Ezekiel 28:16-20
Ezekiel 28:16
Your business brought you many riches. But they also put cruelty inside you, and you sinned. So I treated you like something unclean and threw you off the mountain of God. You were one of the chosen Cherubs who spread your wings over my throne. But I forced you to leave the jewels that sparkled like fire.
Ezekiel 28:17
Your beauty made you proud. Your glory ruined your wisdom. So I threw you down to the ground, and now other kings stare at you.
Ezekiel 28:18
You did many wrong things. You were a very crooked merchant. In this way you made the holy places unclean. So I brought fire from inside you. It burned you! You burned to ashes on the ground. Now everyone can see your shame.
Ezekiel 28:19
“‘All the people in other nations were shocked about what happened to you. What happened to you will make people very afraid. You are finished!’”
Ezekiel 28:20
The word of the Lord came to me. He said,