Ezekiel 28:5

JPS Old Testament

In thy great wisdom by thy traffic hast thou increased thy riches, and thy heart is lifted up because of thy riches--

Parallel Translations

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

Hebrew Names Version
by your great wisdom [and] by your traffic have you increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches;-

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

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

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—

New Century Version
Through your great skill in trading, you have made your riches grow. You are too proud because of your riches.

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;

World English Bible
by your great wisdom [and] by your traffic have you increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches;-

Geneva Bible (1587)
By thy great wisedome and by thine occupying hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted vp because of thy riches.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"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 tradeYou have increased your wealth,And your heart is lofty because of 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.'

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

Complete Jewish Bible
By your great skill in trading you have increased your wealth, and it is because of your wealth that you have become so proud.

Darby Translation
by thy great wisdom thou hast by thy traffic increased thy riches, and thy heart is lifted up because of thy riches.

Easy-to-Read Version
Through your great wisdom and trade, you have made your riches grow. And now you are proud because of those riches.

George Lamsa Translation
By your great wisdom and by your trade you have increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches;

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

Lexham English Bible
By the abundance of your wisdom in your trading you have increased your wealth and your heart was proud in your wealth."'"

Literal Translation
By your great wisdom, by your trade you have multiplied your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
With thy greate wi?dome and occupienge, hast thou increased thy power, and because of thy greate riches thy hert is proude.

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;—

Bible in Basic English
By your great wisdom and by your trade your power is increased, and your heart is lifted up because of your power:

King James Version (1611)
By thy great wisedome, and by thy traffique hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted vp because of thy riches.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
With thy great wysedome and occupying hast thou encreased thy power, and because of thy great riches thy heart is proude.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
By thy abundant knowledge and thy traffic thou hast multiplied thy power; thy heart has been lifted up by thy power.

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:

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
in the multitude of thi wisdom, and in thi marchaundie thou multipliedist to thee strengthe, and thin herte was reisid in thi strengthe;

Update Bible Version
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:

New English Translation
By your great skill in trade you have increased your wealth, and your heart is proud because of your wealth.

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

New Life Bible
By all your wisdom in trade you have added to your riches, and your heart has become proud because of them.

New Revised Standard
By your great wisdom in trade you have increased your wealth, and your heart has become proud in your wealth.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
By the greatness of thy wisdom and by thy traffic, hast thou multiplied thy riches, -And thy heart hath become lofty in thy riches:

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.

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

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.

Contextual Overview

¹ And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying: ² 'Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyre: Thus saith the Lord GOD: because thy heart is lifted up, and thou hast said: I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the heart of the seas; yet thou art man, and not God, though thou didst set thy heart as the heart of God-- ³ Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel! there is no secret that they can hide from thee! ⁴ By thy wisdom and by thy discernment thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures; ⁵ In thy great wisdom by thy traffic hast thou increased thy riches, and thy heart is lifted up because of thy riches-- ⁶ Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD: because thou hast set thy heart as the heart of God; ⁷ Therefore, behold, I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations; and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness. ⁸ They shall bring thee down to the pit; and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain, in the heart of the seas. ⁹ Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee: I am God? But thou art man, and not God, in the hand of them that defile thee. ¹⁰ Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers; for I have spoken, saith the Lord GOD.'

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

thy great wisdom: Heb. the greatness of thy wisdom, Proverbs 26:12, Isaiah 5:21, Romans 12:16

and by: Ezekiel 27:12-36, Psalms 62:10, Isaiah 23:3, Isaiah 23:8, Hosea 12:7, Hosea 12:8, Zechariah 9:3, James 4:13, James 4:14

and thine: Ezekiel 28:2, Ezekiel 16:49, Deuteronomy 6:11, Deuteronomy 6:12, Deuteronomy 8:13, Deuteronomy 8:14, 2 Chronicles 25:19, 2 Chronicles 32:23-25, Job 31:24, Job 31:25, Psalms 52:7, Psalms 62:10, Proverbs 11:28, Proverbs 30:9, Isaiah 10:8-14, Daniel 4:30, Daniel 4:37, Hosea 13:6, Luke 12:16-21, 1 Timothy 6:17

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 32:25 - his heart Esther 1:4 - When he Psalms 49:6 - boast Ezekiel 28:17 - heart Daniel 5:23 - lifted Daniel 11:12 - his heart Mark 10:24 - trust

