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I sit on the throne of a god in the heart of the seas." But you are a mere mortal and not a god, though you think you are as wise as a god.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-2.htm">2</a>“Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord GOD: “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 make your heart like the heart of a god—</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-2.htm">2</a>"Son of man, say to the leader of Tyre, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Because your heart is lifted up And you have said, 'I am a god, I sit in the seat of gods In the heart of the seas'; Yet you are a man and not God, Although you make your heart like the heart of God--</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-2.htm">2</a>Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God:</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-2.htm">2</a>Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre: This is what the Lord GOD says: Your heart is proud, and you have said, 'I am a god; I sit in the seat of gods in the heart of the sea.' Yet you are a man and not a god, though you have regarded your heart as that of a god. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-3.htm">3</a>Are you wiser than Daniel? Is no secret hidden from you?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-3.htm">3</a>you are indeed wiser than Daniel; no secret is hidden from you;</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-3.htm">3</a>Behold, you are wiser than Daniel; There is no secret that is a match for you.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-3.htm">3</a>Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee:</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-3.htm">3</a>Yes, you are wiser than Daniel; no secret is hidden from you! </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-4.htm">4</a>By your wisdom and understanding you have gained wealth for yourself and amassed gold and silver in your treasuries.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-4.htm">4</a>by your wisdom and your understanding you have made wealth for yourself, and have gathered gold and silver into your treasuries;</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-4.htm">4</a>"By your wisdom and understanding You have acquired riches for yourself And have acquired gold and silver for your treasuries.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-4.htm">4</a>With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures:</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-4.htm">4</a>By your wisdom and understanding you have acquired wealth for yourself. You have acquired gold and silver for your treasuries. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/niv/ezekiel/28.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NIV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/esv/ezekiel/28.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>ESV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/ezekiel/28.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/ezekiel/28.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/ezekiel/28.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-5.htm">5</a>By your great skill in trading you have increased your wealth, and because of your wealth your heart has grown proud.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-5.htm">5</a>by your great wisdom in your trade you have increased your wealth, and your heart has become proud in your wealth—</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-5.htm">5</a>"By your great wisdom, by your trade You have increased your riches And your heart is lifted up because of your riches--</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-5.htm">5</a>By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-5.htm">5</a>By your great skill in trading you have increased your wealth, but your heart has become proud because of your wealth." </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-6.htm">6</a>"'Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: "'Because you think you are wise, as wise as a god,</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-6.htm">6</a>therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you make your heart like the heart of a god,</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-6.htm">6</a>Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, 'Because you have made your heart Like the heart of God,</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-6.htm">6</a>Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God;</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-6.htm">6</a>Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Because you regard your heart as that of a god, </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-7.htm">7</a>I am going to bring foreigners against you, the most ruthless of nations; they will draw their swords against your beauty and wisdom and pierce your shining splendor.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-7.htm">7</a>therefore, behold, I will bring foreigners upon you, the most ruthless of the nations; and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom and defile your splendor.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-7.htm">7</a>Therefore, behold, I will bring strangers upon you, The most ruthless of the nations. And they will draw their swords Against the beauty of your wisdom And defile your splendor.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-7.htm">7</a>Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-7.htm">7</a>I am about to bring strangers against you, ruthless men from the nations. They will draw their swords against your magnificent wisdom and will defile your splendor. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-8.htm">8</a>They will bring you down to the pit, and you will die a violent death in the heart of the seas.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-8.htm">8</a>They shall thrust you down into the pit, and you shall die the death of the slain in the heart of the seas.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-8.htm">8</a>'They will bring you down to the pit, And you will die the death of those who are slain In the heart of the seas.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-8.htm">8</a>They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-8.htm">8</a>They will bring you down to the Pit, and you will die a violent death in the heart of the sea. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-9.htm">9</a>Will you then say, "I am a god," in the presence of those who kill you? You will be but a mortal, not a god, in the hands of those who slay you.