¹Then the word of the Lord came to me and said, ²“Son of Adam, say to the prince of Tyre, ‘This is what my Lord the Lord says:

«Because your heart has been proud,

You have said, ‹I am God;

I sit in the seat of God

In the heart of the seas.›

But you are a man and not God,

And you have inclined your heart

To be as if God's heart.

³Look, you are wiser than Daniel.

No secret is hidden from you.

⁴In your wisdom and your understanding,

You have acquired riches,

And you have acquired gold and silver in your treasuries.

⁵By the greatness of your wisdom,

By your trade,

You have increased your wealth,

And your heart has become proud with your wealth.

⁶That is why this is what the Lord, the Lord, says:

‹Because you have disposed your heart

To be as if God's heart,

⁷Therefore I am about to bring foreigners against you

– Fierce ones from the Gentiles –

And they will draw their swords against the excellence of your wisdom,

And they will spoil your splendour.

⁸They will bring you down into the pit,

And you will die the death of him who is struck through,

In the heart of the seas.

⁹Will you really say,

"I am God"

Before him who will kill you,

When you are a man and not God,

In the hands of those who will strike you through?

¹⁰You will die the death of the uncircumcised,

By the hand of foreigners,

For I have spoken it,

Says the Lord, the Lord.› » ’ ”

¹¹Then the word of the Lord came to me and said, ¹²“Son of Adam, deliver a lamentation to the king of Tyre, and say to him, ‘This is what my Lord the Lord says:

«You seal perfection in form.

You are full of wisdom

And are of absolute beauty.

¹³You were in Eden, the garden of God;

Every precious gemstone was your covering:

Ruby, topaz, and diamond,

Chrysolite, onyx, jasper

Sapphire, chrysoprase, emerald,

And gold.

The workmanship of your drums and your bezels was with you;

They were prepared on the day when you were created.

¹⁴You are the anointed cherub

Who acts as a covering,

And I appointed you.

You have been on the holy mountain of God;

You have walked around among the fiery stones.

¹⁵You were perfect in your ways

From the day you were created

Until unrighteousness was found in you.

¹⁶With the large amount of your trade

They have filled your precincts with violence,

And you have sinned,

And I have removed you as profaned from the mountain of God,

And I will eradicate you,

You who act as a covering cherub,

From among the fiery stones.

¹⁷Your heart has become proud

Because of your beauty.

You have spoilt your wisdom on account of your splendour.

I will cast you down to the earth;

I will place you before kings,

For them to look at you.

¹⁸With the abundance of your iniquity,

With the unrighteousness in your trade,

You have profaned your sanctuaries.

So I will produce fire from within you;

It will consume you,

And I will make you ash on the earth

In the sight of all who see you.

¹⁹All among the various nations who know you

Will be astonished at you.

You will be a terrible scene,

And you will be no more

Age-abidingly.» ’ ”

²⁰Then the word of the Lord came to me and said, ²¹“Son of Adam, direct your attention to Sidon and prophesy against it. ²²And you will say, ‘This is what my Lord the Lord says:

«Here I am against you, Sidon,

And I will become glorified within your confines.

And they will know that I am the Lord

When I execute judgments in it.

And I will be sanctified in it.

²³And I will send a plague to it

And blood in its streets,

And he who is struck will fall in its precincts

By the sword against its all around,

And they will know that I am the Lord.

²⁴And the house of Israel will no longer have a stinging barb or painful thorn from any around them who despise them, and they will know that I am the Lord, the Lord.» ²⁵This is what my Lord the Lord says: «When I gather the house of Israel from the nations among which they have been scattered, and I have been sanctified through them in the eyes of the Gentiles, they will live on their land which I have given to my servant – to Jacob. ²⁶And they will live on it in security, and they will build houses and plant vineyards, and they will live in security, when I execute judgments on all those who despise them from round about them, and they will know that I am the Lord their God.» ’ ”