<p class="poetry">&#8220;&#8216;Therefore this is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says:p> <p class="poetry">Because you think you are godlike,<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Will you still say, &#8220;I am a god,&#8221; before the one who kills you &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">though you are a man and not a god &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">when you are in the power of those who wound you?p>

&#8220;Son of man, say to the prince<n id="1" /> of Tyre, &#8216;This is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says:p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;&#8216;Your heart is proud<n id="2" /> and you said, &#8220;I am a god;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">I sit in the seat of gods, in the heart of the seas&#8221; &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">yet you are a man and not a god,p> <p class="poetry">though you think you are godlike.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">The cedars in the garden of God could not eclipse it,p> <p class="poetry">nor could the fir trees<n id="1" /> match its boughs;p> <p class="poetry">the plane trees were as nothing compared to its branches;p> <p class="poetry">no tree in the garden of God could rival its beauty.p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">In the thirtieth year,<n id="1" /> on the fifth day of the fourth month, while I was among the exiles<n id="2" /> at the Kebar River,<n id="3" /> the heavens opened<n id="4" /> and I saw a divine vision.<n id="5" />

Then a wind<n id="1" /> lifted me up and carried me to the exiles in Babylonia,<n id="2" /> in the vision given to me by the Spirit of God.p> <p class="bodytext">Then the vision I had seen went up from me.

<p class="poetry">I placed you there with an anointed<n id="1" /> guardian<n id="2" /> cherub;<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">you were on the holy mountain of God;p> <p class="poetry">you walked about amidst fiery stones.p>

<p class="poetry">In the abundance of your trade you were filled with violence,<n id="1" /> and you sinned;p> <p class="poetry">so I defiled you and banished you<n id="2" /> from the mountain of God &#8211;p> <p class="poetry">the guardian cherub expelled you<n id="3" /> from the midst of the stones of fire.p>

By means of divine visions<n id="1" /> he brought me to the land of Israel and placed me on a very high mountain,<n id="2" /> and on it was a structure like a city, to the south.

He stretched out the form<n id="1" /> of a hand and grabbed me by a lock of hair on my head. Then a wind<n id="2" /> lifted me up between the earth and sky and brought me to Jerusalem<n id="3" /> by means of divine visions, to the door of the inner gate which faces north where the statue<n id="4" /> which provokes to jealousy was located.

<p class="poetry">You were in Eden, the garden of God.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Every precious stone was your covering,p> <p class="poetry">the ruby, topaz, and emerald,p> <p class="poetry">the chrysolite, onyx, and jasper,p> <p class="poetry">the sapphire, turquoise, and beryl;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">your settings and mounts were made of gold.p> <p class="poetry">On the day you were created they were prepared.p>