Ezekiel 28:17 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁷ Your heart was proud because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor. I cast you to the ground; I exposed you before kings, to feast their eyes on you.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ Your heart was proud and lifted up because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor. I cast you to the ground; I lay you before kings, that they might gaze at you.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ Thy heart was lifted up because of thy beauty; thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I have cast thee to the ground; I have laid thee before kings, that they may behold thee.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ You exalted yourself because of your beauty and corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor. I will cast you down to the earth in the sight of kings, and I will make a spectacle of you.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ And your heart was exalted by your beauty; you have destroyed your own wisdom by your beauty. I have cast you to the ground. I have presented you before the face of kings, so that they may examine you.

Ezekiel 28:17 Cross References

Psalm 147:6

The Lord lifts up the downtrodden; he casts the wicked to the ground.

Psalm 73:18

Truly you set them in slippery places; you make them fall to ruin.

Proverbs 11:2

When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but wisdom is with the humble.

Proverbs 16:18

Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.

Isaiah 25:12

The high fortifications of his walls will be brought down, laid low, cast to the ground, even to the dust.

Isaiah 26:5

For he has brought low the inhabitants of the height; the lofty city he lays low. He lays it low to the ground, casts it to the dust.

Jeremiah 8:9

The wise shall be put to shame; they shall be dismayed and taken; since they have rejected the word of the Lord, what wisdom is in them?

Ezekiel 16:41

They shall burn your houses and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women; I will stop you from prostituting yourself, and you shall also make no more payments.

Ezekiel 19:12

But it was plucked up in fury, cast down to the ground; the east wind dried it up; its fruit was stripped off; its strong stem was withered; the fire consumed it.

Ezekiel 23:48

Thus will I put an end to lewdness in the land, so that all women may take warning and not commit lewdness as you have done.

Ezekiel 26:16

Then all the princes of the sea shall step down from their thrones; they shall remove their robes and strip off their embroidered garments. They shall clothe themselves with trembling and shall sit on the ground; they shall tremble every moment and be appalled at you.

Ezekiel 27:3

and say to Tyre, which sits at the entrance to the sea, merchant of the peoples on many coastlands: Thus says the Lord God: O Tyre, you have said, “I am perfect in beauty.”

Ezekiel 27:4

Your borders are in the heart of the seas; your builders made perfect your beauty.

Ezekiel 28:15

You were blameless in your ways from the day that you were created, until iniquity was found in you.

Ezekiel 28:2

Mortal, say to the prince of Tyre: Thus says the Lord God: Because your heart is proud and you have said, “I am a god; I sit in the seat of the gods, in the heart of the seas,” yet you are but a mortal and no god, though you compare your mind with the mind of a god.

Ezekiel 28:5

By your great wisdom in trade you have increased your wealth, and your heart has become proud in your wealth.

Ezekiel 28:7

therefore, I will bring strangers against you, the most terrible of the nations; they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom and defile your splendor.

Ezekiel 31:10

Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because it towered high and set its top among the clouds and its heart was proud of its height,

Ezekiel 32:10

I will make many peoples appalled at you; their kings shall shudder because of you. When I brandish my sword before them, they shall tremble every moment for their lives, each one of them, on the day of your downfall.

Daniel 11:12

When the multitude has been carried off, his heart shall be exalted, and he shall overthrow tens of thousands, but he shall not prevail.

Luke 14:11

For all who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”

James 4:6

But God gives all the more grace; therefore it says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”