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Son of man, say to the leader of Tyre, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet you are man, and not God, though you set your heart as the heart of God;-

by your great wisdom [and] by your traffic you have increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches;-

therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have set your heart as the heart of God,

Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; you have corrupted your wisdom by reason of your brightness: I have cast you to the ground; I have laid you before kings, that they may look at you.

And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am Yahweh, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.

And the land of Egypt shall be a desolation and a waste; and they shall know that I am Yahweh. Because he has said, The river is mine, and I have made it;

I have given him the land of Egypt as his recompense for which he served, because they wrought for me, says the Lord Yahweh.

Therefore thus said the Lord Yahweh: Because you are exalted in stature, and he has set his top to [reach] among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;

Then they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have made the land a desolation and an astonishment, because of all the disgusting things that they have done.

And they were scattered, because there was no shepherd; and they became food to all the beasts of the field, and were scattered.

As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, surely since my sheep became a prey, and my sheep became food to all the beasts of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my sheep, but the shepherds fed themselves, and didn't feed my sheep;

Because you thrust with side and with shoulder, and push all the diseased with your horns, until you have scattered them abroad;

Because you have had a perpetual enmity, and have given over the sons of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end;

Because you have said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas Yahweh was there:

As you rejoiced over the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so I will do to you: you shall be desolate, O mount Seir, and all Edom, even all of it; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.

Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because the enemy has said against you, Aha! and, The ancient high places are ours in possession;

therefore prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because, even because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that you might be a possession to the residue of the nations, and you are taken up in the lips of talkers, and the evil report of the people;

Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains and to the hills, to the watercourses and to the valleys, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Look, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my wrath, because you have borne the shame of the nations:

Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because they say to you, You [land] are a devourer of man, and have been a bereaver of your nation;

Therefore I poured out my wrath on them for the blood which they had poured out on the land, and because they had defiled it with their idols;