Ezekiel 28:8

They shall kill thee, and bring thee down: and thou shalt die the death of them that are slain in the heart of the sea.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas.

In Context

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

9Wilt thou yet say before them that slay thee: I am God; whereas thou art a man, and not God, in the hand of them that slay thee?

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Cross References

Job 17:16All that I have shall go down into the deepest pit: thinkest thou that there at least I shall have rest?

Job 33:28He hath delivered his soul from going into destruction, that it may live and see the light.

Psalms 30:9To thee, O Lord, will I cry: and I will make supplication to my God.

Psalms 88:4For my soul is filled with evils: and my life hath drawn nigh to hell.

Proverbs 28:17A man that doth violence to the blood of a person, if he flee even to the pit, no man will stay him.

Ezekiel 27:26Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the south wind hath broken thee in the heart of the sea.

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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