3. Look, are you wiser than Daniel, so that no secret is hidden from you?
4. By your wisdom and by your understanding you have gained for yourself wealth, and you have amassed gold and silver in your treasuries.
5. By the abundance of your wisdom in your trading you have increased your wealth and your heart was proud in your wealth.” ’ ”
6. Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Because of your regarding your mind like the mind of a god,
7. therefore look! I am bringing strangers over you, the most ruthless of the peoples, and they will draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom, and they will defile your splendor.
8. They will thrust you down to the pit, and you will die a violent death in the heart of the seas.
9. Will you indeed still say “I am a god!” before the face of your killers? And in fact you are a human and not a god in the hand of those who pierce you.
10. You will die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers, for I myself have spoken!” declares the Lord Yahweh.
11. And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
12. “Son of man, raise a lament over the king of Tyre, and you must say to him, ‘thus says the Lord Yahweh: “You were a perfect model of an example, full of wisdom and perfect of beauty.
13. You were in Eden, the garden of God, and every precious stone was your adornment: carnelian, topaz and moonstone, turquoise, onyx and jasper, sapphire, malachite and emerald. And gold was the craftsmanship of your settings and your mountings in you; on the day when you were created they were prepared.
14. You were an anointed guardian cherub, and I placed you on God’s holy mountain; you walked in the midst of stones of fire.
15. You were blameless in your ways from the day when you were created, until wickedness was found in you.
16. In the abundance of your trading, they filled the midst of you with violence, and you sinned; and I cast you as a profane thing from the mountain of God, and I expelled you, the guardian cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.