Ezekiel 28:5

A Prophecy Aimed At The King Of Tyre

⁴ by thy wisdom and by thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures; ⁵ by thy great wisdom thou hast by thy traffic increased thy riches, and thy heart is lifted up because of thy riches. ⁶ Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because thou hast set thy heart as the heart of God,

Lifted Up

Psalm 62:10

Put not confidence in oppression, and become not vain in robbery; if wealth increase, set not your heart upon it.

Psalm 52:7

Behold the man that made not God his strength, but put confidence in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his avarice.

Ezekiel 28:2

Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyre, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because thy heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the heart of the seas, (and thou art a man, and not God,) and thou settest thy heart as the heart of God:

Hosea 13:6

According to their pasture, they became full; they became full, and their heart was exalted: therefore have they forgotten me.

Job 31:24-25

If I have made gold my hope, or said to the fine gold, My confidence!

Hosea 12:7-8

He is a merchant, balances of deceit are in his hand; he loveth to oppress.

Deuteronomy 6:11-12

and houses full of everything good which thou filledst not, and wells digged which thou diggedst not, vineyards and oliveyards which thou plantedst not, and thou shalt have eaten and shalt be full;

Deuteronomy 8:13-14

and thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied,

2 Chronicles 25:19

Thou thinkest, Lo, thou hast smitten Edom; and thy heart has lifted thee up to boast: abide now at home; why shouldest thou contend with misfortune, that thou shouldest fall, thou and Judah with thee?

2 Chronicles 32:23-25

And many brought gifts unto Jehovah to Jerusalem, and precious things to Hezekiah king of Judah; and he was thenceforth magnified in the sight of all the nations.

Proverbs 11:28

He that trusteth in his riches shall fall; but the righteous shall flourish as a leaf.

Proverbs 26:12

Hast thou seen a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope of a fool than of him.

Proverbs 30:9

lest I be full and deny thee, and say, Who is Jehovah? or lest I be poor and steal, and outrage the name of my God.

Isaiah 5:21

Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and intelligent in their own esteem!

Isaiah 10:8-14

For he saith, Are not my princes all kings?

Isaiah 23:3

And on great waters, the seed of Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, was her revenue; and she was the market of the nations.

Isaiah 23:8

Who hath purposed this against Tyre, the distributor of crowns, whose merchants were princes, whose dealers were the honourable of the earth?

Ezekiel 16:49

Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom: pride, fulness of bread, and careless ease was in her and in her daughters, but she did not strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

Ezekiel 27:12-36

Tarshish dealt with thee by reason of the abundance of all substance; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they furnished thy markets.

Daniel 4:30

the king spoke and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?

Daniel 4:37

Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of the heavens, all whose works are truth, and his paths judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.

Zechariah 9:3

And Tyre hath built herself a stronghold, and hath heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets.

Luke 12:16-21

And he spoke a parable to them, saying, The land of a certain rich man brought forth abundantly.

Romans 12:16

Have the same respect one for another, not minding high things, but going along with the lowly: be not wise in your own eyes:

1 Timothy 6:17

Enjoin on those rich in the present age not to be high-minded, nor to trust on the uncertainty of riches; but in the God who affords us all things richly for our enjoyment;

James 4:13-14

Go to now, ye who say, To-day or to-morrow will we go into such a city and spend a year there, and traffic and make gain,