1And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

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2“Son of man, say to the leader of Tyre: Thus says the Lord God: Because your heart has been exalted, and you have said, ‘I am God, and I sit in the chair of God, in the heart of the sea,’ though you are a man, and not God, and because you have presented your heart as if it were the heart of God:

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Ezekiel 28:9, Ezekiel 28:9, 2 Thessalonians 2:4, 2 Thessalonians 2:4, Isaiah 14:13

3Behold, you are wiser than Daniel; no secret is concealed from you.

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Daniel 1:20, Daniel 1:20, Daniel 2:22, Daniel 2:22, Daniel 2:27

4By your wisdom and prudence, you have made yourself strong, and you have acquired gold and silver for your storehouses.

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Proverbs 18:11, Deuteronomy 8:17, Deuteronomy 8:18, Proverbs 23:4, Proverbs 23:5

5By the multitude of your wisdom, and by your business dealings, you have multiplied strength for yourself. And your heart has been exalted by your strength.

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Psalms 62:10, Psalms 52:7, Psalms 62:10, Psalms 52:7, Ezekiel 28:2

6Therefore, thus says the Lord God: Because your heart has been exalted as if it were the heart of God,

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Ezekiel 28:2, Ezekiel 28:2, Exodus 9:17, Exodus 9:17, Job 40:9

7for this reason, behold, I will lead over you foreigners, the most robust among the Gentiles. And they will bare their swords over the beauty of your wisdom, and they will defile your beauty.

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Ezekiel 31:12, Ezekiel 31:12, Ezekiel 32:12, Ezekiel 30:11, Ezekiel 32:12

8They will destroy you and pull you down. And you will die the death of those slain in the heart of the sea.

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Ezekiel 27:34, Ezekiel 27:26, Ezekiel 27:27, Ezekiel 27:34, Ezekiel 27:26

9So then, will you speak, in the presence of those who are destroying you, before the hand of those who are killing you, saying, ‘I am God,’ though you are a man, and not God?

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Ezekiel 28:2, Ezekiel 28:2, Psalms 82:7, Isaiah 31:3, Psalms 82:7

10You will die the death of the uncircumcised at the hand of foreigners. For I have spoken, says the Lord God.”

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Ezekiel 31:18, Ezekiel 31:18, Ezekiel 32:19, Ezekiel 32:19, 1 Samuel 17:36

11And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: “Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre,

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12and you shall say to him: Thus says the Lord God: You were the seal of similitudes, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.

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Ezekiel 19:1, Ezekiel 19:1, Ezekiel 26:17, Ezekiel 26:17, 2 Corinthians 1:22

13You were with the delights of the Paradise of God. Every precious stone was your covering: sardius, topaz, and jasper, chrysolite, and onyx, and beryl, sapphire, and garnet, and emerald. The work of your beauty was of gold, and your fissures were ready in the day when you were formed.

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Ezekiel 28:15, Ezekiel 28:15, Ezekiel 27:16, Genesis 2:8, Ezekiel 27:16

14You were a cherub, stretched out and protecting, and I stationed you on the holy mountain of God. You have walked in the midst of stones containing fire.

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Isaiah 14:12, Isaiah 14:15, Isaiah 14:12, Isaiah 14:15, Exodus 30:26

15You were perfect in your ways, from the day of your formation, until iniquity was found in you.

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2 Peter 2:4, 2 Peter 2:4, Genesis 1:26, Genesis 1:27, Ezekiel 28:17

16By the multitude of your business dealings, your interior was filled with iniquity, and you sinned. And I cast you away from the mountain of God, and I perished you, O protecting cherub, from the midst of the stones containing fire.

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1 Timothy 6:9, 1 Timothy 6:10, 1 Timothy 6:9, 1 Timothy 6:10, Habakkuk 2:17

17And your heart was exalted by your beauty; you have destroyed your own wisdom by your beauty. I have cast you to the ground. I have presented you before the face of kings, so that they may examine you.

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Ezekiel 28:5, Ezekiel 28:5, Ezekiel 31:10, James 4:6, Ezekiel 28:2

18You have defiled your sanctuaries, by the multitude of your iniquities and by the iniquity of your business dealings. Therefore, I will produce a fire from your midst, which will consume you, and I will make you into ashes upon the earth, in the sight of all who are watching you.

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Malachi 4:3, Malachi 4:3, Revelation 18:8, Revelation 18:8, Amos 1:9

19All who gaze upon you among the Gentiles will be stupefied over you. You were made out of nothing, and you shall not be, forever.”

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Ezekiel 26:21, Ezekiel 26:21, Revelation 18:21, Revelation 18:15, Revelation 18:19

20And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

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21“Son of man, set your face against Sidon, and you shall prophesy about it.

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Ezekiel 6:2, Ezekiel 6:2, Genesis 10:15, Genesis 10:15, Ezekiel 25:2

22And you shall say: Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against you, Sidon, and I will be glorified in your midst. And they shall know that I am the Lord, when I will have executed judgments in her, and when I will have been sanctified in her.

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Ezekiel 39:13, Ezekiel 39:13, Ezekiel 20:41, Exodus 14:4, Exodus 14:17

23And I will send a pestilence upon her, and there will be blood in her streets. And they will fall, slain by the sword, on every side in her midst. And they shall know that I am the Lord.

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Ezekiel 38:22, Ezekiel 38:22, Ezekiel 25:11, Ezekiel 26:6, Ezekiel 25:17

24And the house of Israel will no longer be a stumbling block of bitterness, nor a thorn bringing pain everywhere around them, to those who turn against them. And they shall know that I am the Lord God.”

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Numbers 33:55, Joshua 23:13, Numbers 33:55, Joshua 23:13, 2 Corinthians 12:7

25Thus says the Lord God: “When I will have gathered together the house of Israel, from the peoples among whom they have been dispersed, I shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the Gentiles. And they shall live in their own land, which I gave to my servant Jacob.

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Jeremiah 32:37, Jeremiah 32:37, Ezekiel 20:41, Ezekiel 20:41, Ezekiel 36:28

26And they shall live within it securely. And they shall build houses and plant vineyards. And they shall live in confidence, when I will have executed judgments upon all those who turn against them on every side. And they shall know that I am the Lord their God.”

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Ezekiel 28:24, Ezekiel 28:24, Ezekiel 28:22, Ezekiel 28:22, Ezekiel 34:25