5. Through your great wisdom in tradingyou heaped up riches for yourself—your heart is haughty because of your riches.
6. Therefore thus says the Lord God:Because you pretend you are a god at heart,
7. Therefore, I will bring against youstrangers, the most bloodthirsty of nations.They shall draw their swordsagainst your splendid wisdom,and violate your radiance.
8. They shall thrust you down into the pit:you shall die a violent deathin the heart of the sea.
9. Then, face to face with your killers,will you still say, “I am a god”?No, you are a man, not a god,handed over to those who slay you.
10. You shall die the death of the uncircumcisedhanded over to strangers,for I have spoken—oracle of the Lord God.
11. The word of the Lord came to me:
12. Son of man, raise a lament over the king of Tyre, and say to him: Thus says the Lord God: You were a seal of perfection,full of wisdom, perfect in beauty.
13. In Eden, the garden of God, you lived;precious stones of every kind were your covering:Carnelian, topaz, and beryl,chrysolite, onyx, and jasper,sapphire, garnet, and emerald.Their mounts and settingswere wrought in gold,fashioned for you the day you were created.