Ezekiel 28:5
New International Version
By your great skill in trading you have increased your wealth, and because of your wealth your heart has grown proud.

New Living Translation
Yes, your wisdom has made you very rich, and your riches have made you very proud.

English Standard Version
by your great wisdom in your trade you have increased your wealth, and your heart has become proud in your wealth—

Berean Standard Bible
By your great skill in trading you have increased your wealth, but your heart has grown proud because of it.

King James Bible
By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:

New King James Version
By your great wisdom in trade you have increased your riches, And your heart is lifted up because of your riches),”

New American Standard Bible
“By your great wisdom, by your trade You have increased your riches, And your heart is haughty because of your riches—

NASB 1995
“By your great wisdom, by your trade You have increased your riches And your heart is lifted up because of your riches—

NASB 1977
“By your great wisdom, by your trade You have increased your riches, And your heart is lifted up because of your riches—

Legacy Standard Bible
By your great wisdom, by your trade You have increased your wealth, And your heart is lofty because of your wealth—

Amplified Bible
By your great wisdom and by your trade You have increased your riches and power, And your heart is proud and arrogant because of your wealth;

Christian Standard Bible
By your great skill in trading you have increased your wealth, but your heart has become proud because of your wealth.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
By your great skill in trading you have increased your wealth, but your heart has become proud because of your wealth.”

American Standard Version
by thy great wisdom and by thy traffic hast thou increased thy riches, and thy heart is lifted up because of thy riches; �

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
In the multitude of your wisdom and of your commerce you multiplied your wealth, and your heart is lifted up by your wealth

Brenton Septuagint Translation
By thy abundant knowledge and thy traffic thou hast multiplied thy power; thy heart has been lifted up by thy power.

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

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.

English Revised Version
by thy great wisdom and by thy traffic hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Because of your great skill in trading, you've made yourself very wealthy. You have become arrogant because of your wealth.

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

International Standard Version
By your great wisdom, by your skills in trading you have amassed wealth for yourself and your heart has become arrogant because of your wealth."

JPS Tanakh 1917
In thy great wisdom by thy traffic Hast thou increased thy riches, And thy heart is lifted up because of thy riches--

Literal Standard Version
By the abundance of your wisdom, | Through your merchandise, | You have multiplied your wealth, | And your heart is high through your wealth.

Majority Standard Bible
By your great skill in trading you have increased your wealth, but your heart has grown proud because of it.

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

NET Bible
By your great skill in trade you have increased your wealth, and your heart is proud because 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.

New Heart English Bible
by your great wisdom and by your traffic you have increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches"--

Webster's Bible Translation
By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thy heart is lifted up because of thy riches:

World English Bible
By your great wisdom and by your trading you have increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches—”

Young's Literal Translation
By the abundance of thy wisdom, Through thy merchandise, Thou hast multiplied thy wealth, And high is thy heart through thy wealth.

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Context
Prophecy Against the King of Tyre
4By your wisdom and understanding you have gained your wealth and amassed gold and silver for your treasuries. 5By your great skill in trading you have increased your wealth, but your heart has grown proud because of it. 6Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Because you regard your heart as the heart of a god,…

Cross References
Job 31:24
If I have put my trust in gold or called pure gold my security,

Job 31:25
if I have rejoiced in my great wealth because my hand had gained so much,

Psalm 52:7
"Look at the man who did not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his wealth and strengthened himself by destruction."

Jeremiah 49:4
Why do you boast of your valleys--your valleys so fruitful, O faithless daughter? You trust in your riches and say, 'Who can come against me?'

Ezekiel 27:12
Tarshish was your merchant because of your great wealth of goods; they exchanged silver, iron, tin, and lead for your wares.

Ezekiel 27:33
When your wares went out to sea, you satisfied many nations. You enriched the kings of the earth with your abundant wealth and merchandise.

Ezekiel 28:2
"Son of man, tell the ruler of Tyre that this is what the Lord GOD says: Your heart is proud, and you have said, 'I am a god; I sit in the seat of gods in the heart of the sea.' Yet you are a man and not a god, though you have regarded your heart as that of a god.


Treasury of Scripture

By your great wisdom and by your traffic have you increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches:

thy great wisdom.

Proverbs 26:12
Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.

Isaiah 5:21
Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!

Romans 12:16
Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits.

and by

Ezekiel 27:12
Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs.

Psalm 62:10
Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.

Isaiah 23:3,8
And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, is her revenue; and she is a mart of nations…

and thine

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:

Ezekiel 16:49
Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

Deuteronomy 6:11,12
And houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which thou plantedst not; when thou shalt have eaten and be full; …

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Ezekiel 28
1. God's judgment upon the prince of Tyrus for his sacrilegious pride
11. A lamentation of his great glory corrupted by Sidon
20. The judgment of Zion
24. The restoration of Israel
















Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
By your great
בְּרֹ֧ב (bə·rōḇ)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 7230: Multitude, abundance, greatness

skill
חָכְמָתְךָ֛ (ḥā·ḵə·mā·ṯə·ḵā)
Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 2451: Wisdom

in trading
בִּרְכֻלָּתְךָ֖ (bir·ḵul·lā·ṯə·ḵā)
Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 7404: Traffic, merchandise

you have increased
הִרְבִּ֣יתָ (hir·bî·ṯā)
Verb - Hifil - Perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 7235: To be or become much, many or great

your wealth,
חֵילֶ֑ךָ (ḥê·le·ḵā)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 2428: A force, an army, wealth, virtue, valor, strength

but your heart
לְבָבְךָ֖ (lə·ḇā·ḇə·ḵā)
Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 3824: Inner man, mind, will, heart

has grown proud
וַיִּגְבַּ֥הּ (way·yiḡ·bah)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1361: To soar, be lofty, to be haughty

because of [it].’
בְּחֵילֶֽךָ׃ (bə·ḥê·le·ḵā)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 2428: A force, an army, wealth, virtue, valor, strength


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