Therefore this is what the Lord God says: ‘Because you have made your heart Like the heart of God,
Parallel translations
- WEB therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because you have set your heart as the heart of God,
- KJV Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God;
- BSB Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Because you regard your heart as the heart of a god,
- NKJV ‘Therefore thus says the Lord God: “Because you have set your heart as the heart of a god,
- NLT “Therefore, this is what the Sovereign Lord says: Because you think you are as wise as a god,
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Quick answer
Because the prince set his heart as though it were the heart of God, judgment is pronounced. It restates the charge of self-deifying pride as the ground of his doom.
Overview
God repeats the indictment, his heart imagined itself divine, to make the basis of judgment unmistakable. The repetition stresses that the issue is not merely wealth but the idolatry of self. This sets the stage for the sentence that follows, affirming that the Lord alone is God and will not share His glory with any creature.
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Cross-references · 7
- Ezek 28:2Son of man, tell the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the middle of the seas; yet you are man, and not God, though you set your heart as the heart of God —
- Exod 9:17as you still exalt yourself against my people, that you won’t let them go.
- 1 Cor 10:22Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?
- Job 40:9–12Or do you have an arm like God? Can you thunder with a voice like him?
- Jas 1:11For the sun arises with the scorching wind, and withers the grass, and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in his pursuits.
- Job 9:4God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against him, and prospered?
- 2 Th 2:4he who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or that is worshiped; so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself up as God.
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