Ezekiel 28:15

You were completely good in all that you did, from the day that you were created/born, until you started to do wicked things.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.

In Context

14I appointed [DOU] you to be like [MET] a strong angel to guard the people. It was as though I put you on my holy mountain, and you walked among fiery stones.

16Then you became busy trading things, and you started to act violently, and you sinned. So I caused you to be disgraced; and the angel who was guarding you forced you to leave my holy mountain, forced you to leave your place among those fiery stones.

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Cross References

Genesis 1:31God was pleased with everything that he had made. Truly, it was all very good. Then there was another evening, that was followed by another morning. He called that period of time ‘the sixth day’.

Proverbs 14:34When the people of a nation continually act righteously, it causes that nation to be great; continually doing what is evil causes a nation to be disgraced.

Isaiah 14:12You have disappeared from the earth like [MET] a star which has fallen from the sky; you were very well-known like [MET] the morning star which is seen by everyone; you destroyed many nations, but now you have been destroyed.

Ezekiel 27:3The city of Tyre is located on an island at the edge of the sea, and their merchants ◄traded/bought and sold goods► with people-groups who live along many seacoasts. This is what I, Yahweh the Lord, say that you should tell them: ‘You people of Tyre said that your city was very beautiful.

Ezekiel 28:12“You human, sing a sad/funeral song about the king of Tyre. Say to him, ‘This is what Yahweh the Lord says: “You thought that [IRO] you were completely perfect, extremely wise and handsome.

Romans 7:9Formerly, when I did not know what God’s laws required, I used to live without worrying about what I was doing. But when I became aware that God commanded, “You must not covet,” I suddenly realized [PRS] that I was sinning,

Matthew Henry on Ezekiel 28:12-20

Fall of the Prince of Tyre. ( b. c. 588.) 11 Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying, 12 Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord God ; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. 13 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of… Read the whole commentary →

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