Because your heart is proud
    and you have said, ‘I am a god;
I sit in the seat of the gods,
    in the heart of the seas’,
yet you are but a mortal, and no god,
    though you compare your mind
    with the mind of a god.
³ You are indeed wiser than Daniel;^[a]
    no secret is hidden from you;
⁴ by your wisdom and your understanding
    you have amassed wealth for yourself,
and have gathered gold and silver
    into your treasuries.
⁵ By your great wisdom in trade
    you have increased your wealth,
    and your heart has become proud in your wealth.
⁶ Therefore, thus says the Lord God:
Because you compare your mind
    with the mind of a god,
⁷ therefore, I will bring strangers against you,
    the most terrible of the nations;
they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom
    and defile your splendour.
⁸ They shall thrust you down to the Pit,
    and you shall die a violent death
    in the heart of the seas.
⁹ Will you still say, ‘I am a god’,
    in the presence of those who kill you,
though you are but a mortal, and no god,
    in the hands of those who wound you?
¹⁰ You shall die the death of the uncircumcised
    by the hand of foreigners;
    for I have spoken, says the Lord God.

You were the signet of perfection,^[b]
    full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.
¹³ You were in Eden, the garden of God;
    every precious stone was your covering,
carnelian, chrysolite, and moonstone,
    beryl, onyx, and jasper,
sapphire,^[c] turquoise, and emerald;
    and worked in gold were your settings
    and your engravings.^[d]
On the day that you were created
    they were prepared.
¹⁴ With an anointed cherub as guardian I placed you;^[e]
    you were on the holy mountain of God;
    you walked among the stones of fire.
¹⁵ You were blameless in your ways
    from the day that you were created,
    until iniquity was found in you.
¹⁶ In the abundance of your trade
    you were filled with violence, and you sinned;
so I cast you as a profane thing from the mountain of God,
    and the guardian cherub drove you out
    from among the stones of fire.
¹⁷ Your heart was proud because of your beauty;
    you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendour.
I cast you to the ground;
    I exposed you before kings,
    to feast their eyes on you.
¹⁸ By the multitude of your iniquities,
    in the unrighteousness of your trade,
    you profaned your sanctuaries.
So I brought out fire from within you;
    it consumed you,
and I turned you to ashes on the earth
    in the sight of all who saw you.
¹⁹ All who know you among the peoples
    are appalled at you;
you have come to a dreadful end
    and shall be no more for ever.

I am against you, O Sidon,
    and I will gain glory in your midst.
They shall know that I am the Lord
    when I execute judgements in it,
    and manifest my holiness in it;
²³ for I will send pestilence into it,
    and bloodshed into its streets;
and the dead shall fall in its midst,
    by the sword that is against it on every side.
And they shall know that I am the Lord.