Ezekiel 28
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The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
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Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus,
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the
heart of God:
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behold, thou art wiser than
Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee:
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with thy wisdom and with thine
understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and
silver into thy treasures:
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by thy great wisdom and by thy
traffic hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up
because of thy riches:
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therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of
God;
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behold, therefore I will bring strangers
upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their
swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy
brightness.
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They shall bring thee down to the pit,
and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the
midst of the seas.
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Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth
thee, I am God? but thou shalt be a man, and no God,
in the hand of him that slayeth thee.
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Thou shalt die the deaths of the
uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
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Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
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Son of man, take up a lamentation upon
the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and
perfect in beauty.
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Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God;
every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz,
and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire,
the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy
tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou
wast created.
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Thou art the anointed cherub that
covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy
mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the
stones of fire.
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Thou wast perfect in thy ways from
the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in
thee.
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By the multitude of thy merchandise they
have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned:
therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God:
and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the
stones of fire.
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Thine heart was lifted up because of thy
beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness:
I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that
they may behold thee.
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Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the
multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffic;
therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall
devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the
sight of all them that behold thee.
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All they that know thee among the people
shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more.
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The Prophecy against
Zidon |
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Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
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Son of man, set thy face against Zidon, Joel
3.4-8 · Zech.
9.1, 2 · Mt. 11.21, 22 · Lk. 10.13, 14 and
prophesy against it,
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and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Zidon; and I
will be glorified in the midst of thee: and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall have executed
judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her.
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For I will send into her pestilence, and
blood into her streets; and the wounded shall be judged in the midst
of her by the sword upon her on every side; and they shall know that
I am the LORD.
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And there shall be no more a pricking
brier unto the house of Israel, nor any grieving thorn of all that are round about them, that despised them; and they shall
know that I am the Lord GOD.
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Thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall have gathered the house of Israel
from the people among whom they are scattered, and shall be
sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, then shall they
dwell in their land that I have given to my servant Jacob.
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And they shall dwell safely therein, and
shall build houses, and plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with
confidence, when I have executed judgments upon all those that
despise them round about them; and they shall know that I am the LORD their God.
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