Ezekiel 28:4

Amplified Bible

With your [own] wisdom and with your [own] understanding You have acquired your riches and power And have brought gold and silver into your treasuries;

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
By your wisdom and understanding you have acquired wealth for yourself. You have acquired gold and silver for your treasuries.

Hebrew Names Version
by your wisdom and by your understanding you have gotten you riches, and have gotten gold and silver into your treasures;

King James Version
With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures:

English Standard Version
by your wisdom and your understanding you have made wealth for yourself, and have gathered gold and silver into your treasuries;

New American Standard Bible
"By your wisdom and understanding You have acquired riches for yourself And have acquired gold and silver for your treasuries.

New Century Version
Through your wisdom and understanding you have made yourself rich. You have gained gold and silver and have saved it in your storerooms.

World English Bible
by your wisdom and by your understanding you have gotten you riches, and have gotten gold and silver into your treasures;

Geneva Bible (1587)
With thy wisedome and thine vnderstanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten golde and siluer into thy treasures.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"By your wisdom and understanding You have acquired riches for yourself And have acquired gold and silver for your treasuries.

Legacy Standard Bible
By your wisdom and understandingYou have acquired wealth for yourselfAnd have acquired gold and silver for your treasuries.

Berean Standard Bible
By your wisdom and understanding you have gained your wealth and amassed gold and silver for your treasuries.

Contemporary English Version
Your wisdom has certainly made you rich, because you have storehouses filled with gold and silver.

Complete Jewish Bible
By your wisdom and discernment you have acquired wealth, you have gathered gold and silver into your treasuries.

Darby Translation
by thy wisdom and by thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures;

Easy-to-Read Version
Through your wisdom and understanding you have gotten riches for yourself. And you put gold and silver in your treasuries.

George Lamsa Translation
With your understanding you have become powerful, and have gotten silver and gold into your treasures;

Good News Translation
Your wisdom and skill made you rich with treasures of gold and silver.

Lexham English Bible
By your wisdom and by your understanding you have gained for yourself wealth, and you have amassed gold and silver in your treasuries.

Literal Translation
With your wisdom and with your understanding you have made riches for yourself, and have worked gold and silver into your treasuries.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
With thy wi?dome & thy vnderstodinge, thou hast gotte the greate welthynesse, and gathered treasure of syluer & golde.

American Standard Version
by thy wisdom and by thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures;

Bible in Basic English
By your wisdom and deep knowledge you have got power for yourself, and put silver and gold in your store-houses:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
By thy wisdom and by thy discernment thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures;

King James Version (1611)
With thy wisedome and with thine vnderstanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and siluer into thy treasures.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
With thy wisdome and thine vnderstanding thou hast gotten thee great welthines, & gathered treasure of siluer & gold.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Hast thou gained power for thyself by thine own knowledge or thine own prudence, and gotten gold and silver in thy treasures?

English Revised Version
by thy wisdom and by thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures:

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
in thi wisdom and prudence thou madist to thee strengthe, and thou gatist to thee gold and siluer in thi tresouris;

Update Bible Version
by your wisdom and by your understanding you have gotten you riches, and have gotten gold and silver into your treasures;

Webster's Bible Translation
With thy wisdom and with thy understanding thou hast gained for thee riches, and hast gained gold and silver into thy treasures:

New English Translation
By your wisdom and understanding you have gained wealth for yourself; you have amassed gold and silver in your treasuries.

New King James Version
With your wisdom and your understanding You have gained riches for yourself, And gathered gold and silver into your treasuries;

New Living Translation
With your wisdom and understanding you have amassed great wealth— gold and silver for your treasuries.

New Life Bible
By your wisdom and understanding you have gathered riches for yourself. You have gathered gold and silver for your store-houses.

New Revised Standard
by your wisdom and your understanding you have amassed wealth for yourself, and have gathered gold and silver into your treasuries.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
In thy wisdom and in thine understanding, hast thou gotten thee wealth, - And hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasuries:

Douay-Rheims Bible
In thy wisdom and thy understanding thou hast made thyself strong: and hast gotten gold an silver into thy treasures.

Revised Standard Version
by your wisdom and your understanding you have gotten wealth for yourself, and have gathered gold and silver into your treasuries;

Young's Literal Translation
By thy wisdom and by thine understanding Thou hast made for thee wealth, And makest gold and silver in thy treasuries.

Contextual Overview

¹The word of the LORD came again to me, saying, ²"Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Because your heart is lifted up And you have said and thought, 'I am a god, I sit in the seat of the gods In the heart of the seas'; Yet you are [only] a man [weak, feeble, made of earth] and not God, Though you [imagine yourself to be more than mortal and] think your mind is as [wise as] the mind of God— ³Behold, you are [imagining yourself] wiser than Daniel; There is no secret [you think] that is hidden from you; ⁴With your [own] wisdom and with your [own] understanding You have acquired your riches and power And have brought gold and silver into your treasuries;⁵By your great wisdom and by your trade You have increased your riches and power, And your heart is proud and arrogant because of your wealth; ⁶Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, 'Because you have imagined your mind [to be] Like the mind of God [having thoughts and plans like God Himself], ⁷Therefore, behold, I will bring strangers (Babylonians) upon you, The most ruthless and violent of the nations. And they will draw their swords Against the beauty of your wisdom [O Tyre] And defile your splendor. ⁸'They will bring you down to the pit [of destruction], And you will die the death of all those who die In the heart of the seas. ⁹'Will you still say, "I am a god," In the presence of him who kills you? But you are [only] a man [made of earth] and not God, In the hands of those who wound and profane you. ¹⁰'You will die the death of the uncircumcised [barbarian] By the hand of strangers, For I have spoken!' says the Lord GOD."'"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Ezekiel 29:3, Deuteronomy 8:17, Deuteronomy 8:18, Proverbs 18:11, Proverbs 23:4, Proverbs 23:5, Ecclesiastes 9:11, Habakkuk 1:16, Zechariah 9:2-4

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 17:9 - and shall be Psalms 49:6 - boast Isaiah 23:3 - she is Jeremiah 49:4 - trusted Zechariah 9:3 - heaped Mark 10:24 - trust

Cross-References

Genesis 12:7
Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, "I will give this land to your descendants." So Abram built an altar there to [honor] the LORD who had appeared to him.

