5. By your great wisdom in trade you have increased your riches,And your heart is lifted up because of your riches),”
6. ‘Therefore thus says the Lord God:“Because you have set your heart as the heart of a god,
7. Behold, therefore, I will bring strangers against you,The most terrible of the nations;And they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom,And defile your splendor.
8. They shall throw you down into the Pit,And you shall die the death of the slainIn the midst of the seas.
9. “Will you still say before him who slays you,‘I am a god’?But you shall be a man, and not a god,In the hand of him who slays you.
10. You shall die the death of the uncircumcisedBy the hand of aliens;For I have spoken,” says the Lord God.’ ”
11. Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
12. “Son of man, take up a lamentation for the king of Tyre, and say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord God:“You were the seal of perfection,Full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.
13. You were in Eden, the garden of God;Every precious stone was your covering:The sardius, topaz, and diamond,Beryl, onyx, and jasper,Sapphire, turquoise, and emerald with gold.The workmanship of your timbrels and pipesWas prepared for you on the day you were created.
14. “You were the anointed cherub who covers;I established you;You were on the holy mountain of God;You walked back and forth in the midst of fiery stones.