Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord Jehovah: Because your heart is lifted up, and you say, I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas, yet you are a man, and not the Mighty God, though you set your heart as the heart of God

by your great wisdom in trade you have increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches).

Your fame went out among the nations because of your beauty, for it was perfect through My splendor which I had bestowed upon you, declares the Lord Jehovah.

But you trusted in your own beauty, committed adultery because of your fame, and poured out your harlotry on everyone passing by who would have it.

Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah: Because you have increased in height, and it set its top among the thick boughs, and its heart was lifted up in its height,

Pride comes, then comes shame; but with the lowly is wisdom.

Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.

But He gives more grace. Therefore He says: God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.

Surely the rulers of Zoan are fools; the counsel of the wise counselors of Pharaoh has become stupid. How do you say to Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?

The rulers of Zoan have become fools, the rulers of Noph are deceived; they have also misled Egypt, the chief of her tribes.

The wise are ashamed, they are dismayed, and are captured. Lo, they have rejected the Word of Jehovah; so what wisdom is in them?

Professing to be wise, they become foolish,

Therefore God also gives them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves,

For it is written: I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and bring to nothing the understanding of the intelligent.

For since, in the wisdom of God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through the foolishness of the message preached to save those who are believing.

Scatter abroad the outburst of your anger; look upon everyone who is proud, and humiliate him.

Look upon everyone who is proud, and humble him; tread down the wicked in their place.

Surely You set them in slippery places; You cast them down to desolation.

Jehovah lifts up the lowly; He casts the wicked down to the ground.

And they shall burn your houses with fire, and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women; and I will put an end to your harlotry, and you shall no longer hire lovers.

Thus I will bring an end to lewdness from the land, that all women may be taught not to do according to your lewdness.

Yes, I will make many peoples astonished at you, and their kings shall be horribly afraid at you when I brandish My sword before them; and they shall tremble every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of your fall.

Sheol from below is excited over you, to meet you at your coming. It stirs up the dead for you, all the chief of the earth. It has raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.

Your arrogance is brought down to Sheol, and the noise of your lutes. The maggot is spread under you, and the worms cover you.