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Ezekiel 28 Literal Standard Version

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  • OT: Masoretic Hebrew
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1 And there is a word of YHWH to me, saying, 2 “Son of man, say to the leader of Tyre, Thus said Lord YHWH: Because your heart has been high, || And you say: I [am] a god, || I have inhabited the habitation of God, || In the heart of the seas, || And you [are] man, and not God, || And you give out your heart as the heart of God, 3 Behold, you [are] wiser than Daniel, || No hidden thing have they concealed from you. 4 By your wisdom and by your understanding || You have made wealth for yourself, || And make gold and silver in your treasuries. 5 By the abundance of your wisdom, || Through your merchandise, || You have multiplied your wealth, || And your heart is high through your wealth. 6 Therefore, thus said Lord YHWH: Because of your giving out your heart as the heart of God, 7 Therefore, behold, I am bringing in strangers against you, || The terrible of the nations, || And they have drawn out their swords || Against the beauty of your wisdom, || And they have pierced your brightness. 8 They bring you down to destruction, || You die by the deaths of the wounded, in the heart of the seas. 9 Do you really say, I [am] God, || Before him who is slaying you? And you [are] man, and not God, || In the hand of him who is piercing you. 10 You die the deaths of the uncircumcised, || By the hand of strangers, for I have spoken,” || A declaration of Lord YHWH. 11 And there is a word of YHWH to me, saying, 12 “Son of man, lift up a lamentation for the king of Tyre, || And you have said to him, Thus said Lord YHWH: You are sealing up a measurement, || Full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. 13 You have been in Eden, the garden of God, || Every precious stone [was] your covering, || Ruby, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, || Sapphire, emerald, and carbuncle, and gold, || The workmanship of your tambourines and of your pipes, || In you in the day of your being produced, have been created; 14 And I established you as the anointed, covering cherub, || You have been in [the] holy mountain of God, || You have walked up and down in [the] midst of [the] stones of fire. 15 You [were] perfect in your ways, || From [the] day of your being created, || Until perversity was found in you. 16 By [the] abundance of your merchandise || They have filled your midst with violence, || And you sin, || And I thrust you from [the] mountain of God, || And I destroy you, O covering cherub, || From [the] midst of [the] stones of fire. 17 Your heart has been high because of your beauty, || You have corrupted your wisdom because of your brightness, || I have cast you to earth, || I have set you before kings, to look on you, 18 From [the] abundance of your iniquity, || By [the] perversity of your merchandise, || You have defiled your sanctuaries, || And I bring forth fire from your midst, || It has devoured you, || And I make you become ashes on the earth, || In [the] eyes of all beholding you. 19 All knowing you among the peoples || Have been astonished at you, || You have been terrors, and you are not—for all time.” 20 And there is a word of YHWH to me, saying, 21 “Son of man, set your face toward Sidon, and prophesy concerning it; 22 and you have said, Thus said Lord YHWH: Behold, I [am] against you, O Sidon, || And I have been honored in your midst, || And they have known that I [am] YHWH, || In My doing judgments in her, || And I have been sanctified in her. 23 And I have sent pestilence into her, || And blood into her out-places, || The wounded has been judged in her midst, || By the sword on her all around, || And they have known that I [am] YHWH. 24 And there is no more pricking brier and paining thorn || For the house of Israel, || Of all around them—despising them, || And they have known that I [am] Lord YHWH. 25 Thus said Lord YHWH: In My gathering the house of Israel, || Out of the peoples among whom they were scattered, || I have been sanctified in them, || Before the eyes of the nations, || And they have dwelt on their ground, || That I gave to My servant, to Jacob, 26 And they have dwelt confidently on it, || And built houses, and planted vineyards, || And dwelt confidently—in My doing judgments, || On all those despising them all around, || And they have known that I [am] their God YHWH!”

