Ezekiel 28

Ezekiel 28:2

And, thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, &c. Though thou set thine heart as the heart of God.

Thou hast said, I am out of the reach of man’s power: my

Ezekiel 28:3

Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee.

And, as thou art greater than all others, so, in thine own conceit, thou art wiser than even Daniel himself: thou knowest all secret things, as well as he, in whom is the Spirit of the Most High God.

Ezekiel 28:8

And thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas.

And thou, that hast fondly imagined thyself a God, shalt die the death of thine ordinary vassals, notwithstanding thy strong forts and bulwarks of the sea.

Ezekiel 28:10

Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers.

Thou shalt die such a death, as an insolent and godless pagan is worthy of, by the hand of the Babylonians.

Ezekiel 28:12

Thou scalest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.

Thou givest out thyself as absolutely perfect, both in wisdom and beauty; so as no addition can be made to thee, in either of these.

Ezekiel 28:13

Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardins, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.

Thou hast abounded with all delicacies, as if thou hadst lived in Eden, the garden of God; and, where others make them coverings of homely and ordinary matter, thy canopies are beset with all the precious stones, that can be reckoned, and with the best of metals; neither hast thou needed to take any care for thy varieties of pleasures, for thy curious music was prepared for thee, even from thy very birth.

Ezekiel 28:14

Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.

Thou advancest thyself to be as that glorious cherub, which covereth the ark of God: so dost thou spread thy protection over thy land, and so have I appointed thee to do; yea, thou tookest upon thee, as if thou wert that God, which is worshipped in his holy temple, and as that Almighty one, who walketh above in the clouds, among the lightnings and thunder-stones.

Ezekiel 28:15

Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.

Thou didst arrogate a kind of perfection to thyself, in all thy VOL. III. M M ways; even from thy very nativity, till thy wickedness brake forth notoriously, to thy just conviction.

Ezekiel 28:16

By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.

By the confluence of much people, upon the occasions of thy merchandise, and the oppressive bargains that are used therein, thou art full of fraud and violence, and art thereupon grown exceedingly sinful; therefore will I cast thee out from those vainly pretended rights, which thou claimest in the temple of God: I will destroy thee, O thou false cherub, from the ark, whose covering thou wouldest resemble; and strike thee down from those clouds, where thou affectest to walk among the fiery meteors.

Ezekiel 28:18

Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities.

By the multitude of thine iniquities, thou hast defiled those places of majesty and devotion, which thou wouldst have to be thought sacred.

Ezekiel 28:23

And the wounded shall be judged in the midst of her by the sword upon her on every side.

The wounded and distressed inhabitants shall be called to reckoning in the midst of her streets, for their many and grievous sins, by the sword of her enemy, the Babylonian.

Ezekiel 28:24

And there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the house of Israel, nor any grieving thorn of all that are round about them, that despise them.

I will put an end to the sorrows of my Church: these heathens shall no more gall and grieve them; neither shall the nations round about insult upon their miseries, and trample upon them.

Ezekiel 28:25

When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the people among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the heathen, then they shall dwell in their land that I have given to my servant Jacob.

When I shall have gathered my chosen people out of all the nations of the earth amongst whom they are dispersed, and shall be sanctified in them before the rest of the world, then shall they enjoy a quiet rest, in my Church, which I have appropriated to them. So verse 26.