Ezekiel 28:6

Therefore thus says lord LORD: Because thou have set thy heart as the heart of God,

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God;

In Context

5By thy great wisdom [and] by thy traffic thou have increased thy riches. And thy heart is lifted up because of thy riches.

7therefore, behold, I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations, and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness.

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Cross References

Exodus 9:17As yet thou exalt thyself against my people, that thou will not let them go?

Job 40:9Or have thou an arm like God? And can thou thunder with a voice like him?

1 Corinthians 10:22Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

James 1:11For the sun rose up with the burning heat, and withered the grass. And the flower of it fell, and the beauty of its appearance perished. So also the rich man will fade away among his pursuits.

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 28:2-11

Fall of the Prince of Tyre. ( b. c. 588.) 1 The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord God ; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God: 3 Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee: 4 With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee… Read the whole commentary →

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