Ezekiel 28:5
Good News Translation
You made clever business deals and kept on making profits. How proud you are of your wealth!

New Revised Standard Version
By your great wisdom in trade you have increased your wealth, and your heart has become proud in your wealth.

Contemporary English Version
You're a clever businessman and are extremely wealthy, but your wealth has led to arrogance!

New American Bible
Through your great wisdom in trading you heaped up riches for yourself— your heart is haughty because of your riches.

Douay-Rheims Bible
By the greatness of thy wisdom, and by thy traffic thou hast increased thy strength: and thy heart is lifted up with thy strength.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

By the greatness of thy wisdom, and by thy traffic thou hast increased thy strength: and thy heart is lifted up with thy strength.

thy great wisdom.

Proverbs 26:12 Hast thou seen a man wise in his own conceit? there shall be more hope of a fool than of him.

Isaiah 5:21 Woe to you that are wise in your own eyes, and prudent in your own conceits.

Romans 12:16 Being of one mind one towards another. Not minding high things, but consenting to the humble. Be not wise in your own conceits.

and by

Ezekiel 27:12 The Carthaginians thy merchants supplied thy fairs with a multitude of all kinds of riches, with silver, iron, tin, and lead,

Psalm 62:10 Trust not in iniquity, and covet not robberies: if riches abound, set not your heart upon them.

Isaiah 23:3,8 The seed of the Nile in many waters, the harvest of the river is her revenue: and she is become the mart of the nations. . . .

Hosea 12:7,8 He is like Chanaan, there is a deceitful balance in his hand, he hath loved oppression. . . .

Zechariah 9:3 And Tyre hath built herself a strong hold, and heaped together silver as earth, and gold as the mire of the streets.

James 4:13,14 But who art thou that judgest thy neighbour? Behold, now you that say: To-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city, and there we will spend a year and will traffic and make our gain. . . .

and thine

Ezekiel 28:2 Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre: Thus saith the Lord God: Because thy heart is lifted up, and thou hast said: I am God, and I sit in the chair of God in the heart of the sea: whereas thou art a man, and not God: and hast set thy heart as if it were the heart of God.

Ezekiel 16:49 Behold this was the iniquity of Sodom thy sister, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance, and the idleness of her, and of her daughters: and they did not put forth their hand to the needy, and the poor.

Deuteronomy 6:11,12 Houses full of riches, which thou didst not set up, cisterns which thou didst not dig, vineyards and oliveyards, which thou didst not plant, . . .

Deuteronomy 8:13,14 And shalt have herds of oxen and flocks of sheep, and plenty of gold and of silver, and of all things, . . .

2 Chronicles 25:19 Thou hast said: I have overthrown Edom, and therefore thy heart is lifted up with pride: stay at home, why dost thou provoke evil against thee, that both thou shouldst fall and Juda with thee.

2 Chronicles 32:23-25 Many also brought victims, and sacrifices to the Lord to Jerusalem, and presents to Ezechias king of Juda: and he was magnified thenceforth in the sight of all nations. . . .

Job 31:24,25 If I have thought gold my strength, and have said to fine gold: My confidence: . . .

Psalm 52:7 Behold the man that made not God his helper: But trusted in the abundance of his riches: and prevailed in his vanity.

Psalm 62:10 Trust not in iniquity, and covet not robberies: if riches abound, set not your heart upon them.

Proverbs 11:28 He that troubleth his own house, shall inherit the winds: and the fool shall serve the wise.

Proverbs 30:9 Lest perhaps being filled, I should be tempted to deny, and say: Who is the Lord? or being compelled by poverty, I should steal, and forswear the name of my God.

Isaiah 10:8-14 For he shall say: . . .

Daniel 4:30,37 The same hour the word was fulfilled upon Nabuchodonosor, and he was driven away from among men, and did eat grass, like an ox, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven: till his hairs grew like the feathers of eagles, and his nails like birds' claws. . . .

Hosea 13:6 According to their pastures they were filled, and were made full: and they lifted up their heart, and have forgotten me.

Luke 12:16-21 And he spoke a similitude to them, saying: The land of a certain rich man brought forth plenty of fruits. . . .

1 Timothy 6:17 Charge the rich of this world not to be highminded nor to trust in the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God (who giveth us abundantly all things to enjoy)

Context
Prophecy Against the King of Tyre
4In thy wisdom and thy understanding thou hast made thyself strong: and hast gotten gold an silver into thy treasures. 5By the greatness of thy wisdom, and by thy traffic thou hast increased thy strength: and thy heart is lifted up with thy strength.6Therefore, thus saith the Lord God: Because thy heart is lifted up as the heart of God:…
Cross References
Job 31:24
If I have thought gold my strength, and have said to fine gold: My confidence:

Job 31:25
If I have rejoiced over my great riches, and because my hand had gotten much.

Psalm 52:7
Behold the man that made not God his helper: But trusted in the abundance of his riches: and prevailed in his vanity.

Jeremiah 49:4
Why gloriest thou in the valleys? thy valley hath flowed away, O delicate daughter, that hast trusted in thy treasures, and hast said: Who shall come to me?

Ezekiel 27:12
The Carthaginians thy merchants supplied thy fairs with a multitude of all kinds of riches, with silver, iron, tin, and lead,

Ezekiel 27:33
Which by thy merchandise that went from thee by sea didst fill many people: which by the multitude of thy riches, and of thy people didst enrich the kings of the earth.

Ezekiel 28:2
Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre: Thus saith the Lord God: Because thy heart is lifted up, and thou hast said: I am God, and I sit in the chair of God in the heart of the sea: whereas thou art a man, and not God: and hast set thy heart as if it were the heart of God.

Hosea 12:7
He is like Chanaan, there is a deceitful balance in his hand, he hath loved oppression.

Hosea 12:8
And Ephraim said: But yet I am become rich, I have found me an idol: all my labours shall not find me the iniquity that I have committed.

Hosea 13:6
According to their pastures they were filled, and were made full: and they lifted up their heart, and have forgotten me.

Zechariah 9:3
And Tyre hath built herself a strong hold, and heaped together silver as earth, and gold as the mire of the streets.

Ezekiel 28:4
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