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28 Ja minulle tuli tämä Herran sana:

"Ihmislapsi, sano Tyyron ruhtinaalle: Näin sanoo Herra, Herra: Koska sinun sydämesi on ylpistynyt ja sinä sanot: 'Minä olen jumala, jumalain istuimella minä istun merten sydämessä', ja olet kuitenkin ihminen, et jumala, vaikka omasta mielestäsi olet jumalan vertainen -

ja katso, viisaampi sinä oletkin kuin Daniel, ei mikään salaisuus ole sinulta pimitetty;

viisaudessasi ja ymmärtäväisyydessäsi olet hankkinut itsellesi rikkautta, hankkinut kultaa ja hopeata aarreaittoihisi,

ja suuressa viisaudessasi olet kaupankäynnillä kartuttanut rikkautesi, ja niin sinun sydämesi on ylpistynyt rikkaudestasi -

sentähden, näin sanoo Herra, Herra: Koska omasta mielestäsi olet jumalan vertainen,

sentähden, katso, minä tuon sinun kimppuusi muukalaiset, julmimmat pakanoista; he paljastavat miekkansa sinun viisautesi kauneutta vastaan ja häpäisevät sinun ihanuutesi.

He syöksevät sinut alas kuoppaan, ja sinä kuolet, niinkuin kaadetut kuolevat, merten sydämessä.

Vieläköhän sanot surmaajasi edessä: 'Minä olen jumala', kun kuitenkin olet ihminen, et jumala, kaatajaisi käsissä?

10 Niinkuin kuolevat ympärileikkaamattomat, niin sinä kuolet muukalaisten käden kautta. Sillä minä olen puhunut, sanoo Herra, Herra."

11 Ja minulle tuli tämä Herran sana:

12 "Ihmislapsi, viritä itkuvirsi Tyyron kuninkaasta ja sano hänelle: Näin sanoo Herra, Herra: Sinä olet sopusuhtaisuuden sinetti, täynnä viisautta, täydellinen kauneudessa.

13 Eedenissä, Jumalan puutarhassa, sinä olit. Peitteenäsi olivat kaikkinaiset kalliit kivet; karneolia, topaasia ja jaspista, krysoliittia, onyksia ja berylliä, safiiria, rubiinia ja smaragdia sekä kultaa olivat upotus- ja syvennystyöt sinussa, valmistetut sinä päivänä, jona sinut luotiin.

14 Sinä olit kerubi, laajalti suojaavainen, ja minä asetin sinut pyhälle vuorelle; sinä olit jumal'olento ja käyskentelit säihkyväin kivien keskellä.

15 Nuhteeton sinä olit vaellukseltasi siitä päivästä, jona sinut luotiin, siihen saakka, kunnes sinussa löydettiin vääryys.

16 Suuressa kaupankäynnissäsi tuli sydämesi täyteen väkivaltaa, ja sinä teit syntiä. Niin minä karkoitin sinut häväistynä Jumalan vuorelta ja hävitin sinut, suojaava kerubi, pois säihkyväin kivien keskeltä.

17 Sinun sydämesi ylpistyi sinun kauneudestasi, ihanuutesi tähden sinä kadotit viisautesi. Minä viskasin sinut maahan, annoin sinut alttiiksi kuninkaille, heidän silmänherkukseen.

18 Paljoilla synneilläsi, tekemällä vääryyttä kaupoissasi, sinä olet häväissyt pyhäkkösi. Niin minä annoin sinun keskeltäsi puhjeta tulen; se kulutti sinut. Ja minä panin sinut tuhaksi maahan kaikkien silmäin edessä, jotka sinut näkivät.

19 Kaikki tuttavasi kansojen seassa ovat tyrmistyneet sinun tähtesi. Kauhuksi olet sinä tullut, eikä sinua enää ole, hamaan ikiaikoihin asti."

20 Ja minulle tuli tämä Herran sana:

21 "Ihmislapsi, käännä kasvosi Siidonia kohti ja ennusta sitä vastaan

22 ja sano: Näin sanoo Herra, Herra: Katso, minä käyn sinun kimppuusi, Siidon, ja näytän kunniani sinun keskuudessasi. Ja he tulevat tietämään, että minä olen Herra, kun minä siinä panen toimeen tuomiot ja näytän siinä pyhyyteni.

23 Minä lähetän sinne ruton ja verta sen kaduille, ja kaatuneita on viruva sen keskellä, kaatuneita miekkaan, joka käy sen kimppuun joka taholta. Ja he tulevat tietämään, että minä olen Herra.

24 Sitten ei Israelin heimolle enää ole pistävänä orjantappurana eikä vaivaavana ohdakkeena yksikään sen naapureista, jotka ovat heitä halveksineet. Ja he tulevat tietämään, että minä olen Herra, Herra.

25 Näin sanoo Herra, Herra: Kun minä kokoan Israelin heimon kansoista, joitten sekaan he ovat hajotetut, silloin minä näytän pyhyyteni heissä pakanakansain silmien edessä, ja he saavat asua maassansa, jonka minä annoin palvelijalleni Jaakobille.

