1. The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
2. Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord GOD; 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 a man, and not God, though you set your heart as the heart of God:
3. Behold, you are wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from you:
4. With your wisdom and with your understanding you have gotten yourself riches, and have gotten gold and silver into your treasuries:
5. By your great wisdom and by your trade have you increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches:
6. Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Because you have set your heart as the heart of God;
7. Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon 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 deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas.
9. Will you yet say before him that slays you, I am a god? but you shall be a man, and no god, in the hand of him that slays you.
10. You shall die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, says the Lord GOD.
11. Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,