6Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God;
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God:
As yet exaltest thou thyself against my people, that thou wilt not let them go?
Hast thou an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with a voice like him? …
He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered?
Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-10)We had done with Tyrus in the foregoing chapter, but now the prince of Tyrus is to be singled out from the rest. Here is something to be said to him by himself, a message to him from God , which the prophet must send him, whether he will hear or whether he will forbear. I. He must tell him of his pride. His people are proud (Ezek. 27:3) and so is he; and they shall both be made to know that God re…
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