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Chapter 28
1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
2 Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre: Thus said the Lord God: Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said: I am God, and T sit in the chair of God in the heart of the sea: whereas you are a man, and not God: and have set your heart as if it were the heart of God.
3 Behold you are wiser than Daniel: no secret is hid from you.
4 In your wisdom and your understanding you have made yourself strong: and have gotten gold and silver into your treasures.
5 By the greatness of your wisdom, and by your traffic you have increased your strength: and your heart is lifted up with your strength.
6 Therefore, thus said the Lord God: Because your heart is lifted up as the heart of God:
7 Therefore behold, I will bring upon you strangers the strongest of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom, and they shall defile your beauty.
8 They shall kill you, and bring you down: and you shall die the death of them that are slain in the heart of the sea.
9 will you yet say before them that slay you: I am God; whereas you are a man, and not God, in the hand of them that slay you?
10 You shall die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, said the Lord God.
11 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyre:
12 And say to him: Thus said the Lord God: you were the seal of resemblance, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
13 You were in the pleasures of the paradise of God: every precious stone teas your covering: the sardius, the topaz, and the jasper, the chrysolite, and the onyx, and the beryl, the sapphire, and the carbuncle, and the emerald: gold the work of your beauty: and your pipes were prepared in the day that you were created.
14 You a cherub stretched out, and protecting, and I set you in the holy mountain of God, you have walked in the midst of the stones of fire.
15 You were perfect in your ways from the day of your creation, until iniquity was found in you.
16 By the multitude of your merchandise, your inner parts were filled with iniquity, and you have sinned: and I cast you out from the mountain of God, and destroyed you, O covering cherub, out of the midst of the stones of fire.
17 And your heart was lifted up with your beauty: you best lost your wisdom in your beauty, I have cast you to the ground: I have set you before the face of kings, that they might behold you.
18 You have defiled your sanctuaries by the multitude of your iniquities, and by the iniquity of your traffic: therefore I will bring forth a fire from the midst of you, to devour you, and I will make you as ashes upon the earth in the sight of all that see you.
19 All that shall see you among the nations, shall be astonished at you: you are brought to nothing, and you shall never be any more.
20 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
21 Son of man, set your face against Sidon: and you shall prophesy of it,
22 And shall say: Thus said the Lord God: Behold I come against you, Sidon, and I will be glorified in the midst of you: and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall execute judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her.
23 And I will send into her pestilence, and blood in her streets: and they shall fall being slain by the sword on all sides in the midst thereof: and they shall know that I am the Lord.
24 And the house of Israel shall have no more a stumblingblock of bitterness, nor a thorn causing pain on every side round about them, of them that are against them: and they shall know that I am the Lord God.
25 Thus said the Lord God: When I shall have gathered together the house of Israel out of the people among whom they are scattered: I will be sanctified in them before the Gentiles: and they shall dwell in their own land, which I gave to my servant Jacob.
26 And they shall dwell therein secure, and they shall build houses, and shall plant vineyards, and shall dwell with confidence, when I shall have executed judgments upon all that are their enemies round about: and they shall know that I am the Lord their God.