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-9.htm">9</a>Will you still say, ‘I am a god,’ in the presence of those who kill you, though you are but a man, and no god, in the hands of those who slay you?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-9.htm">9</a>'Will you still say, "I am a god," In the presence of your slayer, Though you are a man and not God, In the hands of those who wound you?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-9.htm">9</a>Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but thou shalt be a man, and no God, in the hand of him that slayeth thee.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-9.htm">9</a>Will you still say, 'I am a god,' in the presence of those who kill you? Yet you will be only a man, not a god, in the hands of those who kill you. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-10.htm">10</a>You will die the death of the uncircumcised at the hands of foreigners. I have spoken, declares the Sovereign LORD.'"</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-10.htm">10</a>You shall die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of foreigners; for I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD.”</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-10.htm">10</a>'You will die the death of the uncircumcised By the hand of strangers, For I have spoken!' declares the Lord GOD!"'"</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-10.htm">10</a>Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-10.htm">10</a>You will die the death of the uncircumcised at the hands of strangers. For I have spoken. This is the declaration of the Lord GOD. </td></tr></table> A Lament over the King of Tyre<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/niv/ezekiel/28.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NIV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/esv/ezekiel/28.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>ESV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/ezekiel/28.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/ezekiel/28.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/ezekiel/28.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-11.htm">11</a>The word of the LORD came to me:</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-11.htm">11</a>Moreover, the word of the LORD came to me:</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-11.htm">11</a>Again the word of the LORD came to me saying,</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-11.htm">11</a>Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-11.htm">11</a>The word of the LORD came to me: "</td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-12.htm">12</a>"Son of man, take up a lament concerning the king of Tyre and say to him: 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: "'You were the seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-12.htm">12</a>“Son of man, raise a lamentation over the king of Tyre, and say to him, Thus says the Lord GOD: “You were the signet of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-12.htm">12</a>"Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre and say to him, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "You had the seal of perfection, Full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-12.htm">12</a>Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-12.htm">12</a>Son of man, lament for the king of Tyre and say to him: This is what the Lord GOD says: You were the seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-13.htm">13</a>You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone adorned you: carnelian, chrysolite and emerald, topaz, onyx and jasper, lapis lazuli, turquoise and beryl. Your settings and mountings were made of gold; on the day you were created they were prepared.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-13.htm">13</a>You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was your covering, sardius, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, emerald, and carbuncle; and crafted in gold were your settings and your engravings. On the day that you were created they were prepared.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-13.htm">13</a>"You were in Eden, the garden of God; Every precious stone was your covering: The ruby, the topaz and the diamond; The beryl, the onyx and the jasper; The lapis lazuli, the turquoise and the emerald; And the gold, the workmanship of your settings and sockets, Was in you. On the day that you were created They were prepared.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-13.htm">13</a>Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-13.htm">13</a>You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every kind of precious stone covered you: carnelian, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, turquoise and emerald. Your mountings and settings were crafted in gold; they were prepared on the day you were created. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-14.htm">14</a>You were anointed as a guardian cherub, for so I ordained you. You were on the holy mount of God; you walked among the fiery stones.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-14.htm">14</a>You were an anointed guardian cherub. I placed you; you were on the holy mountain of God; in the midst of the stones of fire you walked.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-14.htm">14</a>"You were the anointed cherub who covers, And I placed you there. You were on the holy mountain of God; You walked in the midst of the stones of fire.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-14.htm">14</a>Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-14.htm">14</a>You were an anointed guardian cherub, for I had appointed you. You were on the holy mountain of God; you walked among the fiery stones. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/niv/ezekiel/28.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NIV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/esv/ezekiel/28.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>ESV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/ezekiel/28.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/ezekiel/28.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/ezekiel/28.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-15.htm">15</a>You were blameless in your ways from the day you were created till wickedness was found in you.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-15.htm">15</a>You were blameless in your ways from the day you were created, till unrighteousness was found in you.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-15.htm">15</a>"You were blameless in your ways From the day you were created Until unrighteousness was found in you.