2. Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre: Thus says the Lord God:Because you are haughty of heart,you say, “I am a god!I sit on a god’s thronein the heart of the sea!”But you are a man, not a god;yet you pretendyou are a god at heart!
3. Oh yes, you are wiser than Daniel,nothing secret is too obscure for you!
4. By your wisdom and intelligenceyou made yourself rich,filling your treasuries with gold and silver.
5. Through your great wisdom in tradingyou heaped up riches for yourself—your heart is haughty because of your riches.
6. Therefore thus says the Lord God:Because you pretend you are a god at heart,
7. Therefore, I will bring against youstrangers, the most bloodthirsty of nations.They shall draw their swordsagainst your splendid wisdom,and violate your radiance.
8. They shall thrust you down into the pit:you shall die a violent deathin the heart of the sea.
9. Then, face to face with your killers,will you still say, “I am a god”?No, you are a man, not a god,handed over to those who slay you.
10. You shall die the death of the uncircumcisedhanded over to strangers,for I have spoken—oracle of the Lord God.
11. The word of the Lord came to me: