You think you are wiser than Danel, that no secret can be kept from you.

You made clever business deals and kept on making profits. How proud you are of your wealth!

that city which stands at the edge of the sea and does business with the people living on every seacoast. Tell her what the Sovereign LORD is saying: "Tyre, you boasted of your perfect beauty.

Your home is the sea. Your builders made you like a beautiful ship;

You were proud of being handsome, and your fame made you act like a fool. Because of this I hurled you to the ground and left you as a warning to other kings.

You did such evil in buying and selling that your places of worship were corrupted. So I set fire to the city and burned it to the ground. All who look at you now see you reduced to ashes.

Then God said, "And now we will make human beings; they will be like us and resemble us. They will have power over the fish, the birds, and all animals, domestic and wild, large and small."

So God created human beings, making them to be like himself. He created them male and female,

God looked at everything he had made, and he was very pleased. Evening passed and morning came---that was the sixth day.

When the LORD saw how wicked everyone on earth was and how evil their thoughts were all the time,

he was sorry that he had ever made them and put them on the earth. He was so filled with regret

Righteousness makes a nation great; sin is a disgrace to any nation.

This is all that I have learned: God made us plain and simple, but we have made ourselves very complicated.

King of Babylon, bright morning star, you have fallen from heaven! In the past you conquered nations, but now you have been thrown to the ground.

Nothing is left of all we were proud of. We sinned, and now we are doomed.

I myself was once alive apart from law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life,

God did not spare the angels who sinned, but threw them into hell, where they are kept chained in darkness, waiting for the Day of Judgment.