Ezekiel 28

International Standard Version

“Because your heart is arrogant,^[b]
    and because you keep saying,
‘I have taken my seat,
    I am a god,
        seated in God’s seat right in the middle^[c] of the sea,’^[d]
and because you’re a man,
    and not a god,
even though you pretend
    that you have a god-like heart…
³ Look! You’re wiser than Daniel, aren’t you?
    No secret is too mysterious for you!
⁴ Your wisdom and understanding
    brought you phenomenal wealth.
You’ve brought gold and silver
    into your treasuries.
⁵ By your great wisdom,
    by your skills in trading
you have amassed wealth for yourself
    and your heart has become arrogant
        because of your wealth.”

⁶ Therefore this is what the Lord God says:

“Because you’ve made your heart
    like that of God
⁷ Therefore, look!
    I’m bringing foreigners in your direction,
        the most terrifying of nations!
They will direct their violence^[e]
    against the grandeur
        that you’ve created by your wisdom.
⁸ They’ll send you down to the Pit,^[f]
    and you’ll die defiled in the depths of the sea.
⁹ Is that when you’ll say, ‘I’m God’
    to the face of those who will be killing you?
After all, you’re a man,
    and have never been a god,
especially when you’re under the control^[g] of those
    who will defile you!
¹⁰ You will die a death fit for the uncircumcised
    at the hand of foreigners.”
‘for I have said it will be so,’
    declares the Lord.”

“You served as my^[h] model,
    my example of complete wisdom
        and perfect beauty.
¹³ You used to be in Eden—
    God’s paradise!
You wore precious stones for clothing:
ruby,^[i] topaz, diamond,^[j]
    beryl,^[k] onyx, jasper,
        sapphire,^[l] turquoise, and carbuncle.
Your settings were crafted in gold,
    along with your engravings.
On the day of your creation
    they had been prepared!

¹⁴ “You were the anointed cherub;
    having been set in place
on the holy mountain of God,
    you walked in the midst of fiery stones.
¹⁵ You were blameless in your behavior^[m]
    from the day you were created
        until wickedness was discovered in you.
¹⁶ Since your vast business planning^[n]
    filled you with violent intent^[o]
from top to bottom,^[p]
    you sinned,
so I cast you away as defiled
    from the mountain of God.
I destroyed you,
    you guardian cherub,
        from the midst of the fiery stones.
¹⁷ Your heart grew arrogant because of your beauty;
    you annihilated your own wisdom
        because of your splendor.
Then I threw you to the ground
    in the presence of kings,
        giving them a good look at you!
¹⁸ By all of your iniquity
    and unrighteous business planning^[q]
you defiled your sanctuaries,
    so I’m going to bring out fire from within you
and burn you to ashes on the earth
    before the whole watching world!
¹⁹ Everyone who knows you
    throughout all the nations
will be appalled at your calamity
    and you will no longer exist forever.”’”

‘Pay attention to me, Sidon!
    I’m against you,
        and I’m going to glorify myself right in your midst.’
They’ll learn that I am the Lord
    when I carry out these punishments
        and manifest my holiness in her midst.

²³ I’m going to send disease into that city^[t]
    and blood into her streets.
People will drop dead in her midst
    from the violence done to^[u] her from every side.
        Then they’ll learn that I am the Lord God.”