Ezekiel 28:3-11

³You think that you are wiser than Daniel was, and you think that you can understand every secret.

⁴By being wise and understanding a lot, you have become very rich; you have acquired much gold and silver for your treasuries.

⁵Yes, it is true that by trading wisely, you have been enabled to become very rich, and because you are rich, you have become very proud.

⁶Therefore, this is what Yahweh the Lord says: Because you think that you are as wise as a god,

⁷I will now bring a foreign army to attack your country, an army that causes other nations to be terrified. They will pull out their swords to strike you, you who think that IRO you have marvelous/great wisdom, and they will destroy all your beautiful things.

⁸They will bring you down to your grave; you will die violently like MET those who died in the sea.

⁹Then you will certainly not RHQ say to those who are killing you, “I am a god!” because they will know that you are not a god; you are only a man.

¹⁰You will die like other people who are unacceptable to me die, killed by foreigners. That will surely happen because I, Yahweh, have said it.’ ”

¹¹Yahweh also gave me this message: