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Chapter 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 traffick 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 traffick;
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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Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, |
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Son of man, set thy face against Zidon, 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. |