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-15.htm">15</a>Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-15.htm">15</a>From the day you were created you were blameless in your ways until wickedness was found in you. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-16.htm">16</a>Through your widespread trade you were filled with violence, and you sinned. So I drove you in disgrace from the mount of God, and I expelled you, guardian cherub, from among the fiery stones.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-16.htm">16</a>In the abundance of your trade you were filled with violence in your midst, and you sinned; so I cast you as a profane thing from the mountain of God, and I destroyed you, O guardian cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-16.htm">16</a>"By the abundance of your trade You were internally filled with violence, And you sinned; Therefore I have cast you as profane From the mountain of God. And I have destroyed you, O covering cherub, From the midst of the stones of fire.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-16.htm">16</a>By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-16.htm">16</a>Through the abundance of your trade, you were filled with violence, and you sinned. So I expelled you in disgrace from the mountain of God, and banished you, guardian cherub, from among the fiery stones. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-17.htm">17</a>Your heart became proud on account of your beauty, and you corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor. So I threw you to the earth; I made a spectacle of you before kings.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-17.htm">17</a>Your heart was proud because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor. I cast you to the ground; I exposed you before kings, to feast their eyes on you.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-17.htm">17</a>"Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; You corrupted your wisdom by reason of your splendor. I cast you to the ground; I put you before kings, That they may see you.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-17.htm">17</a>Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-17.htm">17</a>Your heart became proud because of your beauty; For the sake of your splendor you corrupted your wisdom. So I threw you down to the earth; I made you a spectacle before kings. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-18.htm">18</a>By your many sins and dishonest trade you have desecrated your sanctuaries. So I made a fire come out from you, and it consumed you, and I reduced you to ashes on the ground in the sight of all who were watching.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-18.htm">18</a>By the multitude of your iniquities, in the unrighteousness of your trade you profaned your sanctuaries; so I brought fire out from your midst; it consumed you, and I turned you to ashes on the earth in the sight of all who saw you.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-18.htm">18</a>"By the multitude of your iniquities, In the unrighteousness of your trade You profaned your sanctuaries. Therefore I have brought fire from the midst of you; It has consumed you, And I have turned you to ashes on the earth In the eyes of all who see you.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-18.htm">18</a>Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-18.htm">18</a>You profaned your sanctuaries by the magnitude of your iniquities in your dishonest trade. So I made fire come from within you, and it consumed you. I reduced you to ashes on the ground in the sight of everyone watching you. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-19.htm">19</a>All the nations who knew you are appalled at you; you have come to a horrible end and will be no more.'"</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-19.htm">19</a>All who know you among the peoples are appalled at you; you have come to a dreadful end and shall be no more forever.”</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-19.htm">19</a>"All who know you among the peoples Are appalled at you; You have become terrified And you will cease to be forever."'"</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-19.htm">19</a>All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-19.htm">19</a>All those who know you among the nations are appalled at you. You have become an object of horror and will never exist again." </td></tr></table> A Prophecy against Sidon<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/niv/ezekiel/28.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NIV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/esv/ezekiel/28.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>ESV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/ezekiel/28.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/ezekiel/28.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/ezekiel/28.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-20.htm">20</a>The word of the LORD came to me:</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-20.htm">20</a>The word of the LORD came to me:</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-20.htm">20</a>And the word of the LORD came to me saying,</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-20.htm">20</a>Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-20.htm">20</a>The word of the LORD came to me: "</td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-21.htm">21</a>"Son of man, set your face against Sidon; prophesy against her</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-21.htm">21</a>“Son of man, set your face toward Sidon, and prophesy against her</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-21.htm">21</a>"Son of man, set your face toward Sidon, prophesy against her</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-21.htm">21</a>Son of man, set thy face against Zidon, and prophesy against it,</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-21.htm">21</a>Son of man, turn your face toward Sidon and prophesy against it. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-22.htm">22</a>and say: 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: "'I am against you, Sidon, and among you I will display my glory. You will know that I am the LORD, when I inflict punishment on you and within you am proved to be holy.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-22.htm">22</a>and say, Thus says the Lord GOD: “Behold, I am against you, O Sidon, and I will manifest my glory in your midst. And they shall know that I am the LORD when I execute judgments in her and manifest my holiness in her;</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-22.htm">22</a>and say, 'Thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I am against you, O Sidon, And I will be glorified in your midst. Then they will know that I am the LORD when I execute judgments in her, And I will manifest My holiness in her.