1 ARST Then Yahweh gave me another message. He said: BSB BSB: And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
2 ARST “Son of man, give to the king of Tyre this message from me, Yahweh the Lord:‘You have very proudly claimed that you are a god, and that you are untouchable, since you sit on a throne in a city on an island in the sea! You boast that you are a god, but you are in reality only a man, not a god. BSB BSB: “Son of man, tell the ruler of Tyre that this is what the Lord GOD says: Your heart is proud, and you have said, ‘I am a god; I sit in the seat of gods in the heart of the sea.’ Yet you are a man and not a god, though you have regarded your heart as that of a god.
3 ARST You think that you are wiser than Daniel was, and you think that you can understand every secret. BSB BSB: Behold, you are wiser than Daniel; no secret is hidden from you!
4 ARST Because you were wise and shrewd in business, you have become very rich; you have acquired much gold and silver for your treasuries. BSB BSB: By your wisdom and understanding you have gained your wealth and amassed gold and silver for your treasuries.
5 ARST Yes, it is true that by buying and selling wisely, you have become very rich; and because you are rich, you have become very proud. BSB BSB: By your great skill in trading you have increased your wealth, but your heart has grown proud because of it.
6 ARST Therefore, Yahweh the Lord says that because you think that you are as wise as a god, BSB BSB: Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Because you regard your heart as the heart of a god,
7 ARST he will 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 you have marvelous wisdom, and they will ruin all your beautiful things and make them ugly. BSB BSB: behold, I will bring foreigners against you, the most ruthless of nations. They will draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom and will defile your splendor.
8 ARST They will bring you down to your grave; you will die violently like those who died in the sea. BSB BSB: They will bring you down to the Pit, and you will die a violent death in the heart of the seas.
9 ARST Then you will certainly not tell those who are killing you that you are a god, because they will know that you are not a god; you are only a man. BSB BSB: Will you still say, ‘I am a god,’ in the presence of those who slay you? You will be only a man, not a god, in the hands of those who wound you.
10 ARST You will die like other people die, those who are unacceptable to God, those whom foreigners kill. That will surely happen because Yahweh has said it.’” BSB BSB: You will die the death of the uncircumcised at the hands of foreigners. For I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD.”
11 ARST Yahweh also gave me this message: BSB BSB: Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
12 ARST “Son of man, sing a sad song about the king of Tyre. Tell him that Yahweh the Lord says this to him:‘You were completely perfect, extremely wise and handsome. BSB BSB: “Son of man, take up a lament for the king of Tyre and tell him that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You were the seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.
13 ARST You had a wonderful life, because you were in my beautiful garden in Eden. Your clothes were decorated with many kinds of very valuable stones— ruby, topaz, emerald, chrysolite, onyx, jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and beryl stones. Those stones were set in gold mountings which I prepared for you on the day that I created you. BSB BSB: You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every kind of precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and emerald. Your mountings and settings were crafted in gold, prepared on the day of your creation.
14 ARST I appointed you to be a strong angel to guard the people. I placed you on my holy mountain, and you walked among fiery stones. BSB BSB: You were anointed as a guardian cherub, for I had ordained you. You were on the holy mountain of God; you walked among the fiery stones.
15 ARST You were completely good in all that you did from the day that you were created, until you started to do wicked things. BSB BSB: From the day you were created you were blameless in your ways—until wickedness was found in you.
16 ARST Then you became busy buying and selling things, you started to act violently, and you sinned. So I disgraced you. You, the angel who was supposed to guard the people— I forced you to leave my own mountain; I forced you to leave those fiery stones. BSB BSB: By the vastness of your trade, you were filled with violence, and you sinned. So I drove you in disgrace from the mountain of God, and I banished you, O guardian cherub, from among the fiery stones.
17 ARST You were extremely proud because you were very handsome. Because you loved beautiful things, you did things that wise people do not do. So I threw you to the ground, and allowed other kings who saw you to laugh at you. BSB BSB: Your heart grew proud of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor; so I cast you to the earth; I made you a spectacle before kings.
18 ARST By committing many sins and by buying and selling things dishonestly, you caused the places where people worshiped me to become unacceptable to me. So I will make a fire that will burn your city down. Your city will be burned completely, and the people who watch it will see that what is left of the city will only be ashes. BSB BSB: By the multitude of your iniquities and the dishonesty of your trading you have profaned your sanctuaries. So I made fire come from within you, and it consumed you. I reduced you to ashes on the ground in the eyes of all who saw you.
19 ARST All the people who knew what your city was like previously will be appalled. Now your city will disappear, and it will not exist anymore.’” BSB BSB: All the nations who know you are appalled over you. You have come to a horrible end and will be no more.’”
20 ARST Then Yahweh gave me another message. He said, BSB BSB: Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
21 ARST “Son of man, turn toward the city of Sidon, and announce the terrible things that will happen to it. BSB BSB: “Son of man, set your face against Sidon and prophesy against her.
22 ARST Give the people of Sidon this message from Yahweh the Lord. Tell them:‘I am your enemy, you people of Sidon. By what I do to you, I will show you how great I am, and you will know that it is Yahweh who punishes you and judges you with justice. You will know that I am different from you, and that I will be honored by what I do to you! BSB BSB: And you are to declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I am against you, O Sidon, and I will be glorified within you. They will know that I am the LORD when I execute judgments against her and demonstrate My holiness through her.
23 ARST I will send a plague on you, and I will send enemies to come and kill you in your streets. They will attack you from every direction, and they will slaughter your people inside the walls of your city. Then everyone will know that I, Yahweh, have the power to do what I say that I will do.’ BSB BSB: I will send a plague against her and shed blood in her streets; the slain will fall within her, while the sword is against her on every side. Then they will know that I am the LORD.
24 ARST No longer will people who live near the people of Israel hurt them as painful briers and sharp thorns hurt people. And then the Israelites will know that I, Yahweh, have the power to do what I say that I will do.” BSB BSB: For the people of Israel will no longer face a pricking brier or a painful thorn from all around them who treat them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the Lord GOD.’
25 ARST And this is also what Yahweh the Lord says:“I will gather them from distant countries where I have scattered them. And the other people groups will see that I am set apart and honored, when the house of Israel makes their homes in the land I gave my servant Jacob! BSB BSB: This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘When I gather the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they have been scattered, I will show Myself holy among them in the sight of the nations. Then they will dwell in their own land, which I have given to My servant Jacob.
26 ARST My people will live safely in Israel; they will build houses and plant vineyards. And when I punish the nearby people groups that despised them, my people will know that it is I, Yahweh their God, who has done this.” BSB BSB: And there they will dwell securely, build houses, and plant vineyards. They will dwell securely when I execute judgments against all those around them who treat them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the LORD their God.’”
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