Ezekiel 28:16
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By the vastness of your trade, you were filled with violence, and you sinned. So I drove you in disgrace from the mountain of God, and I banished you, O guardian cherub, from among the fiery stones.
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Because you have plundered many nations, the remnant of the people will plunder you— because of your bloodshed against man and your violence against the land, the city, and all their dwellers.
For your violence against Lebanon will overwhelm you, and the destruction of animals will terrify you, because of your bloodshed against men and your violence against the land, the city, and all their dwellers.
To those selling doves He said, “Get these out of here! How dare you turn My Father’s house into a marketplace!”
So He drove out the man and stationed cherubim on the east side of the Garden of Eden, along with a whirling sword of flame to guard the way to the tree of life.
They covet fields and seize them; they take away houses. They deprive a man of his home, a fellow man of his inheritance.
“Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see this? Is it not enough for the house of Judah to commit the abominations they are practicing here, that they must also fill the land with violence and continually provoke Me to anger? Look, they are even putting the branch to their nose!
The LORD of Hosts planned it, to defile all its glorious beauty, to disgrace all the renowned of the earth.
Proclaim to the citadels of Ashdod and to the citadels of Egypt: “Assemble on the mountains of Samaria; see the great unrest in the city and the acts of oppression in her midst.”
I will remove you from office, and you will be ousted from your position.
For the wealthy of the city are full of violence, and its residents speak lies; their tongues are deceitful in their mouths.