Ezekiel 28:1-2

A Prophecy Against the King of Tyre

28:1 The word of the Lord came to me: 28:2 “Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says:

“‘Your heart is proud and you said, “I am a god;

I sit in the seat of gods, in the heart of the seas” –

yet you are a man and not a god,

though you think you are godlike.


tn Or “ruler” (NIV, NCV).

tn Heb “lifted up.”

tn Or “I am divine.”

tn Heb “and you made your heart (mind) like the heart (mind) of gods.”