Ezekiel 28

¹The word of the Lord came againe vnto me, saying,

²Sonne of man, say vnto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saieth the Lord God, Because thine heart is exalted, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God in ye mids of the sea, yet thou art but a man and not God, and though thou didest thinke in thine heart, that thou wast equall with God,

³Behold, thou art wiser then Daniel: there is no secrete, that they can hide from thee.

⁴With thy wisedome and thine vnderstanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten golde and siluer into thy treasures.

⁵By thy great wisedome and by thine occupying hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted vp because of thy riches.

⁶Therefore thus sayeth the Lord God, Because thou didest thinke in thine heart, that thou wast equall with God,

⁷Behold, therefore I wil bring strangers vpon thee, euen the terrible nations: and they shall drawe their swordes against the beautie of thy wisedome, and they shall defile thy brightnes.

⁸They shall cast thee downe to the pit, and thou shalt die the death of them, that are slaine in the middes of the sea.

⁹Wilt thou say then before him, that slayeth thee, I am a god? but thou shalt be a man, and no God, in the hands of him that slayeth thee.

¹⁰Thou shalt die the death of the vncircumcised by the hands of stragers: for I haue spoken it, sayth the Lord God.

¹¹Moreouer the word of the Lord came vnto me, saying,

¹²Sonne of man, take vp a lamentation vpon the King of Tyrus, and say vnto him, Thus sayeth the Lord God, Thou sealest vp the summe, and art full of wisedome and perfite in beautie.