Ezekiel 28:9
Will you still say,“I am a god,” before the one who kills you– though you are a man and not a god– when you are in the power of those who wound you?
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Referenced Verses
- 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.
- Ps 82:7 : 7 Yet you will die like mortals; you will fall like all the other rulers.”
- Isa 31:3 : 3 The Egyptians are mere humans, not God; their horses are made of flesh, not spirit. The LORD will strike with his hand; the one who helps will stumble and the one being helped will fall. Together they will perish.
- Dan 4:31-32 : 31 While these words were still on the king’s lips, a voice came down from heaven:“It is hereby announced to you, King Nebuchadnezzar, that your kingdom has been removed from you! 32 You will be driven from human society, and you will live with the wild animals. You will be fed grass like oxen, and seven periods of time will pass by for you before you understand that the Most High is ruler over human kingdoms and gives them to whomever he wishes.”
- Dan 5:23-30 : 23 Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. You brought before you the vessels from his temple, and you and your nobles, together with your wives and concubines, drank wine from them. You praised the gods of silver, gold, bronze, iron, wood, and stone– gods that cannot see or hear or comprehend! But you have not glorified the God who has in his control your very breath and all your ways! 24 Therefore the palm of a hand was sent from him, and this writing was inscribed. 25 “This is the writing that was inscribed: MENE, MENE, TEQEL, and PHARSIN. 26 This is the interpretation of the words: As for mene– God has numbered your kingdom’s days and brought it to an end. 27 As for teqel– you are weighed on the balances and found to be lacking. 28 As for peres– your kingdom is divided and given over to the Medes and Persians.” 29 Then, on Belshazzar’s orders, Daniel was clothed in purple, a golden collar was placed around his neck, and he was proclaimed third ruler in the kingdom. 30 And in that very night Belshazzar, the Babylonian king, was killed.
- Acts 12:22-23 : 22 But the crowd began to shout,“The voice of a god, and not of a man!” 23 Immediately an angel of the Lord struck Herod down because he did not give the glory to God, and he was eaten by worms and died.
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- Ezek 28:10-112 verses85%
10 You will die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of foreigners; for I have spoken, declares the Sovereign LORD.’”
11 The LORD’s message came to me:
- Ezek 28:6-83 verses81%
6 “‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Because you think you are godlike,
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.
8 They will bring you down to the Pit, and you will die violently in the heart of the seas.
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28 “But as for you, in the midst of the uncircumcised you will be broken, and you will lie with those killed by the sword.
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18 Which of the trees of Eden was like you in majesty and loftiness? You will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the lower parts of the earth; you will lie among the uncircumcised, with those killed by the sword! This is what will happen to Pharaoh and all his hordes, declares the Sovereign LORD.’”
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21 I will bring terrors on you, and you will be no more! Though you are sought after, you will never be found again, declares the Sovereign LORD.”
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8 “‘Therefore, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: Look, I am about to bring a sword against you, and I will kill every person and every animal.
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7 Therefore, this is what the Sovereign LORD says:‘The corpses you have dumped in the midst of the city are the meat, and this city is the cooking pot, but I will take you out of it.
8 You fear the sword, so the sword I will bring against you,’ declares the Sovereign LORD.
9 ‘But I will take you out of the city. And I will hand you over to foreigners. I will execute judgments on you.
10 You will die by the sword; I will judge you at the border of Israel. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
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7 Yet you will die like mortals; you will fall like all the other rulers.”
- Ezek 28:1-22 verses73%
1 A Prophecy Against the King of Tyre The LORD’s message came to me:
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.
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7 The slain will fall among you and then you will know that I am the LORD.
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39 The Vindication of the Lord“See now that I, indeed I, am he!” says the LORD,“and there is no other god besides me. I kill and give life, I smash and I heal, and none can resist my power.
- Ezek 28:19-202 verses72%
19 All who know you among the peoples are shocked at you; you have become terrified and will be no more.’”
20 A Prophecy Against Sidon The LORD’s message came to me:
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9 He said to me,‘Stand over me and finish me off! I’m very dizzy, even though I’m still alive.’
- Ezek 39:3-53 verses72%
3 I will knock your bow out of your left hand and make your arrows fall from your right hand.
4 You will fall dead on the mountains of Israel, you and all your troops and the people who are with you. I give you as food to every kind of bird and every wild beast.
5 You will fall dead in the open field; for I have spoken, declares the Sovereign LORD.
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32 You will become fuel for the fire– your blood will stain the middle of the land; you will no longer be remembered, for I, the LORD, have spoken.’”
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19 But you have been thrown out of your grave like a shoot that is thrown away. You lie among the slain, among those who have been slashed by the sword, among those headed for the stones of the Pit, as if you were a mangled corpse.
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7 take note, I have stretched out my hand against you, and I will hand you over as plunder to the nations. I will cut you off from the peoples and make you perish from the lands. I will destroy you; then you will know that I am the LORD.’”
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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.
11 “‘For this is what the Sovereign LORD says:“‘The sword of the king of Babylon will attack you.
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8 When I say to the wicked,‘O wicked man, you must certainly die,’ and you do not warn the wicked about his behavior, the wicked man will die for his iniquity, but I will hold you accountable for his death.
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19 Say to them,‘Whom do you surpass in beauty? Go down and be laid to rest with the uncircumcised!’
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29 while seeing false visions for you and reading lying omens for you– to place that sword on the necks of the profane wicked, whose day has come, the time of final punishment.
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13 “‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Because they are saying to you,“You are a devourer of men, and bereave your nation of children,”
14 therefore you will no longer devour people and no longer bereave your nation of children, declares the Sovereign LORD.
15 I will no longer subject you to the nations’ insults; no longer will you bear the shame of the peoples, and no longer will you bereave your nation, declares the Sovereign LORD.’”
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15 But you were brought down to Sheol, to the remote slopes of the Pit.
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8 “Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I– even I– am against you, and I will execute judgment among you while the nations watch.
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32 Indeed, I terrified him in the land of the living, yet he will lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with those killed by the sword, Pharaoh and all his hordes, declares the Sovereign LORD.”
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20 But who indeed are you– a mere human being– to talk back to God? Does what is molded say to the molder,“Why have you made me like this?”
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40 They will summon a mob who will stone you and hack you in pieces with their swords.
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8 I will set my face against that person and will make him an object lesson and a byword and will cut him off from among my people. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
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4 you are guilty because of the blood you shed and defiled by the idols you made. You have hastened the day of your doom; the end of your years has come. Therefore I will make you an object of scorn to the nations, an object to be mocked by all lands.
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8 I will fill its mountains with its dead; on your hills and in your valleys and in all your ravines, those killed by the sword will fall.
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20 Can people make their own gods? No, what they make are not gods at all.”
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31 And you, my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are my people, and I am your God, declares the Sovereign LORD.’”
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6 Therefore, as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, I will subject you to bloodshed, and bloodshed will pursue you. Since you did not hate bloodshed, bloodshed will pursue you.
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10 Please stop wounding me! You have almost beaten me to death!
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8 While they were striking them down, I was left alone, and I threw myself face down and cried out,“Ah, Sovereign LORD! Will you destroy the entire remnant of Israel when you pour out your fury on Jerusalem?”
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16 “‘As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, surely in the city of the king who crowned him, whose oath he despised and whose covenant he broke– in the middle of Babylon he will die!
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17 “‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Are you the one of whom I spoke in former days by my servants the prophets of Israel, who prophesied in those days that I would bring you against them?