Yechezkel 28 יחזקאל כ״ח

The word of the Lord came again to me, saying,

Son of man, say to the prince of Żor, Thus says the Lord God; Because thy heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the heart of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou hast set thy heart as the heart of God:

behold, thou art wiser than Dani᾽el; there is no secret that they can hide from thee:

with thy wisdom and with thy understanding thou hast acquired riches, and hast gotten gold and silver in thy treasures:

by thy great wisdom and by thy trading thou hast increased thy riches, and thy heart is lifted up because of thy riches:

therefore thus says the Lord God; Because thou hast set thy heart as the heart of God;

behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the most terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness.

They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the heart of the seas.

Wilt thou yet say before him that slays thee, I am God? but thou art a man, and not God, in the hand of him that slays thee.

Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, says the Lord God.

Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

Son of man, take up a lamentation for the king of Żor, and say to him, Thus says the Lord God; Thou art a seal and a paragon, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.

Thou has been in ῾Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the ruby, the crysolithe, and the diamond, the emerald, the shoham, and the jade, the sapphire, the turquoise, and the beryl, and gold; the workmanship of thy settings and thy sockets was in thee, in the day that thou wast created they were prepared.

Thou wast the far covering keruv; 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.

Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.

By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I have cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering keruv, from the midst of the stones of fire.

Thy heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I have cast thee to the ground, I have laid thee before kings, that they may gaze upon thee.

Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thy iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffic; therefore have I brought forth a fire from the midst of thee, it has devoured thee, and I have turned thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.

All they that know thee among the peoples shall be appalled at thee: thou art become a terror, and thou shalt exist no more for ever.

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

Son of man, set thy face against Żidon, and prophesy against it,

and say, Thus says the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, O Żidon; 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.

For I will send into her pestilence, and blood into her streets; and the wounded shall fall in heaps in the midst of her by the sword upon her on every side; and they shall know that I am the Lord.

And there shall be no more a pricking brier to the house of Yisra᾽el, nor a thorn to give pain, among all those that are round about that disdain them; and they shall know that I am the Lord.

Thus says the Lord God; When I shall have gathered the house of Yisra᾽el 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 land that I have given to my servant Ya῾aqov.

And they shall dwell safely there, and shall build houses, and plant vineyards, and they shall dwell in security, when I have executed judgments upon all those that disdain them round about them; and they shall know that I am the Lord their God.