Ezekiel 28:17

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.

Heart

James 4:6

Thou hast

I will cast

Job 40:11

Psalm 73:18

Psalm 147:6

I will lay

Bible References

Heart

Son of man Say to the Prince of Tyre. Thus, saith My Lord. Yahweh - Because lofty, is thy heart and thou hast said A GOD, am I, In the seat of God, have I taken my seat In the heart of the seas; Whereas thou art a man, and not a GOD, But hast set thy heart as the heart of God:

Then went forth thy fame among the nations. for thy beauty,- Foe perfect, it was - in my splendour which I had put upon thee, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh.

Therefore Thus, saith My Lord Yahweh, Because thou hast become lofty in stature, And he hath stretched his top among the clouds, And his heart is exalted in his loftiness.

When pride cometh, then cometh contempt, but, with the modest, is wisdom.

Before grievous injury, pride! and, before a fall, haughtiness of spirit!

Because, everyone who exalteth himself, shall be abased; and, he that abaseth himself, shall be exalted?

Howbeit he giveth, greater, favour. Wherefore it saith - God, against the haughty, arrayeth himself, Whereas, unto the lowly, he giveth favour.

Thou hast

Surely, foolish, are the princes of Zoan, the wisest counsellors of Pharaoh, in counsel are brutish, - How can ye say unto Pharaoh, Son of the wise, am I Son of the kings of olden time?

Ashamed are the wise, dismayed and captured! Lo! the word of Yahweh, have they rejected, And, what wisdom, have, they?

Professing to be wise, they were made foolish,

For it is written - I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and, the discernment of the discerning, will I set aside.

I will cast

Pour out thy transports of anger, and look on every one who is high, and lay him low;

Surely, in slippery places, dost thou set them, - Thou hast suffered them to fall into places of danger.

Yahweh, relieveth the humbled! casting the lawless down to the earth.

I will lay

And burn up thy houses with fire, And execute upon thee judgments before the eyes of many women, - So will I cause thee to cease from acting unchastely, Moreover also a present, shalt thou not give any more.

So will I make an end of lewdness out of the land,- And all women shall be disciplined, and shall not do according to your lewdness.

Yea I will cause amazement over thee unto many peoples And the hair of their kings shall stand on end over thee, when I brandish my sword over their faces,- And they shall tremble every moment every man for his own life, In the day of thy fall.

Hades beneath, is excited about thee To meet thine arrival, - Rousing up, for thee Shades, All the he-goats of earth! Maketh rise from their thrones, All the kings of the nations.