By your wisdom and by your understanding you have gotten yourself riches,
and have gotten gold and silver into your treasuries.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Ezekiel 28:4 in context
Ezekiel 28:1–7
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The LORD’s word came again to me, saying,
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“Son of man, tell the prince of Tyre, ‘The Lord GOD says:
“Because your heart is lifted up,
and you have said, ‘I am a god,
I sit in the seat of God,
in the middle of the seas;’
yet you are man,
and no god,
though you set your heart as the heart of a god—
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behold, you are wiser than Daniel.
There is no secret that is hidden from you.
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By your wisdom and by your understanding you have gotten yourself riches,
and have gotten gold and silver into your treasuries.
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By your great wisdom
and by your trading you have increased your riches,
and your heart is lifted up because of your riches—”
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“‘therefore the Lord GOD says:
“Because you have set your heart as the heart of God,
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therefore, behold, I will bring strangers on you,
the terrible of the nations.
They will draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom.
They will defile your brightness.
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