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Ezekiel 28:5-9

Ezekiel 28:5

By your great wisdom and by your trade You have increased your riches and power, And your heart is proud and arrogant because of your wealth;

Ezekiel 28:6

Therefore thus says the Lord God, ‘Because you have imagined your mind [to be] Like the mind of God [having thoughts and plans like God Himself],

Ezekiel 28:7

Therefore, behold, I will bring strangers (Babylonians) upon you, The most ruthless and violent of the nations. And they will draw their swords Against the beauty of your wisdom [O Tyre] And defile your splendor.

Ezekiel 28:8

They will bring you down to the pit [of destruction], And you will die the death of all those who die In the heart of the seas.

Ezekiel 28:9

Will you still say, “I am a god,” In the presence of him who kills you? But you are [only] a man [made of earth] and not God, In the hands of those who wound and profane you.