Ezekiel 28:17

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Your heart was proud because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom on account of your splendor. I threw you down to the ground; I placed you before kings, that they might see you.

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  • Ezek 31:10 : 10 “‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Because it was tall in stature, and its top reached into the clouds, and it was proud of its height,
  • Ezek 28:2 : 2 “Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre,‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says:“‘Your heart is proud and you said,“I am a god; I sit in the seat of gods, in the heart of the seas”– yet you are a man and not a god, though you think you are godlike.
  • Ezek 28:5 : 5 By your great skill in trade you have increased your wealth, and your heart is proud because of your wealth.
  • Ezek 28:7 : 7 I am about to bring foreigners against you, the most terrifying of nations. They will draw their swords against the grandeur made by your wisdom, and they will defile your splendor.
  • Ezek 32:10 : 10 I will shock many peoples with you, and their kings will shiver with horror because of you. When I brandish my sword before them, every moment each one will tremble for his life, on the day of your fall.
  • Luke 14:11 : 11 For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”
  • Rom 1:22-25 : 22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for an image resembling mortal human beings or birds or four-footed animals or reptiles. 24 Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity, to dishonor their bodies among themselves. 25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worshiped and served the creation rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
  • 1 Cor 1:19-21 : 19 For it is written,“I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and I will thwart the cleverness of the intelligent.” 20 Where is the wise man? Where is the expert in the Mosaic law? Where is the debater of this age? Has God not made the wisdom of the world foolish? 21 For since in the wisdom of God the world by its wisdom did not know God, God was pleased to save those who believe by the foolishness of preaching.
  • Jas 4:6 : 6 But he gives greater grace. Therefore it says,“God opposes the proud, but he gives grace to the humble.”
  • Job 40:11-12 : 11 Scatter abroad the abundance of your anger. Look at every proud man and bring him low; 12 Look at every proud man and abase him; crush the wicked on the spot!
  • Ps 73:18 : 18 Surely you put them in slippery places; you bring them down to ruin.
  • Ps 147:6 : 6 The LORD lifts up the oppressed, but knocks the wicked to the ground.
  • Prov 11:2 : 2 After pride came, disgrace followed; but wisdom came with humility.
  • Prov 16:18 : 18 Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
  • Isa 14:9-9 : 9 Sheol below is stirred up about you, ready to meet you when you arrive. It rouses the spirits of the dead for you, all the former leaders of the earth; it makes all the former kings of the nations rise from their thrones. 10 All of them respond to you, saying:‘You too have become weak like us! You have become just like us! 11 Your splendor has been brought down to Sheol, as well as the sound of your stringed instruments. You lie on a bed of maggots, with a blanket of worms over you.
  • Isa 19:11-13 : 11 The officials of Zoan are nothing but fools; Pharaoh’s wise advisers give stupid advice. How dare you say to Pharaoh,“I am one of the sages, one well-versed in the writings of the ancient kings?” 12 But where, oh where, are your wise men? Let them tell you, let them find out what the LORD of Heaven’s Armies has planned for Egypt. 13 The officials of Zoan are fools, the officials of Memphis are misled; the rulers of her tribes lead Egypt astray.
  • Jer 8:9 : 9 Your wise men will be put to shame. They will be dumbfounded and be brought to judgment. Since they have rejected the LORD’s message, what wisdom do they really have?
  • Ezek 16:14-15 : 14 Your fame spread among the nations because of your beauty; your beauty was perfect because of the splendor which I bestowed on you, declares the Sovereign LORD. 15 “‘But you trusted in your beauty and capitalized on your fame by becoming a prostitute. You offered your sexual favors to every man who passed by so that your beauty became his.
  • Ezek 16:41 : 41 They will burn down your houses and execute judgments on you in front of many women. Thus I will put a stop to your prostitution, and you will no longer give gifts to your clients.
  • Ezek 23:48 : 48 I will put an end to the obscene conduct in the land; all the women will learn a lesson from this and not engage in obscene conduct.

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    12“Son of man, sing a lament for the king of Tyre, and say to him,‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says:“‘You were the sealer of perfection, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.

    13You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every precious stone was your covering, the ruby, topaz, and emerald, the chrysolite, onyx, and jasper, the sapphire, turquoise, and beryl; your settings and mounts were made of gold. On the day you were created they were prepared.

    14I placed you there with an anointed guardian cherub; you were on the holy mountain of God; you walked about amidst fiery stones.

    15You were blameless in your behavior from the day you were created, until sin was discovered in you.

    16In the abundance of your trade you were filled with violence, and you sinned; so I defiled you and banished you from the mountain of God– the guardian cherub expelled you from the midst of the stones of fire.

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