Ezekiel 28

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

And you, son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre, Thus says the Lord: Because your heart was lifted up and you said, I am a god, I have occupied a dwelling of God in the heart of the sea — yet you are a man and not a god, and you made your heart as the heart of a god.

Are you wiser than Daniel? Have not wise men instructed you with their knowledge?

Was it by your knowledge or by your prudence that you made power for yourself, and gold and silver in your treasuries?

By your great knowledge and your trade you multiplied your power; your heart was lifted up because of your power.

Therefore thus says the Lord: Since you made your heart as the heart of a god,

on account of this, behold, I am bringing upon you strangers, pestilent ones from the nations; and they shall unsheathe their swords against you and against the beauty of your knowledge, and they shall lay your beauty low unto destruction.

And they shall bring you down, and you shall die the death of the slain in the heart of the sea.

Will you indeed say, I am a god, before those who slay you? But you are a man and not a god, in the multitude

of the uncircumcised you shall perish, by the hands of strangers; for I have spoken, says the Lord.

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

Son of man, take up a lament over the ruler of Tyre, and say to him, Thus says the Lord the Lord: You are a seal of likeness and a crown of beauty.

You came to be in the luxury of the paradise of God; with every precious stone you were adorned — sardius and topaz and emerald and carbuncle and sapphire and jasper and silver and gold and ligure and agate and amethyst and chrysolite and beryl and onyx — and with gold you filled your treasuries and your storehouses within you, from the day you were created.

With the cherub I set you on the holy mountain of God; you came to be in the midst of stones of fire.

You were blameless in your days, from the day you were created, until wrongdoing was found in you.

From the abundance of your trade you filled your storerooms with lawlessness, and you sinned; and you were wounded from the mountain of God, and the cherub led you out from the midst of the stones of fire.

Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; your knowledge was corrupted along with your beauty. Because of the multitude of your sins I cast you down to the ground; before kings I gave you to be made an example.

Because of the multitude of your sins and of the iniquities of your trade, you profaned your sanctuaries; and I will bring out fire from your midst — this shall devour you — and I will make you ashes upon your own land, before the eyes of all who see you.

And all who know you among the nations shall be appalled at you; you have become destruction, and you shall exist no more forever.

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

Son of man, set your face toward Sidon and prophesy against her,

and say, Thus says the Lord: Behold, I am against you, O Sidon, and I will be glorified in you. And you shall know that I am the Lord, when I execute judgements in you and am sanctified in you.

Blood and death shall be in your streets, and the wounded shall fall by swords in you, all around you; and they shall know that I am the Lord.

And there shall no longer be for the house of Israel a thorn of bitterness and a briar of pain, from all those round about them who dishonoured them; and they shall know that I am the Lord.

Thus says the Lord the Lord: I will also gather Israel from the nations where they were scattered, and I will be sanctified in them before the peoples and the nations; and they shall dwell upon their own land, which I gave to my servant Jacob.

And they shall dwell upon it in hope, and they shall build houses and plant vineyards, and they shall dwell in hope, when I execute judgement on all who dishonoured them among those round about them; and they shall know that I am the Lord their God and the God of their fathers.