New English Translation

Ezekiel 28:17-26 New English Translation (NET)

17. Your heart was proud because of your beauty;you corrupted your wisdom on account of your splendor.I threw you down to the ground; I placed you before kings, that they might see you.

18. By the multitude of your iniquities, through the sinfulness of your trade,you desecrated your sanctuaries.So I drew fire out from within you; it consumed you,and I turned you to ashes on the earth before the eyes of all who saw you.

19. All who know you among the peoples are shocked at you;you have become terrified and will be no more.’”

20. The word of the Lord came to me:

21. “Son of man, turn toward Sidon and prophesy against it.

22. Say, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says:“‘Look, I am against you, Sidon, and I will magnify myself in your midst.Then they will know that I am the Lord when I execute judgments on her and reveal my sovereign power in her.

23. I will send a plague into the city and bloodshed into its streets;the slain will fall within it, by the sword that attacks it from every side.Then they will know that I am the Lord.

24. “‘No longer will Israel suffer from the sharp briers or painful thorns of all who surround and scorn them. Then they will know that I am the sovereign Lord.

25. “‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: When I regather the house of Israel from the peoples where they are dispersed, I will reveal my sovereign power over them in the sight of the nations, and they will live in their land that I gave to my servant Jacob.

26. They will live securely in it; they will build houses and plant vineyards. They will live securely when I execute my judgments on all those who scorn them and surround them. Then they will know that I am the Lord their God.’”