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The word of the LORD came again to me, saying,

The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying,

"Son of man, say to the leader of Tyre, 'The Lord GOD says this: "Because your heart is haughty And you have said, 'I am a god, I sit in the seat of gods In the heart of the seas'; Yet you are a mortal and not God, Although you make your heart like the heart of God—

Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord God ; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God:

Behold, you are wiser than Daniel; There is no secret that is a match for you!

Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee:

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

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

"By your great wisdom, by your trade You have increased your riches, And your heart is haughty because of your riches—

By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:

Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: 'Because you have made your heart Like the heart of God,

Therefore thus saith the Lord God ; Because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God;

Therefore, behold, I am going to bring strangers against you, The most ruthless of the nations. And they will draw their swords Against the beauty of your wisdom And profane your splendor.

Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness.

'They will bring you down to the pit, And you will die the death of those who are killed In the heart of the seas.

They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas.

'Will you still say, "I am a god," In the presence of one who kills you, Though you are a mortal and not God, In the hands of those who wound you?

Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but thou shalt be a man, and no God, in the hand of him that slayeth thee.

'You will die the death of the uncircumcised By the hand of strangers, For I have spoken!' declares the Lord GOD!"'"

Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God .