28:1 And the word of the Lord came to me,
saying,
28:2 And thou, son of man, say to the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord;
Because thine heart has been exalted, and thou hast said, I am God, I have
inhabited the dwelling of God in the heart of the sea; yet thou art man and
not God, though thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God:
28:3 art thou wiser than Daniel? or have not the wise instructed thee with
their knowledge?
28:4 Hast thou gained power for thyself by thine [own] knowledge or thine
[own] prudence, and [gotten] gold and silver in thy treasures?
28:5 By thy abundant knowledge and thy traffic thou hast multiplied thy
power; thy hart has been lifted up by thy power.
28:6 Therefore thus saith the Lord; Since thou hast set thine heart as the
hart of God;
28:7 because of this, behold, I [will] bring on thee strange plagues from
the nations; and they shall draw their swords against thee, and against the
beauty of thy knowledge,
28:8 and they shall bring down thy beauty to destruction. And they shall
bring thee down; and thou shalt die the death of the slain in the heart of
the sea.
28:9 Wilt thou indeed say, I am God, before them that slay thee? whereas
thou art man, and not God.
28:10 Thou shalt perish by the hands of strangers among the multitude of the
uncircumcised: for I have spoken it, saith he Lord.
28:11 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
28:12 Son of man, take up a lamentation for the prince of Tyre, and say to
him, Thus saith the Lord God; Thou art a seal of resemblance, and crown of
beauty.
28:13 Thou wast in the delight of the paradise of God; thou hast bound upon
thee every precious stone, the 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 thou hast
filled thy treasures and thy stores in thee with gold.
28:14 From the day that thou wast created thou [wast] with the cherub: I set
thee on the holy mount of God; thou wast in the midst of the stones of fire.
28:15 Thou wast faultless in thy days, from the day that thou wast created,
until iniquity was found in thee.
28:16 Of the abundance of thy merchandise thou hast filled thy storehouses
with iniquity, and hast sinned: therefore thou hast been cast down wounded
from the mount of God, and the cherub has brought thee out of the midst of
the stones of fire.
28:17 Thy heart has been lifted up because of thy beauty; thy knowledge has
been corrupted with thy beauty: because of the multitude of thy sins I have
cast thee to the ground, I have caused thee to be put to open shame before
kings.
28:18 Because of the multitude of thy sins and the iniquities of thy
merchandise, I have profaned thy sacred things; and I will bring fire out of
the midst of thee, this shall devour thee; and I will make thee [to be]
ashes upon thy land before all that see thee.
28:19 And all that know thee among the nations shall groan over thee: thou
art gone to destruction, and thou shalt not exist any more.
28:20 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
28:21 Son of man, set thy face against Sidon, and prophesy against it,
28:22 and say, Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I am against thee, O Sidon; and
I will be glorified in thee; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord, when I
have wrought judgments in thee, and I will be sanctified in thee.
28:23 Blood and death [shall be] in thy streets; and [men] wounded with
swords shall fall in thee and on every side of thee; and they shall know
that I am the Lord.
28:24 And there shall no more be in the house of Israel a thorn of
bitterness and a pricking briar proceeding from them that are round about
them, who dishonoured them; and they shall know that I am the Lord.
28:25 Thus saith the Lord God; I will also gather Israel from the nations,
among whom they have been scattered, and I will be sanctified among them,
and before the peoples and nations: and they shall dwell upon their land,
which I gave to my servant Jacob.
28:26 Yea, they shall dwell upon it safely, and they shall build houses, and
plant vineyards, and dwell securely, when I shall execute judgment on all
that have dishonoured them, [even] on those [that are] round about them; and
they shall know that I am the Lord their God, and the God of their fathers. |
28:1 The word of the LORD came again unto
me, saying,
28:2 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:
28:3 Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can
hide from thee:
28:4 With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee
riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures:
28:5 By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches,
and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:
28:6 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast set thine heart as
the heart of God;
28:7 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.
28:8 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.
28:9 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.
28:10 Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of
strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
28:11 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
28:12 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.
28:13 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.
28:14 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.
28:15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created,
till iniquity was found in thee.
28:16 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.
28:17 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.
28:18 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.
28:19 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.
28:20 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
28:21 Son of man, set thy face against Zidon, and prophesy against it,
28:22 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.
28:23 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.
28:24 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.
28:25 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.
28:26 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. |