[1] The word of Yahweh came again to me, saying, [2] Son of man, tell the
prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because your heart is lifted up,
and you have said, I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of
the seas; yet you are man, and not God, though you did set your heart as
the heart of God;- [3] behold, you are wiser than Daniel; there is no
secret that is hidden from you; [4] by your wisdom and by your
understanding you have gotten you riches, and have gotten gold and silver
into your treasures; [5] by your great wisdom [and] by your traffic have
you increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your
riches;- [6] therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have set your
heart as the heart of God, [7] therefore, behold, I will bring strangers on
you, the terrible of the nations; and they shall draw their swords against
the beauty of your wisdom, and they shall defile your brightness. [8] They
shall bring you down to the pit; and you shall die the death of those who
are slain, in the heart of the seas. [9] Will you yet say before him who
kills you, I am God? but you are man, and not God, in the hand of him who
wounds you. [10] You shall die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand
of strangers: for I have spoken it, says the Lord Yahweh. [11] Moreover the
word of Yahweh came to me, saying, [12] Son of man, take up a lamentation
over the king of Tyre, and tell him, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: You seal up
the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. [13] You were in Eden, the
garden of God; every precious stone was your covering, the sardius, the
topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire,
the emerald, and the emerald, and gold: the workmanship of your tambourines
and of your pipes was in you; in the day that you were created they were
prepared. [14] You were the anointed cherub who covers: and I set you, [so
that] you were on the holy mountain of God; you have walked up and down in
the midst of the stones of fire. [15] You were perfect in your ways from
the day that you were created, until unrighteousness was found in you. [16]
By the abundance of your traffic they filled the midst of you with
violence, and you have sinned: therefore I have cast you as profane out of
the mountain of God; and I have destroyed you, covering cherub, from the
midst of the stones of fire. [17] Your heart was lifted up because of your
beauty; you have corrupted your wisdom by reason of your brightness: I have
cast you to the ground; I have laid you before kings, that they may see
you. [18] By the multitude of your iniquities, in the unrighteousness of
your traffic, you have profaned your sanctuaries; therefore have I brought
forth a fire from the midst of you; it has devoured you, and I have turned
you to ashes on the earth in the sight of all those who see you. [19] All
those who know you among the peoples shall be astonished at you: you are
become a terror, and you shall nevermore have any being. [20] The word of
Yahweh came to me, saying, [21] Son of man, set your face toward Sidon, and
prophesy against it, [22] and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am
against you, Sidon; and I will be glorified in the midst of you; and they
shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall have executed judgments in her,
and shall be sanctified in her. [23] For I will send pestilence into her,
and blood into her streets; and the wounded shall fall in the midst of her,
with the sword on her on every side; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
[24] There shall be no more a pricking brier to the house of Israel, nor a
hurting thorn of any that are round about them, that did despite to them;
and they shall know that I am the Lord Yahweh. [25] Thus says the Lord
Yahweh: When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the peoples
among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight
of the nations, then shall they dwell in their own land which I gave to my
servant Jacob. [26] They shall dwell securely therein; yes, they shall
build houses, and plant vineyards, and shall dwell securely, when I have
executed judgments on all those who do them despite round about them; and
they shall know that I am Yahweh their God.
