Ezekiel 28:17 “Your heart grew proud of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom becaus…”

Ezekiel 28:17

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.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.

World English Bible

Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty. You have corrupted your wisdom by reason of your splendor. I have cast you to the ground. I have laid you before kings, that they may see you.

American Standard Version

Thy heart was lifted up because of thy beauty; thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I have cast thee to the ground; I have laid thee before kings, that they may behold thee.

Geneva Bible 1599

Thine heart was lifted vp because of thy beautie, and thou hast corrupted thy wisedome by reason of thy brightnes: I wil cast thee to ye grounde: I will lay thee before Kinges that they may beholde thee.

Darby Translation

Thy heart was lifted up because of thy beauty; thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I have cast thee to the ground, I have laid thee before kings, that they may behold thee.

Young's Literal Translation

High hath been thy heart, because of thy beauty, Thou hast corrupted thy wisdom because of thy brightness, On the earth I have cast thee, Before kings I have set thee, to look on thee,

Bible in Basic English

Your heart was lifted up because you were beautiful, you made your wisdom evil through your sin: I have sent you down, even to the earth; I have made you low before kings, so that they may see you.

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Cross references

“heart”

Ezekiel 28:5 Ezekiel 31:10 Proverbs 16:18 James 4:6 Ezekiel 28:2 Luke 14:11

Ezekiel 28:5 · BSB

By your great skill in trading you have increased your wealth, but your heart has grown proud because of it.

Ezekiel 31:10 · BSB

Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Since it became great in height and set its top among the clouds, and it grew proud on account of its height,

Proverbs 16:18 · BSB

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

James 4:6 · BSB

But He gives us more grace. This is why it says: “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

Ezekiel 28:2 · 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 yo…

Luke 14:11 · BSB

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”

“thou hast”

Isaiah 19:11–13 Jeremiah 8:9 Romans 1:22–25 1 Corinthians 1:19–21

Isaiah 19:11–13 · BSB

The princes of Zoan are mere fools; Pharaoh’s wise counselors give senseless advice. How can you say to Pharaoh, “I am one of the wise, a son of eastern kings”?

Jeremiah 8:9 · BSB

The wise will be put to shame; they will be dismayed and trapped. Since they have rejected the word of the LORD, what wisdom do they really have?

Romans 1:22–25 · BSB

Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools,

1 Corinthians 1:19–21 · BSB

For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.”

“I will cast”

Psalm 147:6 Psalm 73:18 Job 40:11 Job 40:12

Psalm 147:6 · BSB

The LORD sustains the humble, but casts the wicked to the ground.

Psalm 73:18 · BSB

Surely You set them on slick ground; You cast them down into ruin.

Job 40:11 · BSB

Unleash the fury of your wrath; look on every proud man and bring him low.

Job 40:12 · BSB

Look on every proud man and humble him; trample the wicked where they stand.

“I will lay”

Ezekiel 32:10 Ezekiel 16:41 Ezekiel 23:48 Isaiah 14:9–11

Ezekiel 32:10 · BSB

I will cause many peoples to be appalled over you, and their kings will shudder in horror because of you when I brandish My sword before them. On the day of your downfall each of them will tremble every moment for his li…

Ezekiel 16:41 · BSB

Then they will burn down your houses and execute judgment against you in the sight of many women. I will put an end to your prostitution, and you will never again pay your lovers.

Ezekiel 23:48 · BSB

So I will put an end to indecency in the land, and all the women will be admonished not to imitate your behavior.

Isaiah 14:9–11 · BSB

Sheol beneath is eager to meet you upon your arrival. It stirs the spirits of the dead to greet you— all the rulers of the earth. It makes all the kings of the nations rise from their thrones.

Also

Ezekiel 28:7

Ezekiel 28:7 · 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.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

16By 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.

18By 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.

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