Ezekiel 28:3-11

³You even think you're wiser than Daniel and there's no secret that's hidden from you!

⁴Yes, you have used your wisdom and cleverness to make yourself rich, collecting plenty of gold and silver for your treasury.

⁵You became wealthy through your superb trading skills, but your wealth only made you proud.

⁶So this is what the Lord God says: Because you think that you're a god,

⁷watch as I bring foreigners to attack you. They are more cruel than any other nation. They will use their swords to destroy you and your wonderful wisdom; they will humble your proud glory.

⁸They will drag you down into the grave. You will die horribly out there in the sea.

⁹Are you still going to claim, ‘I'm a god,’ to those who are killing you? You'll just be another human victim, not a god, in the eyes of your attackers.

¹⁰You will be killed like some vile person by these foreigners. I myself have spoken, declares the Lord God.”

¹¹Another message from the Lord came to me, saying,