Ezekiel 28

New Catholic Bible

Your heart has grown proud,
    and thus you say, “I am a god;
I sit on a godly throne
    in the heart of the seas.”
But in reality you are a man, and not a god,
    even though you compare your mind
    with that of a god.
³ Are you as wise as Daniel?
    Is no secret hidden from you?
⁴ By your wisdom and your intelligence,
    you have amassed great wealth for yourself.
You have deposited gold and silver
    into your treasuries.
⁵ Because of your skill in trading,
    your wealth has greatly increased;
and as a result of your riches,
    your heart is filled with arrogant pride.

Because you consider your wisdom
    to be equal to that of God,
⁷ I will bring foreigners against you,
    the most barbarous of all the nations.
They will draw their swords
    against the beauty of your wisdom
    and defile your splendor.
⁸ They will hurl you down to the pit,
    and you will die a violent death
    in the heart of the seas.
⁹ Will you then still say, “I am a god,”
    when your murderers confront you?
No, you are a man, not a god,
    in the hands of those about to slay you.
¹⁰ You will die the death of the uncircumcised
    at the hands of foreigners.

At one time, you were a model of perfection,
    full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.
¹³ You were in Eden, the garden of God,
    and adorned with every precious stone:
ruby, topaz, and emerald,
    chrysolite, onyx, and jasper,
    sapphire, turquoise, and jade.
Your settings and mountings were made of gold;
    on the day you were created, they were made.
¹⁴ I appointed a cherub as your guardian;
    you were on the holy mountain of God,
    walking amid the fiery stones.
¹⁵ You were blameless in your behavior
    from the day you were created,
    until iniquity first appeared in you.
¹⁶ As a result of your abundant trade,
    you became filled with violence, and you sinned.
Therefore, I cast you down in disgrace
    from the mountain of God,
and the guardian cherub drove you out
    from among the fiery stones.
¹⁷ Your heart had grown proud
    because of your beauty,
and for the sake of your splendor,
    you corrupted your wisdom.
I flung you to the earth,
    so great was your guilt,
and I made you a spectacle to behold
    in the sight of kings.
¹⁸ Because of the immense number of your crimes
    and your dishonesty in business,
    you profaned our sanctuaries.
Therefore, I have brought forth fire from your midst,
    and I allowed it to devour you.
I have reduced you to ashes on the ground
    for everyone to behold.
¹⁹ All of the nations who knew you
    were aghast at your fate.
You have come to a hideous end,
    and you will be no more.

I am against you, O Sidon,
    and I will show my glory in your midst.
Then people will know that I am the Lord
    when I inflict punishments on her
    and manifest my holiness in her.
²³ For I will send a plague upon her,
    and there will be bloodshed in her streets.
And the dead shall fall in her midst
    by the sword raised against her from all sides;
    then they will know that I am the Lord.