26 He asuvat siinä turvallisesti ja rakentavat taloja ja istuttavat viinitarhoja. Turvallisesti he asuvat, kun minä panen toimeen tuomiot kaikille heidän naapureillensa, jotka ovat heitä halveksineet. Ja he tulevat tietämään, että minä olen Herra, heidän Jumalansa."

A Prophecy Against the King of Tyre

28 The word of the Lord came to me: “Son of man(A), say to the ruler of Tyre, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says:

“‘In the pride of your heart
    you say, “I am a god;
I sit on the throne(B) of a god
    in the heart of the seas.”(C)
But you are a mere mortal and not a god,
    though you think you are as wise as a god.(D)
Are you wiser than Daniel[a]?(E)
    Is no secret hidden from you?
By your wisdom and understanding
    you have gained wealth for yourself
and amassed gold and silver
    in your treasuries.(F)
By your great skill in trading(G)
    you have increased your wealth,(H)
and because of your wealth
    your heart has grown proud.(I)

“‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says:

“‘Because you think you are wise,
    as wise as a god,
I am going to bring foreigners against you,
    the most ruthless of nations;(J)
they will draw their swords against your beauty and wisdom(K)
    and pierce your shining splendor.(L)
They will bring you down to the pit,(M)
    and you will die a violent death(N)
    in the heart of the seas.(O)
Will you then say, “I am a god,”
    in the presence of those who kill you?
You will be but a mortal, not a god,(P)
    in the hands of those who slay you.(Q)
10 You will die the death of the uncircumcised(R)
    at the hands of foreigners.

I have spoken, declares the Sovereign Lord.’”

11 The word of the Lord came to me: 12 “Son of man, take up a lament(S) concerning the king of Tyre and say to him: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says:

“‘You were the seal of perfection,
    full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.(T)
13 You were in Eden,(U)
    the garden of God;(V)
every precious stone(W) adorned you:
    carnelian, chrysolite and emerald,
    topaz, onyx and jasper,
    lapis lazuli, turquoise(X) and beryl.[b]
Your settings and mountings[c] were made of gold;
    on the day you were created they were prepared.(Y)
14 You were anointed(Z) as a guardian cherub,(AA)
    for so I ordained you.
You were on the holy mount of God;
    you walked among the fiery stones.
15 You were blameless in your ways
    from the day you were created
    till wickedness was found in you.
16 Through your widespread trade
    you were filled with violence,(AB)
    and you sinned.
So I drove you in disgrace from the mount of God,
    and I expelled you, guardian cherub,(AC)
    from among the fiery stones.
17 Your heart became proud(AD)
    on account of your beauty,
and you corrupted your wisdom
    because of your splendor.
So I threw you to the earth;
    I made a spectacle of you before kings.(AE)
18 By your many sins and dishonest trade
    you have desecrated your sanctuaries.
So I made a fire(AF) come out from you,
    and it consumed you,
and I reduced you to ashes(AG) on the ground
    in the sight of all who were watching.(AH)
19 All the nations who knew you
    are appalled(AI) at you;
you have come to a horrible end
    and will be no more.(AJ)’”

A Prophecy Against Sidon

20 The word of the Lord came to me: 21 “Son of man, set your face against(AK) Sidon;(AL) prophesy against her 22 and say: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says:

“‘I am against you, Sidon,
    and among you I will display my glory.(AM)
You will know that I am the Lord,
    when I inflict punishment(AN) on you
    and within you am proved to be holy.(AO)
23 I will send a plague upon you
    and make blood flow in your streets.
The slain will fall within you,
    with the sword against you on every side.
Then you will know that I am the Lord.(AP)

24 “‘No longer will the people of Israel have malicious neighbors who are painful briers and sharp thorns.(AQ) Then they will know that I am the Sovereign Lord.

25 “‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: When I gather(AR) the people of Israel from the nations where they have been scattered,(AS) I will be proved holy(AT) through them in the sight of the nations. Then they will live in their own land, which I gave to my servant Jacob.(AU) 26 They will live there in safety(AV) and will build houses and plant(AW) vineyards; they will live in safety when I inflict punishment(AX) on all their neighbors who maligned them. Then they will know that I am the Lord their God.(AY)’”

Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 28:3 Or Danel, a man of renown in ancient literature
  2. Ezekiel 28:13 The precise identification of some of these precious stones is uncertain.
  3. Ezekiel 28:13 The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.

28 The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying,

Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord God; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God:

Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee:

With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures:

By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:

Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God;

Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness.

They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas.

Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but thou shalt be a man, and no God, in the hand of him that slayeth thee.

10 Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God.

11 Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,

12 Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord God; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.

13 Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.

14 Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.

15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.

16 By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.

17 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.

18 Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.

19 All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more.

20 Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,

21 Son of man, set thy face against Zidon, and prophesy against it,

22 And say, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, O Zidon; and I will be glorified in the midst of thee: and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall have executed judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her.

23 For I will send into her pestilence, and blood into her streets; and the wounded shall be judged in the midst of her by the sword upon her on every side; and they shall know that I am the Lord.

24 And there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the house of Israel, nor any grieving thorn of all that are round about them, that despised them; and they shall know that I am the Lord God.

25 Thus saith the Lord God; When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, then shall they dwell in their land that I have given to my servant Jacob.

26 And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall build houses, and plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with confidence, when I have executed judgments upon all those that despise them round about them; and they shall know that I am the Lord their God.