> [[ezekiel-27|← Previous]] | [[ezekiel-00|TOC]] | [[ezekiel-29|Next →]] --- # Ezekiel, Chapter 28 ## Chapter 28 **The Prince of Tyre.** 1 The word of the LORD came to me: ^ezekiel-28-1 2 Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre: Thus says the Lord G OD: ^ezekiel-28-2 Because you are haughty of heart, you say, “I am a god! I sit on a god’s throne in the heart of the sea!” But you are a man, not a god; yet you pretend you are a god at heart! 3 Oh yes, you are wiser than Daniel, ^ezekiel-28-3 nothing secret is too obscure for you! 4 By your wisdom and intelligence ^ezekiel-28-4 you made yourself rich, filling your treasuries with gold and silver. 5 Through your great wisdom in trading ^ezekiel-28-5 you heaped up riches for yourself— your heart is haughty because of your riches. 6 Therefore thus says the Lord G OD: ^ezekiel-28-6 Because you pretend you are a god at heart, 7 Therefore, I will bring against you ^ezekiel-28-7 strangers, the most bloodthirsty of nations. They shall draw their swords against your splendid wisdom, and violate your radiance. 8 They shall thrust you down into the pit: ^ezekiel-28-8 you shall die a violent death in the heart of the sea. 9 Then, face to face with your killers, ^ezekiel-28-9 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 uncircumcised ^ezekiel-28-10 handed over to strangers, for I have spoken—oracle of the Lord G OD. 11 The word of the LORD came to me: ^ezekiel-28-11 12 Son of man, raise a lament over the king of Tyre, and say to him: Thus says the Lord G OD: ^ezekiel-28-12 You were a seal of perfection, full of wisdom, perfect in beauty. 13 In Eden, the garden of God, you lived; ^ezekiel-28-13 precious stones of every kind were your covering: Carnelian, topaz, and beryl, chrysolite, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, garnet, and emerald. Their mounts and settings were wrought in gold, fashioned for you the day you were created. 14 With a cherub I placed you; ^ezekiel-28-14 I put you on the holy mountain of God, where you walked among fiery stones. 15 Blameless were you in your ways ^ezekiel-28-15 from the day you were created, Until evil was found in you. 16 Your commerce was full of lawlessness, and you sinned. ^ezekiel-28-16 Therefore I banished you from the mountain of God; the cherub drove you out from among the fiery stones. 17 Your heart had grown haughty ^ezekiel-28-17 because of your beauty; You corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor. I cast you to the ground, I made you a spectacle in the sight of kings. 18 Because of the enormity of your guilt, ^ezekiel-28-18 and the perversity of your trade, you defiled your sanctuary. I brought fire out of you; it devoured you; I made you ashes on the ground in the eyes of all who see you. 19 All the nations who knew you ^ezekiel-28-19 are appalled on account of you; You have become a horror, never to be again. **Against Sidon.** 20 The word of the LORD came to me: ^ezekiel-28-20 21 Son of man, turn your face toward Sidon and prophesy against it. ^ezekiel-28-21 22 Thus says the Lord G OD: ^ezekiel-28-22 Watch out! I am against you, Sidon; I will win glory for myself in your midst. They shall know that I am the LORD, when I deliver judgment upon it and manifest my holiness in it. 23 I will send disease into it; ^ezekiel-28-23 blood will fill its streets, Within it shall fall those slain by the sword raised against it on every side. Then they shall know that I am the LORD. 24 No longer will there be a thorn that tears ^ezekiel-28-24 or a brier that scratches for the house of Israel From the surrounding neighbors who despise them; thus they shall know that I am the LORD. 25 Thus says the Lord G OD: When I gather the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered, and I manifest my holiness through them in the sight of the nations, then they shall live on the land I gave my servant Jacob. ^ezekiel-28-25 26 They shall dwell on it securely, building houses and planting vineyards. They shall dwell securely while I execute judgment on all their neighbors who treated them with contempt; then they shall know that I, the LORD, am their God. ^ezekiel-28-26 \* (28:1] – [10) Ezekiel mocks the arrogance of Tyre’s leader, who mistakes the city’s commercial success for evidence of his divinity. At the hands of a foreign army, commissioned by the only God worthy of the name, this leader dies a humiliating, unceremonious death. \* (28:3) Wiser than Daniel: see note on [14:14]. \* (28:12] – [19) Ezekiel describes the leader of Tyre in language that recalls the imagery of [Gn 2] – [3]. \* (28:14) The holy mountain of God: the residence of gods in Israelite and non-Israelite myth; cf. [[isaiah-14|Is 14]]:13. Fiery stones: associated with the divine presence; cf. ([[ezekiel-01|Ez 1]]:13]; ([[psalm-18|Ps 18]]:13]. a. (28:3) cf. [[ezekiel-14|Ez 14]]:14; [Dn 1:20]; [2:20] – [23]. b. (28:7) cf. [Ez 30:11]; [31:12]; [32:12]. c. (28:10) cf. [Ez 32:19], [24]. d. (28:12) [[isaiah-14|Is 14]]:12 – [15]. e. (28:13) cf. [Ez 31:8] – [9]; [Gn 2:8], [15]. f. (28:16) [Gn 3:24]. g. (28:17) [[isaiah-10|Is 10]]:12. h. (28:18) [Ob 18]. i. (28:19) [Lv 26:12]. j. (28:24) [Nm 33:55]. k. (28:25) cf. [[ezekiel-20|Ez 20]]:41. l. (28:26) [Lv 25:18] – [19]; [Jer 23:6]. --- _New American Bible, revised edition_ (2010, 1991, 1986, 1970) Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Washington, D.C. > [[ezekiel-27|← Previous]] | [[ezekiel-00|TOC]] | [[ezekiel-29|Next →]]