16. Your commerce was full of lawlessness, and you sinned.Therefore I banished you from the mountain of God;the cherub drove you outfrom among the fiery stones.
17. Your heart had grown haughtybecause of your beauty;You corrupted your wisdombecause of your splendor.I cast you to the ground,I made you a spectaclein the sight of kings.
18. Because of the enormity of your guilt,and the perversity of your trade,you defiled your sanctuary.I brought fire out of you;it devoured you;I made you ashes on the groundin the eyes of all who see you.
19. All the nations who knew youare appalled on account of you;You have become a horror,never to be again.
20. The word of the Lord came to me: