5. By your great skill in trading you have increased your wealth, and because of your wealth your heart has grown proud.
6. “ ‘Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: “ ‘Because you think you are wise, as wise as a god,
7. I am going to bring foreigners against you, the most ruthless of nations; they will draw their swords against your beauty and wisdom and pierce your shining splendor.
8. They will bring you down to the pit, and you will die a violent death in the heart of the seas.
9. Will you then say, “I am a god,” in the presence of those who kill you? You will be but a mortal, not a god, in the hands of those who slay you.
10. You will die the death of the uncircumcised at the hands of foreigners. I have spoken, declares the Sovereign Lord.’ ”
11. The word of the Lord came to me: