Ezekiel 28

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 mortal, and no god,

though you compare your mind

with the mind of a god.

³You are indeed wiser than Daniel;

no secret is hidden from you;

⁴by your wisdom and your understanding

you have amassed wealth for yourself,

and have gathered gold and silver

into your treasuries.

⁵By your great wisdom in trade

you have increased your wealth,

and your heart has become proud in your wealth.

⁶Therefore thus says the Lord God:

Because you compare your mind

with the mind of a god,

⁷therefore, I will bring strangers against you,

the most terrible of the nations;

they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom

and defile your splendor.

⁸They shall thrust you down to the Pit,

and you shall die a violent death

in the heart of the seas.

⁹Will you still say, “I am a god,”

in the presence of those who kill you,

though you are but a mortal, and no god,

in the hands of those who wound you?

¹⁰You shall die the death of the uncircumcised

by the hand of foreigners;

for I have spoken, says the Lord God.

You were the signet of perfection,

full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.

¹³You were in Eden, the garden of God;

every precious stone was your covering,

carnelian, chrysolite, and moonstone,

beryl, onyx, and jasper,

sapphire, turquoise, and emerald;

and worked in gold were your settings

and your engravings.

On the day that you were created

they were prepared.

¹⁴With an anointed cherub as guardian I placed you;

you were on the holy mountain of God;

you walked among the stones of fire.

¹⁵You were blameless in your ways

from the day that you were created,

until iniquity was found in you.

¹⁶In 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 among the stones of fire.

¹⁷Your 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.

¹⁸By the multitude of your iniquities,

in the unrighteousness of your trade,

you profaned your sanctuaries.

So I brought out fire from within you;

it consumed you,

and I turned you to ashes on the earth

in the sight of all who saw you.

¹⁹All who know you among the peoples

are appalled at you;

you have come to a dreadful end

and shall be no more forever.

I am against you, O Sidon,

and I will gain glory in your midst.

They shall know that I am the Lord

when I execute judgments in it,

and manifest my holiness in it;

²³for I will send pestilence into it,

and bloodshed into its streets;

and the dead shall fall in its midst,

by the sword that is against it on every side.

And they shall know that I am the Lord.