Chapter 28

  And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:  

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  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.  

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  Behold thou art wiser than Daniel: no secret is hid from thee.  

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  In thy wisdom and thy understanding thou hast made thyself strong: and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures.  

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  By the greatness of thy wisdom, and by thy traffic thou hast increased thy strength: and thy heart is lifted up with thy strength.  

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  Therefore, thus saith the Lord God: Because thy heart is lifted up as the heart of God:  

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  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.  

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  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.  

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  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?  

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  Thou shalt die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God.  

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  And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyre:  

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  And say to him: Thus saith the Lord God: Thou wast the seal of resemblance, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.  

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  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.  

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  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.  

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  Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day of thy creation, until iniquity was found in thee.  

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  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.  

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  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.  

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  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.  

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  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.  

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  And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:  

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  Son of man, set thy face against Sidon: and thou shalt prophesy of it,  

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  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.  

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  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.  

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  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.  

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  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.  

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  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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