Ezekiel 28:1-10
International Standard Version
Prophecy against Tyre
28 This message came to me from the Lord: 2 “Son of Man, tell Tyre’s Commander-in-Chief,[a] ‘This is what the Lord God says:
“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.”
Footnotes
- Ezekiel 28:2 Lit. Nagid; i.e. a senior officer entrusted with dual roles of operational oversight and administrative authority
- Ezekiel 28:2 Lit. tall
- Ezekiel 28:2 Lit. heart
- Ezekiel 28:2 I.e., an allusion to Tyre’s location on an island off the coast of Lebanon
- Ezekiel 28:7 Lit. swords
- Ezekiel 28:8 I.e. the place of punishment in the afterlife
- Ezekiel 28:9 Lit. you’re in the hand
Ezekiel 28:1-10
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.
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- Ezekiel 28:1 Literally “was”
- Ezekiel 28:1 Literally “to say”
- Ezekiel 28:2 Or “mortal,” or “son of humankind”
- Ezekiel 28:2 Or “And”
- Ezekiel 28:3 Literally “all of hidden/secret”
- Ezekiel 28:5 Or “by/through”
- Ezekiel 28:6 Literally “heart”
- Ezekiel 28:6 Literally “heart”
- Ezekiel 28:7 Or “splendor”
- Ezekiel 28:8 Literally “a death of a slain”
- Ezekiel 28:9 Literally “Will you say, will you say”
- Ezekiel 28:9 Or “slayers”
- Ezekiel 28:9 Or “man”
- Ezekiel 28:9 Literally “piercers/slayers of you”
- Ezekiel 28:10 Hebrew “I, I”
- Ezekiel 28:10 Literally “declaration of”
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