Ezekiel 28:14

KJV1611 – Modern English

You are the anointed cherub who covers; and I have set you so: you were upon the holy mountain of God; you have walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    You were an anointed guardian cherub, and I placed you on the holy mountain of God. You walked among the stones of fire.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    You were the anointed{H4473} cherub{H3742} that covers:{H5526} and I set{H5414} you, [so that] you were upon the holy{H6944} mountain{H2022} of God;{H430} you have walked up and down{H1980} in the midst{H8432} of the stones{H68} of fire.{H784}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    Thou art the anointed{H4473} cherub{H3742} that covereth{H5526}{(H8802)}; and I have set{H5414}{(H8804)} thee so: thou wast upon the holy{H6944} mountain{H2022} of God{H430}; thou hast walked up and down{H1980}{(H8694)} in the midst{H8432} of the stones{H68} of fire{H784}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Thou art a fayre Cherub, stretched wyde out for to couer. I haue set the vpon the holy mount off God, there hast thou bene, and walked amoge the fayre glisteringe stones.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Thou art the anointed Cherub, that couereth, and I haue set thee in honour: thou wast vpon the holy mountaine of God: thou hast walked in the middes of the stones of fire.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Thou art an annoynted Cherub, that couereth, and I haue set thee in this dignitie, thou wast vpon the holy mount of God, thou hast walked in the mids of the stones of fire.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    Thou [art] the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee [so]: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    You were the anointed cherub who covers: and I set you, [so that] you were on the holy mountain of God; you have walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    Thou `art' an anointed cherub who is covering, And I have set thee in the holy mount, God thou hast been, In the midst of stones of fire thou hast walked up and down.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Thou wast the anointed cherub that covereth: and I set thee, `so that' thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    Thou wast the anointed cherub that covereth: and I set thee, [so that] thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    I gave you your place with the winged one; I put you on the mountain of God; you went up and down among the stones of fire.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    You were the anointed cherub who covers: and I set you, [so that] you were on the holy mountain of God; you have walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    I placed you there with an anointed guardian cherub; you were on the holy mountain of God; you walked about amidst fiery stones.

Referenced Verses

  • Exod 25:17-20 : 17 And you shall make a mercy seat of pure gold: two and a half cubits shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its width. 18 And you shall make two cherubim of gold; of hammered work shall you make them, at the two ends of the mercy seat. 19 Make one cherub at one end, and the other cherub at the other end; from the mercy seat you shall make the cherubim on its two ends. 20 And the cherubim shall stretch out their wings upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces shall look toward one another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubim be.
  • Exod 30:26 : 26 And you shall anoint the tabernacle of meeting with it, and the ark of the testimony,
  • Exod 40:9 : 9 And you shall take the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle, and all that is therein, and shall hallow it, and all the vessels thereof, and it shall be holy.
  • Ezek 20:40 : 40 For on my holy mountain, in the mountain height of Israel, says the Lord GOD, there shall all the house of Israel, all of them in the land, serve me: there will I accept them, and there will I require your offerings, and the firstfruits of your offerings, with all your holy things.
  • Ezek 28:13 : 13 You have been in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was your covering, the sardius, topaz, and diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of your tambourines and of your pipes was prepared in you in the day that you were created.
  • Rev 18:16 : 16 And saying, Alas, alas, that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and adorned with gold, and precious stones, and pearls!
  • Exod 9:16 : 16 And indeed, for this purpose, I have raised you up, to show in you my power; that my name may be declared throughout all the earth.
  • Ezek 28:16-17 : 16 By the abundance of your trading they have filled your midst with violence, and you have sinned: therefore I will cast you as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy you, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. 17 Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty, you have corrupted your wisdom by reason of your brightness: I will cast you to the ground, I will lay you before kings, that they may behold you.
  • Dan 2:37-38 : 37 You, O king, are a king of kings, for the God of heaven has given you a kingdom, power, strength, and glory. 38 And wherever the children of men dwell, or the beasts of the field and the birds of the heavens, he has given them into your hand, and has made you ruler over them all. You are this head of gold.
  • Dan 4:35 : 35 And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing, and He does according to His will in the army of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay His hand, or say to Him, What are you doing?
  • Dan 5:18-23 : 18 O king, the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your father a kingdom, majesty, glory, and honor. 19 And because of the majesty that he gave him, all peoples, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him; whomever he wished, he executed; whomever he wished, he kept alive; whomever he wished, he set up; and whomever he wished, he put down. 20 But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened with pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him. 21 Then he was driven from the sons of men; his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys. They fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till he knew that the Most High God rules in the kingdom of men, and that He appoints over it whomever He chooses. 22 And you his son, O Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, though you knew all this. 23 But you have lifted yourself up against the Lord of heaven. They have brought the vessels of His house before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines have drunk wine from them, and you have praised the gods of silver, and gold, brass, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see or hear or know; and the God who holds your breath in His hand and owns all your ways, you have not glorified.
  • Ezek 28:2 : 2 Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord GOD; Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet you are a man and not God, though you set your heart as the heart of God:
  • 2 Thess 2:4 : 4 Who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped; so that he as God sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.
  • Rev 9:17 : 17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision; those who sat on them had breastplates of fiery red, hyacinth blue, and sulfur yellow; and the heads of the horses were like the heads of lions; and out of their mouths came fire, smoke, and brimstone.
  • Ps 75:5-7 : 5 Do not lift your horn on high; do not speak with a stiff neck. 6 For promotion comes neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. 7 But God is the judge; he puts down one and exalts another.
  • Isa 10:6 : 6 I will send him against a hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
  • Isa 10:15 : 15 Shall the ax boast against him who cuts with it? Or shall the saw magnify itself against him who shakes it? As if the rod should shake itself against those who lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were not wood.
  • Isa 14:12-15 : 12 How are you fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How are you cut down to the ground, who did weaken the nations! 13 For you have said in your heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will also sit upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the Most High. 15 Yet you will be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
  • Isa 37:26-27 : 26 Have you not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? Now have I brought it to pass, that you should lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps. 27 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as grain blighted before it is grown up.
  • John 11:51 : 51 Now this he did not say on his own authority: but being high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation;

