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Ezekiel 28:5

By the multitude of your wisdom, and by your business dealings, you have multiplied strength for yourself. And your heart has been exalted by your strength.

Catholic Public Domain Version

In The King James Version

By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:

In Context

4By your wisdom and prudence, you have made yourself strong, and you have acquired gold and silver for your storehouses.

6Therefore, thus says the Lord God: Because your heart has been exalted as if it were the heart of God,

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 8:13and have obtained herds of oxen, and flocks of sheep, and a plentitude of gold and silver and all things,

2 Kings 14:10You have struck and prevailed over Idumea. And your heart has lifted you up. Be content with your own glory, and be seated in your own house. Why would you provoke evil, so that you would fall, and Judah with you?”

2 Chronicles 32:23And now many were bringing victims and sacrifices to the Lord in Jerusalem, and gifts to Hezekiah, the king of Judah. And after these things, he was exalted before all the nations.

Psalms 52:7Who will grant from Zion the salvation of Israel? Jacob will exult, when God will convert the captivity of his people; and Israel will rejoice.

Psalms 62:11They will be delivered into the hand of the sword. They will be the portions of foxes.

Proverbs 26:12Have you seen a man who seems wise to himself? There will be greater hope held for the unwise 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 →

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