28:1  THE WORD of the Lord came again to me, saying,

28:2  Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord God: Because your heart is lifted up and you have said {and} thought, I am a god, I sit in the seat of the gods, in the heart of the seas; yet you are only man [weak, feeble, made of earth] and not God, though you imagine yourself to be almost more than mortal with your mind as the mind of God;

28:3  Indeed, you are [imagining yourself] wiser than Daniel; there is no secret [you think] that is hidden from you;

28:4  With your own wisdom and with your own understanding you have gotten you riches {and} power and have brought gold and silver into your treasuries;

28:5  By your great wisdom and by your traffic you have increased your riches {and} power, and your heart is proud {and} lifted up because of your wealth;

28:6  Therefore thus says the Lord God: Because you have imagined your mind as the mind of God [having thoughts and purposes suitable only to God Himself],

28:7  Behold therefore, I am bringing strangers upon you, the most terrible of the nations, and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom [O Tyre], and they shall defile your splendor.

28:8  They shall bring you down to the pit [of destruction] and you shall die the [many] deaths of all the Tyrians that are slain in the heart of the seas.

28:9  Will you still say, I am a god, before him who slays you? But you are only a man [made of earth] and no god in the hand of him who wounds {and} profanes you.

28:10  You shall die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers, for I have spoken it, says the Lord God.

28:11  Moreover, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

28:12  Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre and say to him, Thus says the Lord God: You are the full measure {and} pattern of exactness [giving the finishing touch to all that constitutes completeness], full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.

28:13  You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was your covering, the carnelian, topaz, jasper, chrysolite, beryl, onyx, sapphire, carbuncle, and emerald; and your settings and your sockets {and} engravings were wrought in gold. On the day that you were created they were prepared.

28:14  You were the anointed cherub that covers with overshadowing [wings], and I set you so. You were upon the holy mountain of God; you walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire [like the paved work of gleaming sapphire stone upon which the God of Israel walked on Mount Sinai].

28:15  You were blameless in your ways from the day you were created until iniquity {and} guilt were found in you.

28:16  Through the abundance of your commerce you were filled with lawlessness {and} violence, and you sinned; therefore I cast you out as a profane thing from the mountain of God and the guardian cherub drove you out from the midst of the stones of fire.

28:17  Your heart was proud {and} lifted up because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor. I cast you to the ground; I lay you before kings, that they might gaze at you.

28:18  You have profaned your sanctuaries by the multitude of your iniquities {and} the enormity of your guilt, by the unrighteousness of your trade. Therefore I have brought forth a fire from your midst; it has consumed you, and I have reduced you to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all who looked at you.

28:19  All who know you among the people are astonished and appalled at you; you have come to a horrible end and shall never return to being.

28:20  Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

28:21  Son of man, set your face toward Sidon and prophesy against her.

28:22  And say, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against you, O Sidon, and I will show forth My glory {and} be glorified in the midst of you. And they shall know (understand and realize) that I am the Lord when I execute judgments {and} punishments in her, and am set apart {and} separated {and} My holiness is manifested in her.

28:23  For I will send pestilence into her and blood into her streets, and the wounded shall be judged {and} fall by the sword in the midst of her on every side, and they shall know (understand and realize) that I am the Lord [the Sovereign Ruler, Who calls forth loyalty and obedient service].

28:24  And there shall be no more a brier to prick the house of Israel or a hurting thorn of all those around them who have treated them with contempt, and they shall know (understand and realize) that I am the Lord God [the Sovereign Ruler, Who calls forth loyalty and obedient service].

28:25  Thus says the Lord God: When I gather the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered, and I shall be set apart {and} separated {and} My holiness made apparent in them in the sight of the nations, then shall they dwell in their own land which I gave to My servant Jacob.

28:26  And they shall dwell safely in it and shall build houses and plant vineyards; yes, they shall dwell securely {and} with confidence when I have executed judgments {and} punishments upon all those round about them who have despised {and} trodden upon them {and} pushed them away, and they shall know (understand and realize) that I am the Lord their God [their Sovereign Ruler, Who calls forth loyalty and obedient service].