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Ezekiel 28

26 aligned verses; 26 with wording or punctuation differences .

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And the word of the LORD came to me, saying ,
And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying :
Son of man, tell the ruler of Tyre that this is what the Lord GOD says : Your heart is proud , and you have said, ‘I am a god ; I sit in the seat of gods in the heart of the sea.’ Yet you are a man and not a god, though you have regarded your heart as that of a god .
` Son of man, say to the leader of Tyre : Thus said the Lord Jehovah : Because thy heart hath been high , And thou dost say: A god I `am', The habitation of God I have inhabited, In the heart of the seas, And thou `art' man , and not God, And thou givest out thy heart as the heart of God ,
Behold , you are wiser than Daniel ; no secret is hidden from you!
Lo , thou `art' wiser than Daniel , No hidden thing have they concealed from thee.
By your wisdom and understanding you have gained your wealth and amassed gold and silver for your treasuries.
By thy wisdom and by thine understanding Thou hast made for thee wealth , And makest gold and silver in thy treasuries.
By your great skill in trading you have increased your wealth, but your heart has grown proud because of it .
By the abundance of thy wisdom, Through thy merchandise, Thou hast multiplied thy wealth, And high is thy heart through thy wealth .
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says : Because you regard your heart as the heart of a god,
Therefore , thus said the Lord Jehovah : Because of thy giving out thy heart as the heart of God,
behold , I will bring foreigners against you , the most ruthless of nations . They will draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom and will defile your splendor .
Therefore , lo, I am bringing in against thee strangers , The terrible of the nations , And they have drawn out their swords Against the beauty of thy wisdom , And they have pierced thy brightness .
They will bring you down to the Pit , and you will die a violent death in the heart of the seas.
To destruction they bring thee down , Thou diest by the deaths of the wounded , in the heart of the seas.
Will you still say, I am a god, in the presence of those who slay you ? You will be only a man, not a god, in the hands of those who wound you .
Dost thou really say, ` I ` am ' God, ' Before him who is slaying thee ? And thou `art' man, and not God, In the hand of him who is piercing thee .
You will die the death of the uncircumcised at the hands of foreigners. For I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD .
The deaths of the uncircumcised thou diest, By the hand of strangers, for I have spoken, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah . '
Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying ,
And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying :
Son of man, take up a lament for the king of Tyre and tell him that this is what the Lord GOD says : ‘You were the seal of perfection , full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.
` Son of man, lift up a lamentation for the king of Tyre , And thou hast said to him : Thus said the Lord Jehovah : Thou art sealing up a measurement , Full of wisdom , and perfect in beauty.
You were in Eden, the garden of God . Every kind of precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, turquoise , and emerald. Your mountings and settings were crafted in gold, prepared on the day of your creation .
In Eden, the garden of God , thou hast been, Every precious stone thy covering, Ruby, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, Sapphire, emerald , and carbuncle, and gold, The workmanship of thy tabrets, and of thy pipes, In thee in the day of thy being produced, have been prepared .
You were anointed as a guardian cherub, for I had ordained you. You were on the holy mountain of God ; you walked among the fiery stones.
Thou `art' an anointed cherub who is covering , And I have set thee in the holy mount, God thou hast been, In the midst of stones of fire thou hast walked up and down .
From the day you were created you were blameless in your ways— until wickedness was found in you .
Perfect `art' thou in thy ways, From the day of thy being produced, Till perversity hath been found in thee .
By the vastness of your trade, you were filled with violence, and you sinned. So I drove you in disgrace from the mountain of God, and I banished you , O guardian cherub, from among the fiery stones.
By the abundance of thy merchandise They have filled thy midst with violence, And thou dost sin, And I thrust thee from the mount of God, And I destroy thee , O covering cherub, From the midst of the stones of fire .
Your heart grew proud of your beauty ; you corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor; so I cast you to the earth ; I made you a spectacle before kings .
High hath been thy heart , because of thy beauty , Thou hast corrupted thy wisdom because of thy brightness, On the earth I have cast thee, Before kings I have set thee, to look on thee,
By the multitude of your iniquities and the dishonesty of your trading you have profaned your sanctuaries . So I made fire come from within you , and it consumed you. I reduced you to ashes on the ground in the eyes of all who saw you .
From the abundance of thy iniquity, By the perversity of thy traffic, Thou hast polluted thy sanctuaries , And I bring forth fire from thy midst , It hath devoured thee, And I make thee become ashes on the earth, Before the eyes of all beholding thee .
All the nations who know you are appalled over you. You have come to a horrible end and will be no more . ’”
All knowing thee among the peoples Have been astonished at thee, Wastes thou hast been, and thou art not -- to the age . '
Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying,
Son of man, set your face against Sidon and prophesy against her.
` Son of man, set thy face unto Zidon, and prophesy concerning it;
And you are to declare that this is what the Lord GOD says : ‘Behold , I am against you , O Sidon , and I will be glorified within you. They will know that I am the LORD when I execute judgments against her and demonstrate My holiness through her.
and thou hast said: Thus said the Lord Jehovah : Lo , I ` am ' against thee , O Zidon , And I have been honoured in thy midst, And they have known that I ` am ' Jehovah, In My doing in her judgments, And I have been sanctified in her.
I will send a plague against her and shed blood in her streets; the slain will fall within her, while the sword is against her on every side. Then they will know that I am the LORD .
And I have sent into her pestilence, And blood into her out-places, The wounded hath been judged in her midst , By the sword upon her round about, And they have known that I ` am ' Jehovah .
For the people of Israel will no longer face a pricking brier or a painful thorn from all around them who treat them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the Lord GOD .
And there is no more to the house of Israel A pricking brier , and paining thorn , Of all round about them -- despising them , And they have known that I ` am ' the Lord Jehovah .
This is what the Lord GOD says : ‘When I gather the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they have been scattered, I will show Myself holy among them in the sight of the nations . Then they will dwell in their own land , which I have given to My servant Jacob .
Thus said the Lord Jehovah : In My gathering the house of Israel , Out of the peoples among whom they were scattered, I have been sanctified in them, Before the eyes of the nations , And they have dwelt on their ground , That I gave to My servant , to Jacob ,
And there they will dwell securely , build houses, and plant vineyards . They will dwell securely when I execute judgments against all those around them who treat them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the LORD their God .’”
And they have dwelt on it confidently , And builded houses, and planted vineyards , And dwelt confidently -- in My doing judgments , On all those despising them round about, And they have known that I , Jehovah, ` am ' their God !'

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