Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

Ezechiel 28:1-14 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

1. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:

2. Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre: Thus saith the Lord God: Because thy heart is lifted up, and thou hast said: I am God, and T sit in the chair of God in the heart of the sea: whereas thou art a man, and not God: and hast set thy heart as if it were the heart of God.

3. Behold thou art wiser than Daniel: no secret is hid from thee.

4. In thy wisdom and thy understanding thou hast made thyself strong: and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures.

5. By the greatness of thy wisdom, and by thy traffic thou hast increased thy strength: and thy heart is lifted up with thy strength.

6. Therefore, thus saith the Lord God: Because thy heart is lifted up as the heart of God:

7. Therefore behold, I will bring upon thee strangers the strongest of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy beauty.

8. They shall kill thee, and bring thee down: and thou shalt die the death of them that are slain in the heart of the sea.

9. Wilt thou yet say before them that slay thee: I am God; whereas thou art a man, and not God, in the hand of them that slay thee?

10. Thou shalt die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God.

11. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyre:

12. And say to him: Thus saith the Lord God: Thou wast the seal of resemblance, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.

13. Thou wast in the pleasures of the paradise of God: every precious stone teas thy covering: the sardius, the topaz, and the jasper, the chrysolite, and the onyx, and the beryl, the sapphire, and the carbuncle, and the emerald: gold the work of thy beauty: and thy pipes were prepared in the day that thou wast created.

14. Thou a cherub stretched out, and protecting, and I set thee in the holy mountain of God, thou hast walked in the midst of the stones of fire.