1 T he word of the Lord came again to me, saying,

And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying:

2 S on of man, say to the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord God: Because your heart is lifted up and you have said and thought, I am a god, I sit in the seat of the gods, in the heart of the seas; yet you are only man and not God, though you imagine yourself to be almost more than mortal with your mind as the mind of God;

`Son of man, say to the leader of Tyre: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because thy heart hath been high, And thou dost say: A god I, The habitation of God I have inhabited, In the heart of the seas, And thou man, and not God, And thou givest out thy heart as the heart of God,

3 I ndeed, you are wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that is hidden from you;

Lo, thou wiser than Daniel, No hidden thing have they concealed from thee.

4 W ith your own wisdom and with your own understanding you have gotten you riches and power and have brought gold and silver into your treasuries;

By thy wisdom and by thine understanding Thou hast made for thee wealth, And makest gold and silver in thy treasuries.

5 B y your great wisdom and by your traffic you have increased your riches and power, and your heart is proud and lifted up because of your wealth;

By the abundance of thy wisdom, Through thy merchandise, Thou hast multiplied thy wealth, And high is thy heart through thy wealth.

6 T herefore thus says the Lord God: Because you have imagined your mind as the mind of God,

Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because of thy giving out thy heart as the heart of God,

7 B ehold therefore, I am bringing strangers upon you, the most terrible of the nations, and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom, and they shall defile your splendor.

Therefore, lo, I am bringing in against thee strangers, The terrible of the nations, And they have drawn out their swords Against the beauty of thy wisdom, And they have pierced thy brightness.

8 T hey shall bring you down to the pit and you shall die the deaths of all the Tyrians that are slain in the heart of the seas.

To destruction they bring thee down, Thou diest by the deaths of the wounded, in the heart of the seas.

9 W ill you still say, I am a god, before him who slays you? But you are only a man and no god in the hand of him who wounds and profanes you.

Dost thou really say, `I God,' Before him who is slaying thee? And thou man, and not God, In the hand of him who is piercing thee.

10 Y ou shall die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers, for I have spoken it, says the Lord God.

The deaths of the uncircumcised thou diest, By the hand of strangers, for I have spoken, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.'

11 M oreover, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying:

12 S on of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre and say to him, Thus says the Lord God: You are the full measure and pattern of exactness, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.

`Son of man, lift up a lamentation for the king of Tyre, And thou hast said to him: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Thou art sealing up a measurement, Full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.

13 Y ou were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was your covering, the carnelian, topaz, jasper, chrysolite, beryl, onyx, sapphire, carbuncle, and emerald; and your settings and your sockets and engravings were wrought in gold. On the day that you were created they were prepared.

In Eden, the garden of God, thou hast been, Every precious stone thy covering, Ruby, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, Sapphire, emerald, and carbuncle, and gold, The workmanship of thy tabrets, and of thy pipes, In thee in the day of thy being produced, have been prepared.

14 Y ou were the anointed cherub that covers with overshadowing, and I set you so. You were upon the holy mountain of God; you walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.

Thou an anointed cherub who is covering, And I have set thee in the holy mount, God thou hast been, In the midst of stones of fire thou hast walked up and down.

15 Y ou were blameless in your ways from the day you were created until iniquity and guilt were found in you.

Perfect thou in thy ways, From the day of thy being produced, Till perversity hath been found in thee.

16 T hrough the abundance of your commerce you were filled with lawlessness and violence, and you sinned; therefore I cast you out as a profane thing from the mountain of God and the guardian cherub drove you out from the midst of the stones of fire.

By the abundance of thy merchandise They have filled thy midst with violence, And thou dost sin, And I thrust thee from the mount of God, And I destroy thee, O covering cherub, From the midst of the stones of fire.

17 Y our heart was proud and lifted up because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor. I cast you to the ground; I lay you before kings, that they might gaze at you.

High hath been thy heart, because of thy beauty, Thou hast corrupted thy wisdom because of thy brightness, On the earth I have cast thee, Before kings I have set thee, to look on thee,

18 Y ou have profaned your sanctuaries by the multitude of your iniquities and the enormity of your guilt, by the unrighteousness of your trade. Therefore I have brought forth a fire from your midst; it has consumed you, and I have reduced you to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all who looked at you.

From the abundance of thy iniquity, By the perversity of thy traffic, Thou hast polluted thy sanctuaries, And I bring forth fire from thy midst, It hath devoured thee, And I make thee become ashes on the earth, Before the eyes of all beholding thee.

19 A ll who know you among the people are astonished and appalled at you; you have come to a horrible end and shall never return to being.

All knowing thee among the peoples Have been astonished at thee, Wastes thou hast been, and thou art not -- to the age.'

20 A gain the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying,

21 S on of man, set your face toward Sidon and prophesy against her.

`Son of man, set thy face unto Zidon, and prophesy concerning it;

22 A nd say, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against you, O Sidon, and I will show forth My glory and be glorified in the midst of you. And they shall know (understand and realize) that I am the Lord when I execute judgments and punishments in her, and am set apart and separated and My holiness is manifested in her.

and thou hast said: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, I against thee, O Zidon, And I have been honoured in thy midst, And they have known that I Jehovah, In My doing in her judgments, And I have been sanctified in her.

23 F or I will send pestilence into her and blood into her streets, and the wounded shall be judged and fall by the sword in the midst of her on every side, and they shall know (understand and realize) that I am the Lord.

And I have sent into her pestilence, And blood into her out-places, The wounded hath been judged in her midst, By the sword upon her round about, And they have known that I Jehovah.

24 A nd there shall be no more a brier to prick the house of Israel or a hurting thorn of all those around them who have treated them with contempt, and they shall know (understand and realize) that I am the Lord God.

And there is no more to the house of Israel A pricking brier, and paining thorn, Of all round about them -- despising them, And they have known that I the Lord Jehovah.

25 T hus says the Lord God: When I gather the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered, and I shall be set apart and separated and My holiness made apparent in them in the sight of the nations, then shall they dwell in their own land which I gave to My servant Jacob.

Thus said the Lord Jehovah: In My gathering the house of Israel, Out of the peoples among whom they were scattered, I have been sanctified in them, Before the eyes of the nations, And they have dwelt on their ground, That I gave to My servant, to Jacob,

26 A nd they shall dwell safely in it and shall build houses and plant vineyards; yes, they shall dwell securely and with confidence when I have executed judgments and punishments upon all those round about them who have despised and trodden upon them and pushed them away, and they shall know (understand and realize) that I am the Lord their God.

And they have dwelt on it confidently, And builded houses, and planted vineyards, And dwelt confidently -- in My doing judgments, On all those despising them round about, And they have known that I, Jehovah, their God!'