Ezekiel 28

A Prophecy Aimed at the King of Tyre

¹And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,[#Literally “was”; #Literally “to say”]

²“Son of man, say to the leader of Tyre, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh:[#Or “mortal,” or “son of humankind”]

“Because your heart was haughty,

I sit in the seat of the gods,

But you are a human, not a god,

³Look, are you wiser than Daniel,

⁴By your wisdom and by your understanding

and you have amassed gold and silver

⁵By the abundance of your wisdom in your trading

⁶Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh:

“Because of your regarding your mind

⁷therefore look! I am bringing strangers over you,

and they will draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom,

⁸They will thrust you down to the pit,

⁹Will you indeed still say “I am a god!”[#Literally “Will you say, will you say”]

And in fact you are a human and not a god

¹⁰You will die the death of the uncircumcised

for I myself have spoken!” declares the Lord Yahweh.

¹¹And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,[#Literally “was”; #Literally “to say”]

¹²“Son of man, raise a lament over the king of Tyre, and you must say to him, ‘thus says the Lord Yahweh:[#Or “mortal,” or “son of humankind”]

“You were a perfect model of an example,

¹³You were in Eden, the garden of God,

carnelian, topaz and moonstone,

sapphire, malachite and emerald.

and your mountings in you;

¹⁴You were an anointed guardian cherub,

you walked in the midst of stones of fire.

from the day when you were created,

¹⁶In the abundance of your trading,

and I cast you as a profane thing from the mountain of God,

¹⁷Your heart was proud because of your beauty;

I threw you on the ground before kings;

¹⁸From the abundance of your iniquities

I profaned your sanctuaries

it consumed you, and I have turned you to ashes on the earth

¹⁹All who know you among the peoples[#Literally “all of the knowers of you”]

you have become as horrors,

²⁰And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,[#Literally “was”; #Literally “to say”]

²¹“Son of man, set your face toward Sidon and prophesy against it,[#Or “mortal,” or “son of humankind”]

²²and you must say, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh:

“Look! I am against you, Sidon,

and they will know that I am Yahweh

²³And I will send into it a plague,

And the dead will fall in the midst of her

and they will know that I am Yahweh.

²⁴And there will not be any longer a painful thorn and a sharp thornbush for the house of Israel from anywhere around them from those who are despising them, and they will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.” ’ ”[#Literally “and not it will be again”; #Or “against”; #Literally “from all of all around them”; #Literally “the ones despising them”]

²⁵Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “When I gather the house of Israel from the peoples to which they were scattered about in them, and I show myself holy in them before the eyes of the nations, then they will live on their soil, which I gave to my servant Jacob.[#Or “among”]

²⁶And they will live on it in safety, and they will build houses, and they will plant vineyards, and they will live in safety when I execute my judgments on all those who despise them from all around them, and then they will know that I am Yahweh their God.”[#Literally “the ones despising them”]