Ezekiel 28:17

A Lament For Tyre's King

¹⁶ Through the abundance of your trade,
you were filled with violence, and you sinned.
So I expelled you in disgrace
from the mountain of God,
and banished you, guardian cherub,
from among the fiery stones.
¹⁷ Your heart became proud because of your beauty;
For the sake of your splendor
you corrupted your wisdom.
So I threw you down to the earth;
I made you a spectacle before kings.
¹⁸ You profaned your sanctuaries
by the magnitude of your iniquities
in your dishonest trade.
So I made fire come from within you,
and it consumed you.
I reduced you to ashes on the ground
in the sight of everyone watching you.

Lifted Up

Sin

Ezekiel 28:2

“Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre: 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.

Ezekiel 28:5

By your great skill in trading
you have increased your wealth,
but your heart has become proud
because of your wealth.”

Ezekiel 31:10

“Therefore this is what the Lord God says: Since it became great in height and set its top among the clouds, and it grew proud on account of its height,

Job 40:11-12

Unleash your raging anger;
look on every proud person and humiliate him.

Psalm 73:18

Indeed, You put them in slippery places;
You make them fall into ruin.

Psalm 147:6

The Lord helps the afflicted
but brings the wicked to the ground.

Proverbs 11:2

When pride comes, disgrace follows,
but with humility comes wisdom.

Proverbs 16:18

Pride comes before destruction,
and an arrogant spirit before a fall.

Isaiah 14:9-11

Sheol below is eager to greet your coming.
He stirs up the spirits of the departed for you—
all the rulers of the earth.
He makes all the kings of the nations
rise from their thrones.

Isaiah 19:11-13

The princes of Zoan are complete fools;
Pharaoh’s wisest advisers give stupid advice!
How can you say to Pharaoh,
“I am one of the wise,
a student of eastern kings”?

Jeremiah 8:9

The wise will be put to shame;
they will be dismayed and snared.
They have rejected the word of the Lord,
so what wisdom do they really have?

Ezekiel 16:14-15

Your fame spread among the nations because of your beauty, for it was perfect through My splendor, which I had bestowed on you.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.

Ezekiel 16:41

Then they will burn down your houses and execute judgments against you in the sight of many women. I will stop you from being a prostitute, and you will never again pay fees for lovers.

Ezekiel 23:48

So I will put an end to indecency in the land, and all the women will be admonished not to imitate your indecent behavior.

Ezekiel 28:7

I am about to bring strangers against you,
ruthless men from the nations.
They will draw their swords
against your magnificent wisdom
and will defile your splendor.

Ezekiel 32:10

I will cause many nations to be appalled at you,
and their kings will shudder with fear because of you
when I brandish My sword in front of them.
On the day of your downfall
each of them will tremble
every moment for his life.

Luke 14:11

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

Romans 1:22-25

Claiming to be wise, they became fools

1 Corinthians 1:19-21

For it is written:

I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
and I will set aside the understanding of the experts.

James 4:6

But He gives greater grace. Therefore He says:

God resists the proud,
but gives grace to the humble.