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.