By your wisdom and understanding
    you have gained wealth for yourself
and amassed gold and silver
    in your treasuries.(A)
By your great skill in trading(B)
    you have increased your wealth,(C)
and because of your wealth
    your heart has grown proud.(D)

“‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says:

“‘Because you think you are wise,
    as wise as a god,
I am going to bring foreigners against you,
    the most ruthless of nations;(E)
they will draw their swords against your beauty and wisdom(F)
    and pierce your shining splendor.(G)
They will bring you down to the pit,(H)
    and you will die a violent death(I)
    in the heart of the seas.(J)
Will you then say, “I am a god,”
    in the presence of those who kill you?
You will be but a mortal, not a god,(K)
    in the hands of those who slay you.(L)
10 You will die the death of the uncircumcised(M)
    at the hands of foreigners.

I have spoken, declares the Sovereign Lord.’”

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