World English Bible
Ezekiel 28:7
“therefore, behold, I will bring strangers on you, the terrible of the nations; and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom, and they shall defile your brightness.”
Verse in context — Ezekiel 28
5
by your great wisdom [and] by your traffic you have increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches--
6
therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have set your heart as the heart of God,
7
therefore, behold, I will bring strangers on you, the terrible of the nations; and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom, and they shall defile your brightness.
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They shall bring you down to the pit; and you shall die the death of those who are slain, in the heart of the seas.
9
Will you yet say before him who kills you, I am God? but you are man, and not God, in the hand of him who wounds you.
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