Ezekiel 28:17

WEB

¹⁷Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty. You have corrupted your wisdom by reason of your splendor. I have cast you to the ground. I have laid you before kings, that they may see you.

KJV

¹⁷Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.

BSB

¹⁷Your heart grew proud of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor; so I cast you to the earth; I made you a spectacle before kings.

FBV

¹⁷You became proud because of your beauty, you ruined your wisdom because you thought you were so wonderful. So I threw you down to the ground and I made sure kings saw what happened to you.

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Extra References

Ezekiel 28:5

⁵By your great wisdom and by your trading you have increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches—”

Proverbs 16:18

¹⁸Pride goes before destruction, and an arrogant spirit before a fall.

Ezekiel 31:10

¹⁰“Therefore thus said the Lord GOD: ‘Because he is exalted in stature, and he has set his top among the thick branches, and his heart is lifted up in his height,

James 4:6

⁶But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

Luke 14:11

¹¹For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”

²“Son of man, tell the prince of Tyre, ‘The Lord GOD says: “Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, ‘I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the middle of the seas;’ yet you are man, and no god, though you set your heart as the heart of a god—

Psalms 147:6

⁶The LORD upholds the humble. He brings the wicked down to the ground.

Proverbs 11:2

²When pride comes, then comes shame, but with humility comes wisdom.

Ezekiel 32:10

¹⁰Yes, I will make many peoples amazed at you, and their kings will be horribly afraid for you, when I brandish my sword before them. They will tremble at every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of your fall.”

1 Corinthians 1:19-21

¹⁹For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise. I will bring the discernment of the discerning to nothing.”

²⁰Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Hasn’t God made foolish the wisdom of this world? ²¹For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn’t know God, it was God’s good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe.