nsb - Ezekiel:28:1-19

nsb@Ezekiel:28:1 @ Jehovah continued to speak to me:

nsb@Ezekiel:28:2 @ »Son of man, tell the ruler of Tyre: This is what the Lord Jehovah says: »»In your arrogance you say, I am a god. I sit on God's throne in the sea. But you are only human and not a god, although you think you are a god. (2 Thes strkjv@2:4)

nsb@Ezekiel:28:3 @ »You think that you are wiser than Daniel and that no secret can be hidden from you.

nsb@Ezekiel:28:4 @ »Because you are wise and understanding, you have made yourself rich. You saved gold and silver in your treasuries.

nsb@Ezekiel:28:5 @ »Because of your great skill in trading, you have made yourself very wealthy. You have become arrogant because of your wealth.«

nsb@Ezekiel:28:6 @ »Therefore the Lord Jehovah says: Because you have made your heart like the heart of God,

nsb@Ezekiel:28:7 @ »I will bring strangers, ruthless nations, upon you. They will draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom and defile your splendor.

nsb@Ezekiel:28:8 @ »They will throw you into a pit. You will die a violent death in the sea.

nsb@Ezekiel:28:9 @ »You will no longer say that you are a god when you face those who kill you. You will be a human, not a god, in the hands of those who kill you.«

nsb@Ezekiel:28:10 @ »You will die at the hands of foreigners like a godless person. I have spoken, declares Jehovah.«

nsb@Ezekiel:28:11 @ Jehovah continued to speak his word to me:

nsb@Ezekiel:28:12 @ »Son of man, sing a funeral song for the ruler of Tyre. Tell him: This is what the Lord Jehovah says: »»You were the perfect example, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.

nsb@Ezekiel:28:13 @ »»You were in Eden, God's garden. You were covered with every kind of precious stone: red quartz, topaz, crystal, beryl, jade, onyx, gray quartz, sapphire, turquoise, and emerald. Your settings and your sockets were made of gold when you were created.

nsb@Ezekiel:28:14 @ »»I appointed an angel to guard you. You were on God's holy mountain. You walked among fiery stones.

nsb@Ezekiel:28:15 @ »»Your behavior was perfect from the time you were created, until evil was found in you.

nsb@Ezekiel:28:16 @ »»By the abundance of your trade you were filled with violence, and you sinned. Therefore I have cast you as profane from the mountain of God. I have destroyed you, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.

nsb@Ezekiel:28:17 @ »»Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty. You corrupted your wisdom by reason of your splendor. I cast you to the ground. I put you before kings, that they may see you.

nsb@Ezekiel:28:18 @ »»By the multitude of your iniquities, in the unrighteousness of your trade you profaned your sanctuaries. Therefore I have brought fire from the midst of you. It has consumed you. I have turned you to ashes on the earth in the eyes of all who see you.

nsb@Ezekiel:28:19 @ »»All who know you among the peoples are appalled at you. You have become terrified. You will cease to be forever.« «