of your iniquities, by the iniquity of your trade;
therefore I have brought fire out from your midst;
it has devoured you,
and I have turned you to ashes upon the earth
in the sight of all those who see you.
19#Eze 26:21 All those who know you among the people
are astonished at you;
you are a terror,
and you shall cease to be forever.
A Prophecy Against Sidon
20Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying: 21#Eze 6:2; Ge 10:15Son of man, set your face toward Sidon and prophesy against her 22#Eze 39:13; Ex 14:4and say, Thus says the Lord God:
I am against you, O Sidon;
and I will be glorified in your midst;
and they shall know that I am the Lord,
when I execute judgments in her
and display My holiness in her.
23#Eze 38:22 For I will send pestilence into her,
and blood into her streets;
and the wounded shall fall in her midst
by the sword upon her on every side;
and they shall know that I am the Lord.
24#Nu 33:55; Jos 23:13There shall be no more a pricking brier to the house of Israel, nor any painful thorn among all who are around them, who despised them. Then they shall know that I am the Lord God.
The Future Blessing for Israel
25#Ps 106:47; Jer 23:8Thus says the Lord God: When I gather the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered and display My holiness in them in the sight of the nations, then they shall dwell in their land that I have given to My servant Jacob. 26#Eze 28:22; 28:24They shall dwell safely in it and shall build houses and plant vineyards and dwell securely when I execute judgments on all those around them who despise them. Then they shall know that I am the Lord their God.
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