Ezekiel 28:17

A Lament For Tyre's King

¹⁶ “By the abundance of your trade
You were internally filled with violence,
And you sinned;
Therefore I have cast you as profane
From the mountain of God.
And I have destroyed you, O covering cherub,
From the midst of the stones of fire.
¹⁷ “Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty;
You corrupted your wisdom by reason of your splendor.
I cast you to the ground;
I put you before kings,
That they may see you.
¹⁸ “By the multitude of your iniquities,
In the unrighteousness of your trade
You profaned your sanctuaries.
Therefore I have brought fire from the midst of you;
It has consumed you,
And I have turned you to ashes on the earth
In the eyes of all who see you.

Lifted Up

Sin

Ezekiel 28:2

“Son of man, say to the leader of Tyre, ‘Thus says the Lord God,
“Because your heart is lifted up
And you have 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 God,
Although you make your heart like the heart of God—

Ezekiel 28:5

“By your great wisdom, by your trade
You have increased your riches
And your heart is lifted up because of your riches—

Ezekiel 31:10

‘Therefore thus says the Lord God, “Because it is high in stature and has set its top among the clouds, and its heart is haughty in its loftiness,

Job 40:11-12

“Pour out the overflowings of your anger,
And look on everyone who is proud, and make him low.

Psalm 73:18

Surely You set them in slippery places;
You cast them down to destruction.

Psalm 147:6

The Lord supports the afflicted;
He brings down the wicked to the ground.

Proverbs 11:2

When pride comes, then comes dishonor,
But with the humble is wisdom.

Proverbs 16:18

Pride goes before destruction,
And a haughty spirit before stumbling.

Isaiah 14:9-11

“Sheol from beneath is excited over you to meet you when you come;
It arouses for you the spirits of the dead, all the leaders of the earth;
It raises all the kings of the nations from their thrones.

Isaiah 19:11-13

The princes of Zoan are mere fools;
The advice of Pharaoh’s wisest advisers has become stupid.
How can you men say to Pharaoh,
“I am a son of the wise, a son of ancient kings”?

Jeremiah 8:9

“The wise men are put to shame,
They are dismayed and caught;
Behold, they have rejected the word of the Lord,
And what kind of wisdom do they have?

Ezekiel 16:14-15

Then your fame went forth among the nations on account of your beauty, for it was perfect because of My splendor which I bestowed on you,” declares the Lord God.

Ezekiel 16:41

They will burn your houses with fire and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women. Then I will stop you from playing the harlot, and you will also no longer pay your lovers.

Ezekiel 23:48

Thus I will make lewdness cease from the land, that all women may be admonished and not commit lewdness as you have done.

Ezekiel 28:7

Therefore, behold, I will bring strangers upon you,
The most ruthless of the nations.
And they will draw their swords
Against the beauty of your wisdom
And defile your splendor.

Ezekiel 32:10

I will make many peoples appalled at you, and their kings will be horribly afraid of you when I brandish My sword before them; and they will tremble every moment, every man for his own life, on the day of your fall.”

Luke 14:11

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

Romans 1:22-25

Professing to be wise, they became fools,

1 Corinthians 1:19-21

For it is written,
“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
And the cleverness of the clever I will set aside.”

James 4:6

But He gives a greater grace. Therefore it says, “God is opposed to the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”