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Ezekiel 28:17

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Your heart was exalted because of your beauty. You corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor. I threw you down to the earth. Before kings I set you up as a spectacle.

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Adonai upholds the humble. He brings the wicked to the ground.

Surely You put them in slippery places. You hurled them down to destruction.

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

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

He will level your high-fortified walls, lay them low, and cast them down to the ground, down to dust.

For He humbles those dwelling on high, leveling the lofty city, leveling it to the ground, bringing it down to the dust.

The wise men will be put to shame— shattered, trapped. Look! They have rejected Adonai’s word, so what wisdom do they have?

They will set your houses on fire and execute judgment on you in the sight of many women. So I will cause you to stop your harlotry. You will never again pay for a lover.

But it was uprooted in fury. It was cast down to the ground. The east wind dried up its fruit. Its strong branches were broken off and dried up—fire consumed it.

So I will make obscenity cease from the land, that all women may be taught not to imitate your obscenity.

Then all the princes of the sea will come down from their thrones. They will cast aside their robes. They will take off their richly woven garments; they will clothe themselves with trembling; they will sit on the ground. They will tremble every moment and be appalled at you.

Say to Tyre, dwelling at the entrance of the sea, the merchant to the people of many coastlands, thus says Adonai Elohim: ‘Tyre, you said: “I am perfect in beauty!’

Your borders are in the heart of the seas, your builders perfected your beauty.

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

“Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, thus says Adonai Elohim: ‘So your heart is exalted and you say, “I am a god! I sit in the seat of the gods in the heart of the seas!” Yet you are human, not a god, even if you set up your heart like the heart of a god.

In your great skill, by your trade, you have increased your wealth, so your heart is exalted by your wealth.’”

behold, I will bring strangers against you, the ruthless of the nations. They will draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom. They will defile your splendor.

Therefore thus says Adonai Elohim: “Because you were exalted in height —its top set up among leafy branches, its heart haughty in its height—

I will make many people appalled at you. Their kings will be totally aghast at you when I brandish My sword over you. They will shudder every moment, every man for his own life, on the day of your downfall.”

But when the army is carried off, the heart of the king of the south will become arrogant, and will slaughter thousands and thousands, yet he will not prevail.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”

But He gives greater grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”




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