The word
of the Lord came again unto me, saying,
02 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 as the heart of God:
03 Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is
no secret that they can hide from thee:
04 With thy wisdom and with thine understanding
thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten
gold and silver into thy treasures:
05 By thy great wisdom and by thy traffic hast
thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is
lifted up because of thy riches:
06 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because
thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God;
07 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.
08 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.
09 Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth
thee, I am God? but thou shalt be a man, and no
God, in the hand of him that slayeth thee.
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 unto him, Thus saith 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.
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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 traffic; 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 thee.
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.
20 Again the word of the Lord came unto me,
saying,
21 Son of man, set thy face against Zidon, and
prophesy against it,
22 And say, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am
against thee, O Zidon; and I will be glorified in
the midst of thee: and they shall know that I am
the Lord, when I shall have executed judgments in
her, and shall be sanctified in her.
23 For I will send into her pestilence, and blood
into her streets; and the wounded shall be judged
in the midst of her by the sword upon her on
every side; and they shall know that I am the
Lord.
24 And there shall be no more a pricking brier
unto the house of Israel, nor any grieving thorn
of all that are round about them, that despised
them; and they shall know that I am the Lord God.
25 Thus saith the Lord God; When I shall have
gathered the house of Israel from the people
among whom they are scattered, and shall be
sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen,
then shall they dwell in their land that I have
given to my servant Jacob.
26 And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall
build houses, and plant vineyards; yea, they
shall dwell with confidence, when I have executed
judgments upon all those that despise them round
about them; and they shall know that I am the
Lord their God.
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