Gill's Notes on the Bible

By thy great wisdom and by thy traffic,.... Or, "by thy great wisdom in thy traffic" i; through great skill in trade and commerce:

hast thou increased thy riches; to a very great degree, a prodigious bulk; so antichrist has done, especially through trafficking with the souls of men, which is one part of his merchandise, as it was of Tyre,

Revelation 18:13:

and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches; which are apt to puff up and make men highminded, and swell them with a vain opinion of themselves, and to make haughty, insolent, and scornful, in their behaviour to others; thus elated with worldly grandeur and riches, the whore of Rome is represented as proud, vain, and haughty, Revelation 18:7.

i ברכלתך "in negotione tua", V. L. Pagninus, Starckius; "in mercatura tua", Junius & Tremellius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The prophecy against the prince of Tyre. Throughout the east the majesty and glory of a people were collected in the person of their monarch, who in some nations was worshipped as a god. The prince is here the embodiment of the community. Their glory is his glory, their pride his pride. The doom of Tyre could not be complete without denunciation of the prince of Tyre. Idolatrous nations and idolatrous kings were, in the eyes of the prophet, antagonists to the true God. In them was embodied the principle of evil opposing itself to the divine government of the world. Hence, some of the fathers saw upon the throne, not simply a hostile monarch, but “the Prince of this world, spiritual wickedness (or wicked spirits) in high places.” Whenever evil in any way domineers over good, there is a “prince of Tyrus,” against whom God utters His voice. The “mystery of iniquity is ever working, and in that working we recognize the power of Satan whom God condemns and will destroy.

Ezekiel 28:2

Thou hast said, I am a god - Compare Ezekiel 29:3; Daniel 4:30; Acts 12:22; 2 Thessalonians 2:4.

I sit in the seat of God - Words denoting the speaker’s pride; but the situation of the island-city, full of beauty, in the midst of the blue water of the Mediterranean, gives force to the expression. Compare the words describing the lot of Tyre as having been in Eden Ezekiel 28:13.

Thou art a man - Rather, thou art man.

Ezekiel 28:3

Thou art wiser than Daniel - The passage is one of strong irony. Compare Ezekiel 14:14; Daniel 6:3.

Ezekiel 28:9

But thou shalt be a man - Rather, yet art thou man.

Ezekiel 28:10

The uncircumcised - The pagan idolaters as opposed to the covenant-people.

The prophecy against the prince of Tyre. Throughout the east the majesty and glory of a people were collected in the person of their monarch, who in some nations was worshipped as a god. The prince is here the embodiment of the community. Their glory is his glory, their pride his pride. The doom of Tyre could not be complete without denunciation of the prince of Tyre. Idolatrous nations and idolatrous kings were, in the eyes of the prophet, antagonists to the true God. In them was embodied the principle of evil opposing itself to the divine government of the world. Hence, some of the fathers saw upon the throne, not simply a hostile monarch, but “the Prince of this world, spiritual wickedness (or wicked spirits) in high places.” Whenever evil in any way domineers over good, there is a “prince of Tyrus,” against whom God utters His voice. The “mystery of iniquity is ever working, and in that working we recognize the power of Satan whom God condemns and will destroy.

Ezekiel 28:2

Thou hast said, I am a god - Compare Ezekiel 29:3; Daniel 4:30; Acts 12:22; 2 Thessalonians 2:4.

I sit in the seat of God - Words denoting the speaker’s pride; but the situation of the island-city, full of beauty, in the midst of the blue water of the Mediterranean, gives force to the expression. Compare the words describing the lot of Tyre as having been in Eden Ezekiel 28:13.

Thou art a man - Rather, thou art man.

Ezekiel 28:3

Thou art wiser than Daniel - The passage is one of strong irony. Compare Ezekiel 14:14; Daniel 6:3.

Ezekiel 28:9

But thou shalt be a man - Rather, yet art thou man.

Ezekiel 28:10

The uncircumcised - The pagan idolaters as opposed to the covenant-people.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ezekiel 28:5. By thy great wisdom — He attributed every thing to himself; he did not acknowledge a Divine providence. As he got all by himself, so he believed he could keep all by himself, and had no need of any foreign help.