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Ezekiel 28:6

Verse 6 of 26. The 28th of 48 chapters in Ezekiel, in The Major Prophets.

2“Son of man, tell the prince of Tyre, ‘The Lord GOD says: “Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, ‘I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the middle of the seas;’ yet you are man, and no god, though you set your heart as the heart of a god—

3behold, you are wiser than Daniel. There is no secret that is hidden from you.

4By your wisdom and by your understanding you have gotten yourself riches, and have gotten gold and silver into your treasuries.

5By your great wisdom and by your trading you have increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches—”

6“‘therefore the Lord GOD says: “Because you have set your heart as the heart of God,

7therefore, behold, I will bring strangers on you, the terrible of the nations. They will draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom. They will defile your brightness.

8They will bring you down to the pit. You will die the death of those who are slain in the heart of the seas.

9Will you yet say before him who kills you, ‘I am God’? But you are man, and not God, in the hand of him who wounds you.

10You will die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers; for I have spoken it,” says the Lord GOD.’”

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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.