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.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:
But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast lifted up thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;
For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-19)As after the prediction of the ruin of Tyre (Ezek. 26:1-21) followed a pathetic lamentation for it (Ezek. 27:1-36), so after the ruin of the king of Tyre is foretold it is bewailed. I. This is commonly understood of the prince who then reigned over Tyre, spoken to, Ezek. 28:2. His name was Ethbaal , or Ithobalus , as Diodorus Siculus calls him that was king of Tyre when Nebuchadnezzar destroyed it…
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