New International Reader's Version

Ezekiel 28:4-9 New International Reader's Version (NIRV)

4. You are wise and understanding. So you have become very wealthy. You have piled up gold and silver among your treasures.

5. You have used your great skill in trading to increase your wealth. You are very rich. So your heart has become proud." ' "

6. The Lord and King says, "You think you are wise. In fact, you claim to be as wise as a god.

7. So I am going to bring strangers against you. They will not show you any pity at all. They will use their swords against your beauty and wisdom. They will strike down your shining glory.

8. They will bring you down to the grave. You will die a horrible death in the middle of the sea.

9. Then will you say, 'I am a god'? Will you say that to those who kill you? You will be only a man to those who kill you. You will not be a god to them.