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"Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre, ‘Thus says Lord Yahweh,"Because your heart is loftyAnd you have said, ‘I am a god;I sit enthroned in the seat of godsIn the heart of the seas';Yet you are a man and not God,Although you make your heart like the heart of God—

By your great wisdom, by your tradeYou have increased your wealth,And your heart is lofty because of your wealth—

Therefore thus says Lord Yahweh,‘Because you have made your heartLike the heart of God,

Your heart was lofty because of your beauty;You corrupted your wisdom by reason of your splendor.I cast you to the ground;I put you before kings,That they may see you.

The land of Egypt will become a desolation and waste. Then they will know that I am Yahweh. Because you said, ‘The Nile is mine, and I have made it,'

I have given him the land of Egypt for his work which he labored because they acted for Me," declares Lord Yahweh.

‘Therefore thus says Lord Yahweh, "Because it is lofty in height and has put its top among the clouds, and its heart is high up in its loftiness,

Now as for you, son of man, say to the sons of your people, ‘The righteousness of a righteous man will not deliver him in the day of his transgression, and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he will not stumble because of it in the day when he turns from his wickedness; whereas a righteous man will not be able to live by his righteousness on the day when he commits sin.'

Then they will know that I am Yahweh, when I make the land a desolation and a desecration because of all their abominations which they have done."'

"As I live," declares Lord Yahweh, "surely because My flock has become plunder, My flock has even become food for all the beasts of the field for lack of a shepherd, and My shepherds did not seek for My flock, but rather the shepherds shepherded themselves and did not shepherd My flock;

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

Because you have had everlasting enmity and have delivered the sons of Israel to the power of the sword at the time of their disaster, at the time of the punishment of the end,

"Because you have said, ‘These two nations and these two lands will be mine, and we will possess them,' although Yahweh was there,

therefore as I live," declares Lord Yahweh, "I will deal with you according to your anger and according to your jealousy which you dealt with them because of your hatred against them; so I will make Myself known among them when I judge you.

As you delighted over the inheritance of the house of Israel because it was desolate, so I will do to you. You will be a desolation, O Mount Seir, and all Edom, all of it. Then they will know that I am Yahweh."'

Thus says Lord Yahweh, "Because the enemy has spoken against you, ‘Aha!' and, ‘The everlasting heights have become our possession,'

Therefore prophesy concerning the land of Israel and say to the mountains and to the hills, to the ravines and to the valleys, "Thus says Lord Yahweh, ‘Behold, I have spoken in My jealousy and in My wrath because you have borne the dishonor of the nations.'

"Thus says Lord Yahweh, ‘Because they say to you, "You are a devourer of men and have bereaved your nation of children,"

Therefore I poured out My wrath on them for the blood which they had shed on the land, because they had defiled it with their idols.

Then they came to the nations to which they came. And they profaned My holy name because it was said of them, ‘These are the people of Yahweh; yet they have come out of His land.'