jps - Ezekiel:28:1-19

jps@Ezekiel:28:1 @ And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying:

jps@Ezekiel:28:2 @ 'Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyre: Thus saith the Lord GOD: Because thy heart is lifted up, and thou hast said: I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the heart of the seas; yet thou art man, and not God, though thou didst set thy heart as the heart of God--

jps@Ezekiel:28:3 @ Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel! there is no secret that they can hide from thee!

jps@Ezekiel:28:4 @ By thy wisdom and by thy discernment thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures;

jps@Ezekiel:28:5 @ In thy great wisdom by thy traffic hast thou increased thy riches, and thy heart is lifted up because of thy riches--

jps@Ezekiel:28:6 @ Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD: Because thou hast set thy heart as the heart of God;

jps@Ezekiel:28:7 @ Therefore, behold, 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.

jps@Ezekiel:28:8 @ They shall bring thee down to the pit; and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain, in the heart of the seas.

jps@Ezekiel:28:9 @ Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee: I am God? But thou art man, and not God, in the hand of them that defile thee.

jps@Ezekiel:28:10 @ Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers; for I have spoken, saith the Lord GOD.'

jps@Ezekiel:28:11 @ Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying:

jps@Ezekiel:28:12 @ 'Son of man, take up a lamentation for the king of Tyre, and say unto him: Thus saith the Lord GOD: Thou seal most accurate, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty,

jps@Ezekiel:28:13 @ thou wast in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the carnelian, the topaz, and the emerald, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the carbuncle, and the smaragd, and gold; the workmanship of thy settings and of thy sockets was in thee, in the day that thou wast created they were prepared.

jps@Ezekiel:28:14 @ Thou wast the far-covering cherub; and I set thee, so that thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of stones of fire.

jps@Ezekiel:28:15 @ Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till unrighteousness was found in thee.

jps@Ezekiel:28:16 @ By the multitude of thy traffic they filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned; therefore have I cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God; and I have destroyed thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.

jps@Ezekiel:28:17 @ Thy heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness; I have cast thee to the ground, I have laid thee before kings, that they may gaze upon thee.

jps@Ezekiel:28:18 @ By the multitude of thine iniquities, in the unrighteousness of thy traffic, thou hast profaned thy sanctuaries; therefore have I brought forth a fire from the midst of thee, it hath devoured thee, and I have turned thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.

jps@Ezekiel:28:19 @ All they that know thee among the peoples shall be appalled at thee; thou art become a terror, and thou shalt never be any more.'