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Ezekiel 28
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The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, |
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| 28:2
Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because
thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat
of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though
thou set thine heart as the heart of God: |
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| 28:3
Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide
from thee: |
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| 28:4
With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches,
and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures: |
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| 28:5
By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches,
and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches: |
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| 28:6
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast set thine heart as
the heart of God; |
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| 28:7
Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the
nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom,
and they shall defile thy brightness. |
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| 28:8
They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of
them that are slain in the midst of the seas. |
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| 28:9
Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but thou shalt
be a man, and no God, in the hand of him that slayeth thee. |
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| 28:10
Thou shalt die the
deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it,
saith the Lord GOD. |
"Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised."
Watch out or God will make you "die the
deaths of the uncircumcised," which is, no doubt, a most unpleasant death.
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| 28:11
Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
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| 28:12
Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto
him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and
perfect in beauty. |
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Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy
covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the
jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the
workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day
that thou wast created. |
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| 28:14
Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou
wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the
midst of the stones of fire. |
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| 28:15
Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till
iniquity was found in thee. |
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| 28:16
By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee
with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane
out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from
the midst of the stones of fire. |
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| 28:17
Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy
wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will
lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee. |
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| 28:18
Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by
the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the
midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the
earth in the sight of all them that behold thee. |
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| 28:19
All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a
terror, and never shalt thou be any more. |
"Thou [Tyrus] ... never shalt thou be any more."
Once more Ezekiel repeats the false prophecy
of the complete destruction of Tyrus and its perpetual desolation.
(See 26:14, 21 and 27:36)
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| 28:20
Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
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| 28:21
Son of man, set thy face against Zidon, and prophesy against it, |
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And say, Thus saith
the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Zidon; and I will be glorified in
the midst of thee: and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I
shall have executed judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her. |
(28:22-23)
"They shall know that I am the LORD, when I
... send into her pestilence, and blood into her streets."
Zidon will know that he is
the Lord when he sends "pestilence and blood into her streets."
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| 28:23
For I will send
into her pestilence, and blood into her streets; and the wounded shall
be judged in the midst of her by the sword upon her on every side; and they
shall know that I am the LORD. |
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| 28:24
And there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the house of Israel, nor
any grieving thorn of all that are round about them, that despised them; and
they shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
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(28:24-26)
"And they shall dwell safely therein, and ... they shall dwell with
confidence."
Ezekiel prophesies that Israel will reside in their homeland safely and
securely, never again to fight neighboring nations.
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| 28:25
Thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall have gathered the house of Israel
from the people among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in
them in the sight of the heathen, then shall they dwell in their land that I
have given to my servant Jacob.
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And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall build houses, and plant
vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with
confidence, when I have executed
judgments upon all those that despise them round about them; and they shall
know that I am the LORD their God.
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