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 unto the prince of Tyre, Thus hath the Lord GOD said: Because thy heart has lifted thee up and thou hast said, I am God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas (yet thou art man, and not God); and thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God:

And thy renown went forth among the Gentiles for thy beauty; for it was perfect because of my beauty which I placed upon thee, said the Lord GOD.

Therefore thus hath the Lord GOD said; Because thou hast lifted up thyself in height, and he has shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;

When pride comes, then comes shame, but with the humble is wisdom.

Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

For whosoever exalts himself shall be abased, and he that humbles himself shall be exalted.

But he gives greater grace. Therefore he says, God resists the proud, but gives grace unto the humble.

Thou hast

Surely the princes of Zoan are fools; the counsel of the prudent counsellors of Pharaoh is become carnal; how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of the ancient kings?

The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools

For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent.

I will cast

Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath; and behold every one that is proud and bring him down.

Surely thou didst set them in slippery places; in desolation thou shalt cause them to fall.

The LORD lifts up the humble; he casts the wicked down to the earth.

I will lay

And they shall burn thine houses with fire and execute judgments upon thee in the sight of many women; and I will cause thee to cease from playing the harlot, and thou also shalt give no hire any more.

Thus will I cause the lust to cease out of the land that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.

And I will make many peoples amazed at thee and their kings shall be horribly afraid because of thee, when I shall brandish my sword before them; and they shall tremble at every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of thy fall.

Sheol from beneath is aghast at thee; it stirs up the dead to meet thee at thy coming; it has raised up from their thrones all the princes of the earth, all the kings of the Gentiles.