1. THE WORD of the Lord came again to me, saying,
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;
3. Indeed, you are [imagining yourself] wiser than Daniel; there is no secret [you think] that is hidden from you;
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;
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;
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], [Obad. 3.]
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.
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.