1 The word of Yahweh came again to me, saying, 2 Son of man, tell
the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because your heart is lifted
up, and you have said, I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of
the seas; yet you are man, and not God, though you did set your heart as the
heart of God—3 behold, you are wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that
is hidden from you; 4 by your wisdom and by your understanding you have
gotten you riches, and have gotten gold and silver into your treasures;
5 by your great wisdom and by your traffic have you increased your
riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches—6 therefore
thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have set your heart as the heart of
God, 7 therefore, behold, I will bring strangers on you, the terrible of
the nations; and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your
wisdom, and they shall defile your brightness. 8 They shall bring you down
to the pit; and you shall die the death of those who are slain, in the heart
of the seas. 9 Will you yet say before him who kills you, I am God? but
you are man, and not God, in the hand of him who wounds you. 10 You shall
die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have
spoken it, says the Lord Yahweh. 11 Moreover the word of Yahweh came to
me, saying, 12 Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre,
and tell him, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: You seal up the sum, full of wisdom,
and perfect in beauty. 13 You were in Eden, the garden of God; every
precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, emerald, chrysolite, onyx, jasper,
sapphire*1 , turquoise, and beryl. Gold work of
tambourines and of pipes was in you. In the day that you were created they
were prepared. 14 You were the anointed cherub who covers: and I set you,
so that you were on the holy mountain of God; you have walked up and
down in the midst of the stones of fire. 15 You were perfect in your ways
from the day that you were created, until unrighteousness was found in you.
16 By the abundance of your traffic they filled the midst of you with
violence, and you have sinned: therefore I have cast you as profane out of
the mountain of God; and I have destroyed you, covering cherub, from the
midst of the stones of fire. 17 Your heart was lifted up because of your
beauty; you have corrupted your wisdom by reason of your brightness: I have
cast you to the ground; I have laid you before kings, that they may see you.
18 By the multitude of your iniquities, in the unrighteousness of your
traffic, you have profaned your sanctuaries; therefore have I brought forth a
fire from the midst of you; it has devoured you, and I have turned you to
ashes on the earth in the sight of all those who see you. 19 All those who
know you among the peoples shall be astonished at you: you are become a
terror, and you shall nevermore have any being. 20 The word of Yahweh came
to me, saying, 21 Son of man, set your face toward Sidon, and prophesy
against it, 22 and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against
you, Sidon; and I will be glorified in the midst of you; and they shall know
that I am Yahweh, when I shall have executed judgments in her, and shall be
sanctified in her. 23 For I will send pestilence into her, and blood into
her streets; and the wounded shall fall in the midst of her, with the sword
on her on every side; and they shall know that I am Yahweh. 24 There shall
be no more a pricking brier to the house of Israel, nor a hurting thorn of
any that are round about them, that did despite to them; and they shall know
that I am the Lord Yahweh. 25 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: When I shall have
gathered the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered,
and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the nations, then shall they
dwell in their own land which I gave to my servant Jacob. 26 They shall
dwell securely therein; yes, they shall build houses, and plant vineyards,
and shall dwell securely, when I have executed judgments on all those who do
them despite round about them; and they shall know that I am Yahweh their
God.
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