Ezekiel 28:6
Good News Translation
"Now then, this is what I, the Sovereign LORD, am saying: Because you think you are as wise as a god,

New Revised Standard Version
Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you compare your mind with the mind of a god,

Contemporary English Version
You compared yourself to a god, so now I, the LORD God,

New American Bible
Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Because you pretend you are a god at heart,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Therefore, thus saith the Lord God: Because thy heart is lifted up as the heart of God:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Therefore, thus saith the Lord God: Because thy heart is lifted up as the heart of God:

Because

Ezekiel 28:2 Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre: Thus saith the Lord God: Because thy heart is lifted up, and thou hast said: I am God, and I sit in the chair of God in the heart of the sea: whereas thou art a man, and not God: and hast set thy heart as if it were the heart of God.

Exodus 9:17 Dost thou yet hold back my people; and wilt thou not let them go?

Job 9:4 He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath resisted him, and hath had peace?

Job 40:9-12 And hast thou an arm like God, and canst thou thunder with a voice like him? . . .

1 Corinthians 10:22 Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he? All things are lawful for me: but all things are not expedient.

2 Thessalonians 2:4 Who opposeth and is lifted up above all that is called God or that is worshipped, so that he sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself as if he were God.

James 1:11 For the sun rose with a burning heat and parched the grass: and the flower thereof fell off, and the beauty of the shape thereof perished. So also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

Context
Prophecy Against the King of Tyre
5By the greatness of thy wisdom, and by thy traffic thou hast increased thy strength: and thy heart is lifted up with thy strength. 6Therefore, thus saith the Lord God: Because thy heart is lifted up as the heart of God:7Therefore behold, I will bring upon thee strangers: the strongest of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy beauty.…
Cross References
Exodus 9:17
Dost thou yet hold back my people; and wilt thou not let them go?

Ezekiel 28:2
Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre: Thus saith the Lord God: Because thy heart is lifted up, and thou hast said: I am God, and I sit in the chair of God in the heart of the sea: whereas thou art a man, and not God: and hast set thy heart as if it were the heart of God.

Ezekiel 28:5
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