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What does Ezekiel 28:5 mean?
"by your great wisdom and by your trading you have increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches—”"
— Ezekiel 28:5 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
“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.
They will bring you down to the pit. You will die the death of those who are slain in the heart of the seas.
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