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.
15. You were perfect in your waysfrom the day that you were created,until iniquity was found in you.
16. By the multitude of your merchandise,you were filled with violence in your midst,and you sinned;therefore I have cast you as profane out of the mountain of God;and I have destroyed you, O covering cherub,from the midst of the stones of fire.
17. Your heart was lifted upbecause of your beauty;you have corrupted your wisdomby reason of your brightness;I cast you to the ground,I lay you before kings, that they may see you.
18. You have defiled your sanctuariesby the multitude of your iniquities, by the iniquity of your trade;therefore I have brought fire out from your midst;it has devoured you,and I have turned you to ashes upon the earthin the sight of all those who see you.