Ezekiel 28:17
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Your 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.
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By your great skill in trading you have increased your wealth, but your heart has grown proud because of it.
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Since it became great in height and set its top among the clouds, and it grew proud on account of its height,
But He gives us more grace. This is why it says: “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
“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.
For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”
When pride comes, disgrace follows, but with humility comes wisdom.
I will cause many peoples to be appalled over you, and their kings will shudder in horror because of you when I brandish My sword before them. On the day of your downfall each of them will tremble every moment for his life.’
The LORD sustains the humble, but casts the wicked to the ground.
behold, I will bring foreigners against you, the most ruthless of nations. They will draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom and will defile your splendor.