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Chapter 28 |
| 1 | The word of
the LORD came again unto me, saying, |
| 2 | Son of man, say unto the prince
of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou
hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet
thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of
God: |
| 3 |
Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that
they can hide from thee: |
| 4 | With thy wisdom and with thine understanding
thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy
treasures: |
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| By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou
increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:
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| 6 | Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast set thine heart as
the heart of God; |
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7 | Behold, therefore 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. |
| 8 | They shall
bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are
slain in the midst of the seas. |
| 9 | Wilt thou yet say before him
that slayeth thee, I am God? but thou shalt be a man, and no God, in the hand
of him that slayeth thee. |
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10 | Thou shalt die the deaths of the
uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord
GOD. |
| 11 |
Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, |
| 12 |
Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him,
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect
in beauty. |
| 13
| Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious
stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the
onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold:
the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day
that thou wast created. |
| 14 | Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth;
and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast
walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. |
| 15 | Thou wast
perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was
found in thee. |
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16 | By the multitude of thy merchandise they have
filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will
cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O
covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. |
| 17 | Thine heart
was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason
of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before
kings, that they may behold thee. |
| 18 | Thou hast defiled thy
sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy
traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall
devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all
them that behold thee. |
| 19 | All they that know thee among the people
shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be
any more. |
| 20
| Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
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| 21 | Son of man, set thy face against Zidon, and prophesy against it,
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| 22 | And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Zidon;
and I will be glorified in the midst of thee: and they shall know that I am the
LORD, when I shall have executed judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in
her. |
| 23 |
For I will send into her pestilence, and blood into her
streets; and the wounded shall be judged in the midst of her by the sword upon
her on every side; and they shall know that I am the LORD. |
| 24 | And
there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the house of Israel, nor any
grieving thorn of all that are round about them, that despised them; and they
shall know that I am the Lord GOD. |
| 25 | Thus saith the Lord GOD; When
I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the people among whom they are
scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, then
shall they dwell in their land that I have given to my servant Jacob.
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| 26 | And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall build houses, and plant
vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with confidence, when I have executed
judgments upon all those that despise them round about them; and they shall
know that I am the LORD their God. |
