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Ezekiel 28:18

Verse 18 of 26. The 28th of 48 chapters in Ezekiel, in The Major Prophets.

14You were the anointed cherub who covers. Then I set you up on the holy mountain of God. You have walked up and down in the middle of the stones of fire.

15You were perfect in your ways from the day that you were created, until unrighteousness was found in you.

16By the abundance of your commerce, your insides were filled with violence, and you have sinned. Therefore I have cast you as profane out of God’s mountain. I have destroyed you, covering cherub, from the middle of the stones of fire.

17Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty. You have corrupted your wisdom by reason of your splendor. I have cast you to the ground. I have laid you before kings, that they may see you.

18By the multitude of your iniquities, in the unrighteousness of your commerce, you have profaned your sanctuaries. Therefore I have brought out a fire from the middle of you. It has devoured you. I have turned you to ashes on the earth in the sight of all those who see you.

19All those who know you among the peoples will be astonished at you. You have become a terror, and you will exist no more.”’”

20The LORD’s word came to me, saying,

21“Son of man, set your face toward Sidon, and prophesy against it,

22and say, ‘The Lord GOD says: “Behold, I am against you, Sidon. I will be glorified among you. Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I have executed judgments in her, and am sanctified in her.

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World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.