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The Prophecy
of Ezechiel 28
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre: Thus saith the
Lord God: Because thy heart is lifted up, and thou hast
said: I am God, and T sit in the chair of God in the
heart of the sea: whereas thou art a man, and not God:
and hast set thy heart as if it were the heart of God.
Behold thou art wiser than Daniel: no secret is hid
from thee.
In thy wisdom and thy understanding thou hast made thyself
strong: and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures.
By the greatness of thy wisdom, and by thy traffic thou
hast increased thy strength: and thy heart is lifted
up with thy strength.
Therefore, thus saith the Lord God: Because thy heart
is lifted up as the heart of God:
Therefore behold, I will bring upon thee strangers the
strongest of the nations: and they shall draw their
swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall
defile thy beauty.
They shall kill thee, and bring thee down: and thou
shalt die the death of them that are slain in the heart
of the sea.
Wilt thou yet say before them that slay thee: I am God;
whereas thou art a man, and not God, in the hand of
them that slay thee?
Thou shalt die the death of the uncircumcised by the
hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord
God.
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: Son of
man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyre:
And say to him: Thus saith the Lord God: Thou wast the
seal of resemblance, full of wisdom, and perfect in
beauty.
Thou wast in the pleasures of the paradise of God: every
precious stone teas thy 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 thy beauty: and thy pipes were prepared
in the day that thou wast created.
Thou a cherub stretched out, and protecting, and I set
thee in the holy mountain of God, thou hast walked in
the midst of the stones of fire.
Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day of thy creation,
until iniquity was found in thee.
By the multitude of thy merchandise, thy inner parts
were filled with iniquity, and thou hast sinned: and
I cast thee out from the mountain of God, and destroyed
thee, O covering cherub, out of the midst of the stones
of fire.
And thy heart was lifted up with thy beauty: thou best
lost thy wisdom in thy beauty, I have cast thee to the
ground: I have set thee before the face of kings, that
they might behold thee.
Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of
thy iniquities, and by the iniquity of thy traffic:
therefore I will bring forth a fire from the midst of
thee, to devour thee, and I will make thee as ashes
upon the earth in the sight of all that see thee.
All that shall see thee among the nations, shall be
astonished at thee: thou art brought to nothing, and
thou shalt never be any more.
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
Son of man, set thy face against Sidon: and thou shalt
prophesy of it,
And shalt say: Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I come
against thee, Sidon, and I will be glorified in the
midst of thee: and they shall know that I am the Lord,
when I shall execute judgments in her, and shall be
sanctified in her.
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.
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.
Thus saith 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.
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. |
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