Ezekiel 28:1-10

Revised Standard Version

“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—
³ you are indeed wiser than Daniel;
    no secret is hidden from you;
⁴ by your wisdom and your understanding
    you have gotten wealth for yourself,
and have gathered gold and silver
    into your treasuries;
⁵ by your great wisdom in trade
    you have increased your wealth,
    and your heart has become proud in your wealth—
⁶ therefore thus says the Lord God:
“Because you consider yourself
    as wise as a god,
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.
⁸ They shall thrust you down into the Pit,
    and you shall die the death of the slain
    in the heart of the seas.
⁹ Will you still say, ‘I am a god,’
    in the presence of those who slay you,
though you are but a man, and no god,
    in the hands of those who wound you?
¹⁰ You shall die the death of the uncircumcised
    by the hand of foreigners;
    for I have spoken, says the Lord God.”