“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.”