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The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
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Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyre, Thus hath the Lord GOD said: Because thy heart has lifted
thee up and thou hast said, I
am God, I sit
in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas (yet thou
art man, and not God); and thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God:
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behold, thou
art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee:
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with thy wisdom and with thine intelligence thou hast gotten thee riches and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures:
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by the greatness of thy wisdom in thy trafficking thou hast multiplied thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:
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therefore thus hath the Lord GOD said: Because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God,
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behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the strong ones of the Gentiles, and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness.
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They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die of the death of
those that are slain in the midst of the seas.
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Wilt thou yet say before him that slays thee, I
am God? but thou
shalt be a man, and not God, in the hand of him that slays thee.
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Thou shalt die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken, said the Lord GOD.
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And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
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Son of man, raise up lamentations upon the king of Tyre and say unto him, Thus hath the Lord GOD said: Thou dost seal up the sum
of perfection, full of wisdom, and completed in beauty.
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Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone
was thy covering: the sardius, topaz, diamond, turquoise, onyx, and beryl, the sapphire, ruby, and emerald, and gold; the works of thy tambourines and of thy pipes were prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.
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Thou, great cherubim,
wast covered, and I placed thee; thou wast in the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked among stones of fire.
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Thou
wast perfect in all thy ways from the day that thou wast created, until iniquity was found in thee.
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Because of the multitude of thy trafficking thou wast filled with violence, and thou hast sinned; and
I cast thee out of the mountain of God, and I cast thee unto evil from among the stones of fire, O cherubim
that wast covered.
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Thine heart lifted thee up because of thy beauty; thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness; I will cast thee to the earth; I will expose thee before the kings, that they may behold thee.
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Thou hast defiled thy sanctuary by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy trafficking; therefore I brought forth fire from the midst of thee, which has consumed thee, and I brought thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all those that behold thee.
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All those that knew thee from among the peoples shall marvel over thee; thou hast been
greatly disturbed, and thou shalt not exist again forever.