Ezekiel 28:5-9
Ezekiel 28:5
By your great wisdom and by your traffic you have increased your riches and power, and your heart is proud and lifted up because of your wealth;
Ezekiel 28:6
Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because you have imagined your mind as the mind of God [having thoughts and purposes suitable only to God Himself], [Obad. 3.]
Ezekiel 28:7
Behold therefore, I am bringing strangers upon you, the most terrible of the nations, and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom [O Tyre], and they shall defile your splendor.
Ezekiel 28:8
They shall bring you down to the pit [of destruction] and you shall die the [many] deaths of all the Tyrians that are slain in the heart of the seas.
Ezekiel 28:9
Will you still say, I am a god, before him who slays you? But you are only a man [made of earth] and no god in the hand of him who wounds and profanes you.