rsv Ezekiel:28:1-19
rsv@Ezekiel:28:1 @ The word of the LORD came to me:
rsv@Ezekiel:28:2 @ "Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord GOD: "Because your heart is proud, and you have said, `I am a god, I sit in the seat of the gods, in the heart of the seas,' yet you are but a man, and no god, though you consider yourself as wise as a god--
rsv@Ezekiel:28:3 @ you are indeed wiser than Daniel; no secret is hidden from you;
rsv@Ezekiel:28:4 @ by your wisdom and your understanding you have gotten wealth for yourself, and have gathered gold and silver into your treasuries;
rsv@Ezekiel:28:5 @ by your great wisdom in trade you have increased your wealth, and your heart has become proud in your wealth--
rsv@Ezekiel:28:6 @ therefore thus says the Lord GOD: "Because you consider yourself as wise as a god,
rsv@Ezekiel:28:7 @ therefore, behold, I will bring strangers upon you, the most terrible of the nations; and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom and defile your splendor.
rsv@Ezekiel:28:8 @ They shall thrust you down into the Pit, and you shall die the death of the slain in the heart of the seas.
rsv@Ezekiel:28:9 @ Will you still say, `I am a god,' in the presence of those who slay you, though you are but a man, and no god, in the hands of those who wound you?
rsv@Ezekiel:28:10 @ You shall die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of foreigners; for I have spoken, says the Lord GOD."
rsv@Ezekiel:28:11 @ Moreover the word of the LORD came to me:
rsv@Ezekiel:28:12 @ "Son of man, raise a lamentation over the king of Tyre, and say to him, Thus says the Lord GOD: "You were the signet of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.
rsv@Ezekiel:28:13 @ You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was your covering, carnelian, topaz, and jasper, chrysolite, beryl, and onyx, sapphire, carbuncle, and emerald; and wrought in gold were your settings and your engravings. On the day that you were created they were prepared.
rsv@Ezekiel:28:14 @ With an anointed guardian cherub I placed you; you were on the holy mountain of God; in the midst of the stones of fire you walked.
rsv@Ezekiel:28:15 @ You were blameless in your ways from the day you were created, till iniquity was found in you.
rsv@Ezekiel:28:16 @ In the abundance of your trade you were filled with violence, and you sinned; so I cast you as a profane thing from the mountain of God, and the guardian cherub drove you out from the midst of the stones of fire.
rsv@Ezekiel:28:17 @ Your heart was proud because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor. I cast you to the ground; I exposed you before kings, to feast their eyes on you.
rsv@Ezekiel:28:18 @ By the multitude of your iniquities, in the unrighteousness of your trade you profaned your sanctuaries; so I brought forth fire from the midst of you; it consumed you, and I turned you to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all who saw you.
rsv@Ezekiel:28:19 @ All who know you among the peoples are appalled at you; you have come to a dreadful end and shall be no more for ever."
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