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The word of the LORD came again to me, saying,
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Son of man, tell the prince of Tzor, Thus says the Lord GOD: 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;-
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behold, you are wiser than Daniyel; there is no secret that is hidden from you;
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by your wisdom and by your understanding you have gotten you riches, and have gotten gold and silver into your treasures;
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by your great wisdom [and] by your traffic have you increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches;-
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therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you have set your heart as the heart of God,
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You shall die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, says the Lord GOD.
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Moreover the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
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Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tzor, and tell him, Thus says the Lord GOD: You seal up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
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You were in `Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was your covering, the sardius, the pitdah, and the diamond, the bareket, the shoham, and the yashefay, the sappir, the yahalom, and the yahalom, and gold: the workmanship of your timbrels and of your pipes was in you; in the day that you were created they were prepared.
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You were the anointed Keruv 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.
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You were perfect in your ways from the day that you were created, until unrighteousness was found in you.
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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 Keruv, from the midst of the stones of fire.
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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.
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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 eretz in the sight of all those who see you.
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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.