Catholic Public Domain Version
"So then, will you speak, in the presence of those who are destroying you, before the hand of those who are killing you, saying, ‘I am God,’ though you are a man, and not God? "
— Ezekiel 28:9, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but thou shalt be a man, and no God, in the hand of him that slayeth thee.”
“Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but thou art man, and not God, in the hand of him that woundeth thee. ”
“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.”
“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?”
“Wilt thou yet say before them that slay thee: I am God; whereas thou art a man, and not God, in the hand of them that slay thee?”
“Will you say, in the face of those who are taking your life, I am God? but you are man and not God in the hands of those who are wounding you.”
“Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but thou shalt be a man, and no God, in the hand of him that slayeth thee.”
Therefore, thus says the Lord God: Because your heart has been exalted as if it were the heart of God,
for this reason, behold, I will lead over you foreigners, the most robust among the Gentiles. And they will bare their swords over the beauty of your wisdom, and they will defile your beauty.
They will destroy you and pull you down. And you will die the death of those slain in the heart of the sea.
So then, will you speak, in the presence of those who are destroying you, before the hand of those who are killing you, saying, ‘I am God,’ though you are a man, and not God?
You will die the death of the uncircumcised at the hand of foreigners. For I have spoken, says the Lord God.”
And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: “Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre,
and you shall say to him: Thus says the Lord God: You were the seal of similitudes, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.