Ezekiel 28:17

Revised Standard Version

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.

Cross References

Psalm 147:6

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

Psalm 73:18

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

Proverbs 11:2

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

Proverbs 16:18

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

Isaiah 25:12

And the high fortifications of his walls he will bring down, lay low, and 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 it low, lays it low to the ground, casts it to the dust.

Jeremiah 8:9

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

Ezekiel 16:41

And they shall burn your houses and execute judgments upon you in the sight of many women; I will make you stop playing the harlot, and you shall also give hire no more.

Ezekiel 19:12

But the vine 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, that all women may take warning and not commit lewdness as you have done.

Ezekiel 26:16

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

Ezekiel 27:3

and say to Tyre, who dwells 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 you were created, till iniquity was found in you.

Ezekiel 28:2

“Son of man, 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 man, and no god, though you consider yourself as wise as 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, behold, I will bring strangers upon you, the most terrible of the nations; and 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, and their kings shall shudder because of you, when I brandish my sword before them; they shall tremble every moment, every one for his own life, on the day of your downfall.

Daniel 11:12

And when the multitude is taken, his heart shall be exalted, and he shall cast down tens of thousands, but he shall not prevail.

Luke 14:11

For every one who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

James 4:6

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