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Ezekiel 28
Lexham English Bible

A Prophecy Aimed at the King of Tyre

28 And the word of Yahweh came[a] to me, saying,[b] 2 “Son of man,[c] say to the leader of Tyre, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh:

“Because your heart was haughty,
    and you said, ‘I am a god;
I sit in the seat of the gods,
    I sit in the heart of the seas!’
But[d] you are a human, not a god,
    and you gave your heart to be like the heart of a god.
3 Look, are you wiser than Daniel,
    so that no secret[e] is hidden from you?
4 By your wisdom and by your understanding
    you have gained for yourself wealth,
and you have amassed gold and silver
    in your treasuries.
5 By the abundance of your wisdom in your trading
    you have increased your wealth
    and your heart was proud in[f] your wealth.”’”

6 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh:

“Because of your regarding your mind[g]
    like the mind[h] of a god,
7 therefore look! I am bringing strangers over you,
    the most ruthless of the peoples,
and they will draw their swords against the beauty[i] of your wisdom,
    and they will defile your splendor.
8 They will thrust you down to the pit,
    and you will die a violent death[j]
    in the heart of the seas.
9 Will you indeed still say[k] “I am a god!”
    before the face of your killers?[l]
And in fact you are a human[m] and not a god
    in the hand of those who pierce you.[n]
10 You will die the death of the uncircumcised
    by the hand of strangers,

for I myself[o] have spoken!” declares[p] the Lord Yahweh.

11 And the word of Yahweh came[q] to me, saying,[r] 12 “Son of man,[s] raise a lament over the king of Tyre, and you must say to him, ‘thus says the Lord Yahweh:

“You were a perfect model of[t] an example,
    full of wisdom and perfect of beauty.
13 You were in Eden, the garden of God,
    and every precious stone was your adornment:
carnelian, topaz and moonstone,[u]
    turquoise, onyx and jasper,
sapphire,[v] malachite and emerald.
    And gold was the craftsmanship of your settings
and your mountings in you;
    on the day when you were created they were prepared.
14 You were an anointed guardian cherub,
    and I placed you on God’s holy mountain;[w]
you walked in the midst of stones of fire.
15     You were blameless in your ways
from the day when you were created,[x]
    until wickedness was found in you.
16 In the abundance of your trading,
    they filled the midst of you with violence, and you sinned;
and I cast you as a profane thing from the mountain of God,
    and I expelled you, the guardian[y] cherub,
    from the midst of the stones of fire.
17 Your heart was proud because of your beauty;
    you ruined your wisdom because of your splendor.
I threw you on the ground before[z] kings;
    I have exposed you for viewing.[aa]
18 From the abundance of your iniquities
    in the dishonesty of your trading,
I profaned your sanctuaries
    and I brought fire from your midst;
it consumed you, and I have turned you to ashes on the earth
    before the eyes of everyone who sees you.[ab]
19 All who know you[ac] among the peoples
    are appalled over you;
you have become as horrors,
    and you shall cease to exist forever.”’”[ad]

20 And the word of Yahweh came[ae] to me, saying,[af] 21 “Son of man,[ag] set your face toward Sidon and prophesy against it, 22 and you must say, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh:

“Look! I am against you, Sidon,
    and I display my glory in the midst of you,
and they will know that I am Yahweh
    when I execute my judgments,[ah]
    and I will show myself holy within it.
23 And I will send into it a plague,
    and blood will be in its streets.
And the dead will fall in the midst of her
    by the sword that is against it from all around;
and they will know that I am Yahweh.

24 And there will not be any longer[ai] a painful thorn and a sharp thornbush for[aj] the house of Israel from anywhere around them[ak] from those who are despising them,[al] and they will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.”’”

25 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “When I gather the house of Israel from the peoples to which they were scattered about in them, and I show myself holy in[am] them before the eyes of the nations, then they will live on their soil, which I gave to my servant Jacob. 26 And they will live on it in safety, and they will build houses, and they will plant vineyards, and they will live in safety when I execute my judgments on all those who despise them from all around them,[an] and then they will know that I am Yahweh their God.”

Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 28:1 Literally “was”
  2. Ezekiel 28:1 Literally “to say”
  3. Ezekiel 28:2 Or “mortal,” or “son of humankind”
  4. Ezekiel 28:2 Or “And”
  5. Ezekiel 28:3 Literally “all of hidden/secret”
  6. Ezekiel 28:5 Or “by/through”
  7. Ezekiel 28:6 Literally “heart”
  8. Ezekiel 28:6 Literally “heart”
  9. Ezekiel 28:7 Or “splendor”
  10. Ezekiel 28:8 Literally “a death of a slain”
  11. Ezekiel 28:9 Literally “Will you say, will you say”
  12. Ezekiel 28:9 Or “slayers”
  13. Ezekiel 28:9 Or “man”
  14. Ezekiel 28:9 Literally “piercers/slayers of you”
  15. Ezekiel 28:10 Hebrew “I, I”
  16. Ezekiel 28:10 Literally “declaration of”
  17. Ezekiel 28:11 Literally “was”
  18. Ezekiel 28:11 Literally “to say”
  19. Ezekiel 28:12 Or “mortal,” or “son of humankind”
  20. Ezekiel 28:12 Or “for”
  21. Ezekiel 28:13 Meaning of Hebrew uncertain
  22. Ezekiel 28:13 Or “lapis lazuli”
  23. Ezekiel 28:14 Literally “on the mountain of the holiness of God”
  24. Ezekiel 28:15 Literally “being created you”
  25. Ezekiel 28:16 Or “guarding”
  26. Ezekiel 28:17 Literally “in the face of”
  27. Ezekiel 28:17 Literally “to look at you”
  28. Ezekiel 28:18 Literally “before the eyes of all seeing you”
  29. Ezekiel 28:19 Literally “all of the knowers of you”
  30. Ezekiel 28:19 Literally “there is not you until eternity”
  31. Ezekiel 28:20 Literally “was”
  32. Ezekiel 28:20 Literally “to say”
  33. Ezekiel 28:21 Or “mortal,” or “son of humankind”
  34. Ezekiel 28:22 Literally “in/at doing in her judgments”
  35. Ezekiel 28:24 Literally “and not it will be again”
  36. Ezekiel 28:24 Or “against”
  37. Ezekiel 28:24 Literally “from all of all around them”
  38. Ezekiel 28:24 Literally “the ones despising them”
  39. Ezekiel 28:25 Or “among”
  40. Ezekiel 28:26 Literally “the ones despising them”
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Ezekiel 28
Common English Bible

Prince of Tyre

28 The Lord’s word came to me: 2 Human one, say to the prince of Tyre, The Lord God proclaims: In your arrogance, you say, “I am God, and as God I rule the seas!” Though you claim to have the mind of a god, you are mortal, not divine. 3 You are certainly wiser than Daniel; no secrets are hidden from you. 4 By your wisdom and discernment, you made yourself rich, and you filled your storehouses with silver and gold. 5 Through your shrewd trading you multiplied your riches. But then you became proud of your riches.

6 So now the Lord God proclaims: Because you claim to have the mind of a god, 7 I’ll bring foreigners, the most ruthless nations, against you. They will let loose their swords against your fine wisdom, and they will degrade your splendor. 8 They will hurl you to destruction, and you will die, murdered, on the high seas. 9 When you face your murderers, will you still say, “I’m God”? In your killers’ hands, you are mortal, not divine. 10 You will die as the uncircumcised do, at the hands of foreigners. I have spoken. This is what the Lord God has said.

11 The Lord’s word came to me: 12 Human one, sing a lament for the king of Tyre. Say to him, The Lord God proclaims: You were full of wisdom and beauty, the image of perfection. 13 You were in Eden, God’s garden. You were covered with gold and every precious stone: carnelian, topaz, and moonstone; beryl, onyx, and jasper; lapis lazuli, turquoise, and emerald. On the day that you were created, finely crafted pendants and engravings were prepared. 14 You, a winged creature, were installed as a guardian. I placed you in God’s holy mountain where you walked among the stones of fire. 15 From the day you were created until injustice was found in you, your ways were assured. 16 But because of your trade, your oppressive business practices piled up, and you became impure. So I expelled you from God’s mountain. I removed you, winged creature, guardian, from among the stones of fire. 17 You exalted yourself because of your beauty and corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor. I will cast you down to the earth in the sight of kings, and I will make a spectacle of you. 18 Because of your corrupt trade, which surpassed your many other sins, you made your sanctuaries impure. Therefore, I will bring fire from your midst. When it has consumed you, I will turn you into dust on the earth in the sight of all who see you. 19 Everyone among the peoples who knows you will be appalled because of you. You will become a terror. From that time on, you will be nothing.

Against Sidon

20 The Lord’s word came to me: 21 Human one, face Sidon, prophesy against it, 22 and say, The Lord God proclaims: I’m against you, Sidon, and I will manifest my glory in you. When I’ve executed judgment against it and through it have manifested my holiness, they will know that I am the Lord. 23 I will hurl plague against it, and blood will run in its streets. When the sword comes against it from all sides, the slain will fall within it. Then they will know that I am the Lord. 24 The house of Israel will no longer suffer from the pricking thorn or painful briar of any of its neighbors who hold it in contempt. And they will know that I am the Lord God.

25 The Lord God proclaims: When I gather the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they’ve scattered, and I demonstrate my holiness through them in the sight of the nations, they will live on their fertile land, which I gave to my servant Jacob. 26 They will live on it in safety. They will build houses, plant vineyards, and live in safety. When I execute judgments against all who hold them in contempt on every side, they will know that I, the Lord, am their God.

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