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-22.htm">22</a>And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Zidon; and I will be glorified in the midst of thee: and they shall know that I am the LORD, when I shall have executed judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-22.htm">22</a>You are to say: This is what the Lord GOD says: Look! I am against you, Sidon, and I will display My glory within you. They will know that I am Yahweh when I execute judgments against her and demonstrate My holiness through her. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-23.htm">23</a>I will send a plague upon you and make blood flow in your streets. The slain will fall within you, with the sword against you on every side. Then you will know that I am the LORD.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-23.htm">23</a>for I will send pestilence into her, and blood into her streets; and the slain shall fall in her midst, by the sword that is against her on every side. Then they will know that I am the LORD.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-23.htm">23</a>"For I will send pestilence to her And blood to her streets, And the wounded will fall in her midst By the sword upon her on every side; Then they will know that I am the LORD.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-23.htm">23</a>For I will send into her pestilence, and blood into her streets; and the wounded shall be judged in the midst of her by the sword upon her on every side; and they shall know that I am the LORD.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-23.htm">23</a>I will send a plague against her and bloodshed in her streets; the slain will fall within her, while the sword is against her on every side. Then they will know that I am Yahweh." </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-24.htm">24</a>"'No longer will the people of Israel have malicious neighbors who are painful briers and sharp thorns. Then they will know that I am the Sovereign LORD.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-24.htm">24</a>“And for the house of Israel there shall be no more a brier to prick or a thorn to hurt them among all their neighbors who have treated them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the Lord GOD.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-24.htm">24</a>"And there will be no more for the house of Israel a prickling brier or a painful thorn from any round about them who scorned them; then they will know that I am the Lord GOD."</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-24.htm">24</a>And there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the house of Israel, nor any grieving thorn of all that are round about them, that despised them; and they shall know that I am the Lord GOD.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-24.htm">24</a>The house of Israel will no longer be hurt by prickly briers or painful thorns from all their neighbors who treat them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the Lord Yahweh." </td></tr></table> The Restoration of Israel<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/niv/ezekiel/28.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NIV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/esv/ezekiel/28.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>ESV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/ezekiel/28.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/ezekiel/28.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/ezekiel/28.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-25.htm">25</a>"'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: When I gather the people of Israel from the nations where they have been scattered, I will be proved holy through them in the sight of the nations. Then they will live in their own land, which I gave to my servant Jacob.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-25.htm">25</a>“Thus says the Lord GOD: When I gather the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered, and manifest my holiness in them in the sight of the nations, then they shall dwell in their own land that I gave to my servant Jacob.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-25.htm">25</a>'Thus says the Lord GOD, "When I gather the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered, and will manifest My holiness in them in the sight of the nations, then they will live in their land which I gave to My servant Jacob.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-25.htm">25</a>Thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, then shall they dwell in their land that I have given to my servant Jacob.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-25.htm">25</a>This is what the Lord GOD says: When I gather the house of Israel from the peoples where they are scattered and demonstrate My holiness through them in the sight of the nations, then they will live in their own land, which I gave to My servant Jacob. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-26.htm">26</a>They will live there in safety and will build houses and plant vineyards; they will live in safety when I inflict punishment on all their neighbors who maligned them. Then they will know that I am the LORD their God.'"</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-26.htm">26</a>And they shall dwell securely in it, and they shall build houses and plant vineyards. They shall dwell securely, when I execute judgments upon all their neighbors who have treated them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the LORD their God.”</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-26.htm">26</a>"They will live in it securely; and they will build houses, plant vineyards and live securely when I execute judgments upon all who scorn them round about them. Then they will know that I am the LORD their God."'"</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-26.htm">26</a>And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall build houses, and plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with confidence, when I have executed judgments upon all those that despise them round about them; and they shall know that I am the LORD their God.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/ezekiel/28-26.htm">26</a>They will live there securely, build houses, and plant vineyards. They will live securely when I execute judgments against all their neighbors who treat them with contempt. Then they will know that I am Yahweh their God." </td></tr></table><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"> THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com" target="_top">Biblica®</a>. 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