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Aram traded with you, because you were so wealthy; for your goods they exchanged green feldspar, purple stuff, embroidery, fine linen, coral and rubies.

Because you were so wealthy, with such a variety of valuable merchandise, Dammesek traded wine from Helbon and white wool with you.

"Human being, tell the prince of Tzor that Adonai Elohim says: ‘Because you are so proud and have said, "I am a god; I sit on the throne of God, surrounded by the sea"; yet you are a man, not God, even though you think that you think like God.

By your great skill in trading you have increased your wealth, and it is because of your wealth that you have become so proud.

"Therefore Adonai Elohim says, ‘Because you think that you think like God,

Your heart grew proud because of your beauty, you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor. But I have thrown you on the ground; before kings I have made you a spectacle.

Then all who live in Egypt will know that I am Adonai , because they have been a support made of straw for the house of Isra'el.

The land of Egypt will become a desolate waste, and they will know that I am Adonai ; because he said, "The Nile is mine; I made it."

I am giving him the land of Egypt as his wages for which he worked, because they were working for me,' says Adonai Elohim .

It was beautiful in its greatness and the length of its branches, because its roots went down to plenty of water.

"Therefore here is what Adonai Elohim says: ‘Because you are so tall, because he has lifted his crown above the leafy boughs, because he has grown so arrogant about his height,

"Here is what Adonai Elohim says: ‘On the day he descended to Sh'ol, I caused the abyss to mourn and cover itself for him; I held back its rivers, so that its deep waters were stopped. I made the L'vanon mourn for him, and all the field trees withered because of him.

They have given her a bed among the slain with her hordes; her graves are all around them, all of them uncircumcised, killed by the sword, because they terrorized the land of the living; they bear their shame with those who descended to the pit; they are put among those who were slain.

"Meshekh and Tuval with her horde is there, her graves are all around them, all of them uncircumcised, killed by the sword, because they terrorized the land of the living.

They do not lie with the fallen warriors of the uncircumcised who descended to Sh'ol with their weapons of war, their swords laid under their heads, and their crimes upon their bones; because these warriors terrorized the land of the living.

"Therefore, you, human being, say to the house of Isra'el: ‘You say, "Our crimes and sins are weighing us down, we're pining away because of them, how can we even stay alive?"'

When the righteous person turns away from his righteousness and commits wickedness, he will die because of it.

And when the wicked person turns from his wickedness and does what is lawful and right, he will live because of it.

Then they will know that I am Adonai , when I have made the land utterly desolate, because of all the disgusting practices they have committed.

"As I live," Adonai Elohim swears, "because my sheep have become prey, my sheep have become food for every wild animal, since there was no shepherd, since my shepherds didn't look for my sheep, and instead my shepherds fed themselves but not my sheep,"