1. The word of the Lord came again to me, saying:
2. Son of man, say to the leader 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 godsin the midst of the seas,”yet you are a man, and not God,though you set your heart as the heart of God.
3. You are wiser than Daniel;there is no secret that is a match for you.
4. With your wisdom and with your understanding,you have obtained riches for yourself,and have obtained gold and silverinto your treasuries;
5. by your great wisdom, by your trade,you have increased your riches,and your heart is lifted upbecause of your riches.
6. Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because you have set your heartas the heart of God,
7. therefore, I will bring strangers upon you,the most cruel of the nations;and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom,and defile your brightness.
8. They shall bring you down to the pit,and you shall die the death of those who are slainin the midst of the seas.
9. Will you yet say before him who slays you,“I am a god,”although you are a man and not God,in the hands of those who wound you?
10. You shall die the death of the uncircumcisedby the hand of strangers;for I have spoken! says the Lord God.
11. Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
12. Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre and say to him, Thus says the Lord God: You had the seal of perfection,full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.
13. You were in Eden,the garden of God;every precious stone was your covering:the sardius, topaz, and the diamond,the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper,the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold.The workmanship of your settings and sockets was in you;on the day that you were created, they were prepared.
14. You were the anointed cherub that covers,and I set you there;you were upon the holy mountain of God;you walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.