Genesis 28:1
So Isaac called Jacob and blessed him and charged him, and said to him, "You shall not marry one of the women of Canaan.

Genesis 28:3
"May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, so that you may become a [great] company of peoples.

Genesis 28:5
Then Isaac sent Jacob away, and he went to Paddan-aram, to Laban, son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, the mother of Jacob and Esau.

Genesis 28:6
Now Esau noticed that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan-aram to take a wife for himself from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a prohibition, saying, "You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan,"

Genesis 28:7
and that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother and had gone to Paddan-aram.

Genesis 28:8
So Esau realized that [his two wives] the daughters of Canaan displeased Isaac his father;

Genesis 28:9
and [to appease his parents] Esau went to [the family of] Ishmael and took as his wife, in addition to the wives he [already] had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham's son, the sister of Nebaioth [Ishmael's firstborn son].

Genesis 28:12
He dreamed that there was a ladder (stairway) placed on the earth, and the top of it reached [out of sight] toward heaven; and [he saw] the angels of God ascending and descending on it [going to and from heaven].

Genesis 28:13
And behold, the LORD stood above and around him and said, "I am the LORD, the God of Abraham your [father's] father and the God of Isaac; I will give to you and to your descendants the land [of promise] on which you are lying.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

With thy wisdom and with thy understanding thou hast gotten thee riches,.... Through skill in navigation and trade, for which the Tyrians and their princes were famous, they acquired great wealth: so antichrist, by carnal policy, and hellish subtlety, has amassed vast treasures together; the sale of pardons and indulgences has brought immense riches into the pope's coffers:

and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures; in great quantities; see Revelation 18:3.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The prophecy against the prince of Tyre. Throughout the east the majesty and glory of a people were collected in the person of their monarch, who in some nations was worshipped as a god. The prince is here the embodiment of the community. Their glory is his glory, their pride his pride. The doom of Tyre could not be complete without denunciation of the prince of Tyre. Idolatrous nations and idolatrous kings were, in the eyes of the prophet, antagonists to the true God. In them was embodied the principle of evil opposing itself to the divine government of the world. Hence, some of the fathers saw upon the throne, not simply a hostile monarch, but “the Prince of this world, spiritual wickedness (or wicked spirits) in high places.” Whenever evil in any way domineers over good, there is a “prince of Tyrus,” against whom God utters His voice. The “mystery of iniquity is ever working, and in that working we recognize the power of Satan whom God condemns and will destroy.

Ezekiel 28:2

Thou hast said, I am a god - Compare Ezekiel 29:3; Daniel 4:30; Acts 12:22; 2 Thessalonians 2:4.

I sit in the seat of God - Words denoting the speaker’s pride; but the situation of the island-city, full of beauty, in the midst of the blue water of the Mediterranean, gives force to the expression. Compare the words describing the lot of Tyre as having been in Eden Ezekiel 28:13.

Thou art a man - Rather, thou art man.

Ezekiel 28:3

Thou art wiser than Daniel - The passage is one of strong irony. Compare Ezekiel 14:14; Daniel 6:3.

Ezekiel 28:9

But thou shalt be a man - Rather, yet art thou man.

Ezekiel 28:10

The uncircumcised - The pagan idolaters as opposed to the covenant-people.

The prophecy against the prince of Tyre. Throughout the east the majesty and glory of a people were collected in the person of their monarch, who in some nations was worshipped as a god. The prince is here the embodiment of the community. Their glory is his glory, their pride his pride. The doom of Tyre could not be complete without denunciation of the prince of Tyre. Idolatrous nations and idolatrous kings were, in the eyes of the prophet, antagonists to the true God. In them was embodied the principle of evil opposing itself to the divine government of the world. Hence, some of the fathers saw upon the throne, not simply a hostile monarch, but “the Prince of this world, spiritual wickedness (or wicked spirits) in high places.” Whenever evil in any way domineers over good, there is a “prince of Tyrus,” against whom God utters His voice. The “mystery of iniquity is ever working, and in that working we recognize the power of Satan whom God condemns and will destroy.

Ezekiel 28:2

Thou hast said, I am a god - Compare Ezekiel 29:3; Daniel 4:30; Acts 12:22; 2 Thessalonians 2:4.

I sit in the seat of God - Words denoting the speaker’s pride; but the situation of the island-city, full of beauty, in the midst of the blue water of the Mediterranean, gives force to the expression. Compare the words describing the lot of Tyre as having been in Eden Ezekiel 28:13.

Thou art a man - Rather, thou art man.

Ezekiel 28:3

Thou art wiser than Daniel - The passage is one of strong irony. Compare Ezekiel 14:14; Daniel 6:3.

Ezekiel 28:9

But thou shalt be a man - Rather, yet art thou man.

Ezekiel 28:10

The uncircumcised - The pagan idolaters as opposed to the covenant-people.