Cross references (23)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 2 Ezekiel 28:9; 2 Thessalonians 2:4; Isaiah 14:13–14; Psalm 9:20; Proverbs 16:18
  2. 3 Daniel 1:20; Daniel 2:22; Daniel 2:27–28; Job 15:8; Daniel 5:11–12
  3. 4 Proverbs 18:11; Proverbs 23:4–5; Deuteronomy 8:17–18; Ecclesiastes 9:11; Ezekiel 29:3
  4. 5 Psalm 52:7; Psalm 62:10; Hosea 13:6; Ezekiel 28:2; James 4:13–14
  5. 6 Ezekiel 28:2; Exodus 9:17; James 1:11; 2 Thessalonians 2:4; Job 40:9–12
  6. 7 Ezekiel 31:12; Ezekiel 30:11; Ezekiel 32:12; Habakkuk 1:6–8; Daniel 7:7
  7. 8 Ezekiel 27:34; Ezekiel 27:26–27; Job 33:28; Ezekiel 32:18–30; Job 33:18
  8. 9 Ezekiel 28:2; Psalm 82:7; Isaiah 31:3; Acts 12:22–23; Daniel 5:23–30
  9. 10 Ezekiel 31:18; Ezekiel 32:19; 1 Samuel 17:36; Ezekiel 32:21; Philippians 3:3
  10. 12 Ezekiel 19:1; Ezekiel 26:17; Colossians 2:3; Colossians 1:9; James 3:13–18
  11. 13 Ezekiel 28:15; Ezekiel 27:16; Genesis 2:8; Isaiah 54:11–12; Isaiah 51:3
  12. 14 Isaiah 14:12–15; Exodus 30:26; Exodus 40:9; Ezekiel 28:13; Ezekiel 20:40
  13. 15 2 Peter 2:4; Ezekiel 28:17–18; Genesis 1:26–27; Romans 7:9; Ezekiel 28:12
  14. 16 1 Timothy 6:9–10; Habakkuk 2:8; Habakkuk 2:17; Genesis 3:24; John 2:16
  15. 17 Ezekiel 28:5; James 4:6; Proverbs 16:18; Ezekiel 31:10; Ezekiel 28:2
  16. 18 Malachi 4:3; Revelation 18:8; Amos 1:9–10; Ezekiel 28:16; Ezekiel 28:2
  17. 19 Ezekiel 26:21; Revelation 18:15–19; Revelation 18:21; Isaiah 14:16–19; Ezekiel 27:35–36
  18. 21 Ezekiel 6:2; Genesis 10:15; Ezekiel 25:2; Jeremiah 25:22; Ezekiel 27:8
  19. 22 Ezekiel 39:13; Ezekiel 20:41; Exodus 14:4; Ezekiel 30:19; Exodus 14:17
  20. 23 Ezekiel 38:22; Ezekiel 25:11; Jeremiah 15:2; Ezekiel 5:12; Ezekiel 26:6
  21. 24 Numbers 33:55; Joshua 23:13; 2 Corinthians 12:7; Isaiah 55:13; Ezekiel 2:6
  22. 25 Jeremiah 32:37; Ezekiel 20:41; Jeremiah 23:8; Ezekiel 37:25; Ezekiel 11:17
  23. 26 Ezekiel 28:24; Ezekiel 28:22; Amos 9:13–14; Ezekiel 34:25–28; Jeremiah 32:15

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

How these were chosen

“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Quotes verse 28:25 Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies (Book V, Chapters XXVII–XXVIII)

    … houses, and plant vineyards, and dwell in hope, when I shall cause judgment to fall among all who have dishonoured them, among those who encircle them round about; and they shall know that I am the Lord their God, and the God of their fathers." Now I have shown a short time ago that the church is the seed of …

    Read in context · Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1 (1885)

  2. Quotes verse 28:13 Augustine of Hippo, The City of God (Book XI, Chapters 14–18)

    … what Isaiah says when he represents the devil under the person of the king of Babylon, "How art thou fallen, O Lucifer, son of the morning!" or what Ezekiel says, "Thou hast been in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering," where it is meant that he was some time without sin; for a little after …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)

  3. Quotes verse 28:12–17 Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures (Lecture II)

    And this is not my teaching, but that of the inspired prophet Ezekiel: for he takes up a lamentation over him and says, Thou wast a seal of likeness, and a crown of beauty; in the Paradise of God wast thou born: and soon after, Thou wast born blameless in thy days, from the day in which thou wast …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)