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What does Ezekiel 28:4 mean?
"by your wisdom and by your understanding you have gotten yourself riches, and have gotten gold and silver into your treasures;"
— Ezekiel 28:4 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
Yahweh’s word came again to me, saying,
“Son of man, tell the prince of Tyre, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, ‘I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the middle of the seas;’ yet you are man, and not God, though you set your heart as the heart of God—
behold, you are wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that is hidden from you;
by your wisdom and by your understanding you have gotten yourself riches, and have gotten gold and silver into your treasures;
by your great wisdom and by your trading you have increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches—”
“‘therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Because you have set your heart as the heart of God,
therefore, behold, I will bring strangers on you, the terrible of the nations. They will draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom. They will defile your brightness.
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