Similar Verses (AI)

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    12 Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyre, and say to him, Thus says the Lord GOD; You seal up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.

    13 You have been in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was your covering, the sardius, topaz, and diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of your tambourines and of your pipes was prepared in you in the day that you were created.

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    15 You were perfect in your ways from the day that you were created, until iniquity was found in you.

    16 By the abundance of your trading they have filled your midst with violence, and you have sinned: therefore I will cast you as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy you, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.

    17 Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty, you have corrupted your wisdom by reason of your brightness: I will cast you to the ground, I will lay you before kings, that they may behold you.

    18 You have defiled your sanctuaries by the multitude of your iniquities, by the iniquity of your trading; therefore I will bring forth a fire from the midst of you, it shall devour you, and I will bring you to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all who behold you.

  • Isa 14:11-15
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    11 Your pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of your viols: the worm is spread under you, and the worms cover you.

    12 How are you fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How are you cut down to the ground, who did weaken the nations!

    13 For you have said in your heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will also sit upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:

    14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the Most High.

    15 Yet you will be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.

  • Ezek 28:1-2
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    1 The word of the LORD came again to me, saying,

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

  • Ezek 10:1-2
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    1 Then I looked, and, behold, in the sky above the head of the cherubim there appeared over them what looked like a sapphire stone, resembling a throne.

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  • Ezek 31:8-10
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    8 The cedars in the garden of God could not hide it; the fir trees were not like its boughs, and the chestnut trees were not like its branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like it in beauty.

    9 I made it beautiful by the multitude of its branches, so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied it.

    10 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Because you have lifted yourself up in height, and it has set its top among the thick boughs, and its heart is lifted up in its height;

  • Obad 1:3-4
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    3 The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rock, whose dwelling is high; who says in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?

    4 Though you exalt yourself like the eagle, and though you set your nest among the stars, from there I will bring you down, says the LORD.

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    13 Thus you were adorned with gold and silver; and your clothing was of fine linen, silk, and embroidered work; you ate fine flour, honey, and oil; you were exceedingly beautiful, and you prospered into a kingdom.

    14 And your fame went out among the nations for your beauty; for it was perfect through my splendor, which I had bestowed upon you, says the Lord GOD.

  • Ezek 1:26-27
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    26 And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone; and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it.

    27 And I saw as the color of amber, as the appearance of fire all around within it, from the appearance of his waist even upward, and from the appearance of his waist even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness all around.

  • 7 And one cherub stretched forth his hand from between the cherubim to the fire that was between the cherubim, and took it, and put it into the hands of the man clothed with linen, who took it and went out.

  • 6 Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Because you have set your heart as the heart of God;

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    10 For it is written, He shall give his angels charge over you, to keep you:

    11 And in their hands they shall lift you up, lest at any time you dash your foot against a stone.

  • 22 Then the cherubim lifted up their wings, and the wheels beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.

  • 7 You made him a little lower than the angels; You crowned him with glory and honor, and set him over the works of Your hands:

  • 12 They shall bear you up in their hands, lest you dash your foot against a stone.

  • 24 So He drove out the man; and He placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.

  • Isa 37:23-24
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    23 Whom have you reproached and blasphemed? and against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.

    24 By your servants you have reproached the Lord, and have said, By the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down its tall cedars and its choice fir trees: and I will enter the height of its border, the forest of its Carmel.

  • 17 And you shall put settings of stones in it, four rows of stones: the first row shall be a sardius, a topaz, and an emerald;

  • 7 On a lofty and high mountain you have set your bed; even there you went up to offer sacrifice.

  • 7 And the LORD said to Satan, "Where have you come from?" Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, "From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking back and forth on it."

  • 3 And He who sat there was like a jasper and a sardius stone in appearance; and there was a rainbow around the throne, in appearance like an emerald.

  • 16 I made the nations to shake at the sound of its fall, when I cast it down to hell with those who descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the lower parts of the earth.

  • 2 And the LORD said to Satan, Where do you come from? And Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro on the earth, and from walking up and down in it.

  • 6 Its stones are the place of sapphires, and it has dust of gold.

  • 13 As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps: it went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.

  • 16 Your terribleness has deceived you, and the pride of your heart, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill. Though you make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there, says the LORD.

  • 22 And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the living creature was as the color of an awesome crystal, stretched forth over their heads above.

  • 18 Surely You set them in slippery places; You cast them down to destruction.

  • 4 You are more glorious and excellent than the mountains of prey.

  • 3 And say to Tyre, O you who are situated at the entry of the sea, a merchant of the peoples for many islands, Thus says the Lord GOD; O Tyre, you have said, I am of perfect beauty.

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    5 For you have made him a little lower than the angels, and have crowned him with glory and honor.