Will you yet say before him who kills you, ‘I am God’?
But you are man, and not God,
in the hand of him who wounds you.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Ezekiel 28:9 in context
Ezekiel 28:6–12
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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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They will bring you down to the pit.
You will die the death of those who are slain
in the heart of the seas.
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Will you yet say before him who kills you, ‘I am God’?
But you are man, and not God,
in the hand of him who wounds you.
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You will die the death of the uncircumcised
by the hand of strangers;
for I have spoken it,” says the Lord GOD.’”
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Moreover the LORD’s word came to me, saying,
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“Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre, and tell him, ‘The Lord GOD says:
“You were the seal of full measure,
full of wisdom,
and perfect in beauty.
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