Ezekiel 28:6

Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because thou hast set thy heart as the heart of God,

Darby Translation

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 thou hast by thy traffic 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 tarnish thy brightness.

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Cross References

Exodus 9:17Dost thou still exalt thyself against my people, that thou wilt not let them go?

Job 40:9Hast thou an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with a voice like him?

1 Corinthians 10:22Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?

James 1:11For the sun has risen with its burning heat, and has withered the grass, and its flower has fallen, and the comeliness of its look has perished: thus the rich also shall wither in his goings.

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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