Ezekiel 28:5
By your great wisdom and by your trade your power is increased, and your heart is lifted up because of your power:
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In Context
6For this cause the Lord has said: Because you have made your heart as the heart of God,
Cross References
Deuteronomy 8:13And when your herds and your flocks are increased, and your stores of silver and gold, and you have wealth of every sort;
2 Kings 14:10It is true that you have overcome Edom and your heart is uplifted; let that glory be enough for you, and keep in your country; why do you make causes of trouble, putting yourself, and Judah with you, in danger of downfall?
2 Chronicles 32:23And great numbers came to Jerusalem with offerings for the Lord, and things of great price for Hezekiah, king of Judah: so that he was honoured among all nations from that time.
Psalms 52:7\52:5\But God will put an end to you for ever; driving you out from your tent, uprooting you from the land of the living. (Selah.)
Psalms 62:11\62:10\Have no faith in the rewards of evil-doing, or in profits wrongly made: if your wealth is increased, do not put your hopes on it.
Proverbs 26:12Have you seen a man who seems to himself to be wise? There is more hope for the foolish than for him.
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 →