Ezekiel 28:12 meaning and explanation

“Son of man, take up a lament for the king of Tyre and tell him that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You were the seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.

Ezekiel 28:12, Berean Standard Bible

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God addresses Ezekiel as “son of man,” his usual title for the prophet, and commands him to take up a lament, a funeral song, for the king of Tyre. That ruler had credited his own wisdom for his wealth and treated himself as a god (verses 2 to 5).

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