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By the abundance of your wisdom in your trading
    you have increased your wealth
    and your heart was proud in[a] your wealth.”’”

Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh:

“Because of your regarding your mind[b]
    like the mind[c] of a god,
therefore look! I am bringing strangers over you,
    the most ruthless of the peoples,
and they will draw their swords against the beauty[d] of your wisdom,
    and they will defile your splendor.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 28:5 Or “by/through”
  2. Ezekiel 28:6 Literally “heart”
  3. Ezekiel 28:6 Literally “heart”
  4. Ezekiel 28:7 Or “splendor”