Ezekiel 28:9 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁹ Will you still say, “I am a god,” in the presence of those who kill you, though you are but a mortal and no god, in the hands of those who pierce you?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ Will you still say, I am a god, before him who slays you? But you are only a man [made of earth] and no god in the hand of him who wounds and profanes you.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but thou art man, and not God, in the hand of him that woundeth thee.

Common English Bible

⁹ When you face your murderers, will you still say, “I’m God”? In your killers’ hands, you are mortal, not divine.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ So then, will you speak, in the presence of those who are destroying you, before the hand of those who are killing you, saying, 'I am God,' though you are a man, and not God?

Ezekiel 28:9 Cross References

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.

Isaiah 31:3

The Egyptians are human and not God; their horses are flesh and not spirit. When the Lord stretches out his hand, the helper will stumble, and the one helped will fall, and they will all perish together.

Psalm 82:7

nevertheless, you shall die like mortals and fall like any prince.”

Ezekiel 16:49

This was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease but did not aid the poor and needy.

Ezekiel 28:8

They shall thrust you down to the Pit, and you shall die a violent death in the heart of the seas.

Ezekiel 28:10

You shall die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of foreigners, for I have spoken, says the Lord God.

Zephaniah 2:15

Is this the exultant city that lived secure, that said to itself, “I am, and there is no one else”? What a desolation it has become, a lair for wild animals! Everyone who passes by it hisses and shakes the fist.