“Now, then, hear this, you (A)sensual one,
Who (B)dwells securely,
Who says in [a]your heart,
(C)I am, and there is no one besides me.
I will (D)not sit as a widow,
Nor know loss of children.’

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 47:8 Lit her

“Son of man, say to the [a]leader of Tyre, ‘Thus says the Lord [b]God,

“Because your heart is lifted up
And you have said, ‘(A)I am a god,
I sit in the seat of [c]gods
In the heart of the seas’;
Yet you are a (B)man and not God,
Although you make your heart like the heart of God—

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 28:2 Or ruler, prince
  2. Ezekiel 28:2 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord, and so throughout the ch
  3. Ezekiel 28:2 Or God

‘Will you still say, “I am a god,”
In the presence of your slayer,
Though you are a man and not God,
In the hands of those who wound you?

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