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Ezekiel 28:17 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty. You have corrupted your wisdom by reason of your splendor. I have cast you to the ground. I have laid you before kings, that they may see you. "
Ezekiel 28:17
Verse in Context
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15 You were perfect in your ways from the day that you were created, until unrighteousness was found in you.
16 By the abundance of your commerce, your insides were filled with violence, and you have sinned. Therefore I have cast you as profane out of God’s mountain. I have destroyed you, covering cherub, from the middle of the stones of fire.
17 Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty. You have corrupted your wisdom by reason of your splendor. I have cast you to the ground. I have laid you before kings, that they may see you.
18 By the multitude of your iniquities, in the unrighteousness of your commerce, you have profaned your sanctuaries. Therefore I have brought out a fire from the middle of you. It has devoured you. I have turned you to ashes on the earth in the sight of all those who see you.
19 All those who know you among the peoples will be astonished at you. You have become a terror, and you will exist no more.”’”
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Ezekiel 28:1
"The LORD’s word came again to me, saying,"
Ezekiel 28:2
"“Son of man, tell the prince of Tyre, ‘The Lord GOD says: “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 no god, though you set your heart as the heart of a god—"
Ezekiel 28:3
"behold, you are wiser than Daniel. There is no secret that is hidden from you."
Ezekiel 28:4
"By your wisdom and by your understanding you have gotten yourself riches, and have gotten gold and silver into your treasuries."
Ezekiel 28:5
"By your great wisdom and by your trading you have increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches—”"
Ezekiel 28:6
"“‘therefore the Lord GOD says: “Because you have set your heart as the heart of God,"
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