Ezekiel 28

“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.’ ”

“You were the seal of full measure,

full of wisdom,

and perfect in beauty.

¹³You were in Eden,

the garden of God.

Every precious stone adorned you:

ruby, topaz, emerald,

chrysolite, onyx, jasper,

sapphire, turquoise, and beryl.

Gold work of tambourines

and of pipes was in you.

They were prepared in the day that you were created.

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 splendour.

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 amongst the peoples will be astonished at you.

You have become a terror,

and you will exist no more.” ’ ”