Ezekiel 28:1-10
Authorized (King James) Version
28 The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord God;
Because thine heart is lifted up,
and thou hast said, I am a God,
I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas;
yet thou art a man, and not God,
though thou set thine heart as the heart of God:
3 behold, thou art wiser than Daniel;
there is no secret that they can hide from thee:
4 with thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches,
and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures:
5 by thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches,
and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:
6 therefore thus saith the Lord God;
Because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God;
7 behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations:
and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom,
and they shall defile thy brightness.
8 They shall bring thee down to the pit,
and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas.
9 Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God?
but thou shalt be a man, and no God, in the hand of him that slayeth thee.
10 Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers:
for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God.
KJV reproduced by permission of Cambridge University Press, the Crown’s patentee in the UK.