4. Because you are wise and understanding,you’ve made yourself rich.You saved gold and silver in your treasuries.
5. Because of your great skill in trading,you’ve made yourself very wealthy.You have become arrogant because of your wealth.
6. “‘This is what the Almighty Lord says:You think you are wise like God.
7. That is why I am going to bring foreigners against you,the most ruthless foreigners among the nations.They will draw their swords against your fine wisdomand dishonor your greatness.
8. They will throw you into a pit,and you will die a violent death in the sea.
9. You will no longer say that you are a godwhen you face those who kill you.You will be a human, not a god, in the hands of those who kill you.
10. You will die at the hands of foreigners like a godless person.I have spoken,’” declares the Lord.
11. The Lord spoke his word to me. He said,
12. “Son of man, sing a funeral song for the ruler of Tyre. Tell him, ‘This is what the Almighty Lord says:You were the perfect example,full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.
13. You were in Eden, God’s garden.You were covered with every kind of precious stone:red quartz, topaz, crystal,beryl, onyx, gray quartz, sapphire,turquoise, and emerald.Your settings and your socketswere made of gold when you were created.
14. I appointed an angel to guard you.You were on God’s holy mountain.You walked among fiery stones.