Ezekiel 28:2
Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord God; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God:
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Study Note
The oracle against the prince of Tyre — 'your heart is proud, and you have said, I am a god, I sit in the seat of the gods, in the heart of the seas' — is the most sustained prophetic analysis of the sin of hubris in the Hebrew Bible. The prince's self-deification is presented as the logical end of successful wisdom applied exclusively to commercial enrichment (verses 3-5) without acknowledgment of the source or limits of that wisdom. The passage has generated centuries of interpretation identifying the prince of Tyre with Satan (as in the parallel oracle of 28:12-19), reading the fall from the garden of Eden as a second layer of meaning. The verse articulates the prophetic tradition's diagnosis of empire: economic success produces the idolatry of self-sufficiency that inevitably precedes catastrophic divine judgment.
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Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyre, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because thy heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art man, and not God, though thou didst set thy heart as the heart of God;—
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Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre, This is what the Lord has said: Because your heart has been lifted up, and you have said, I am a god, I am seated on the seat of God in the heart of the seas; but you are man and not God, though you have made your heart as the heart of God:
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