| 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: |
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4 | With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast
gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures: |
| 5 | By thy great wisdom and by
thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up
because of thy riches: |
| 6 |
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast set thine heart as the
heart of God; |
| 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. |
| 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. |
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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. |
| 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. |
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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. |
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20 | Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, |
| 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. |
| 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. |
