5 Through your shrewd trading you multiplied your riches. But then you became proud of your riches.
6 So now the Lord God proclaims: Because you claim to have the mind of a god,
7 I’ll bring foreigners, the most ruthless nations, against you. They will let loose their swords against your fine wisdom, and they will degrade your splendor.
8 They will hurl you to destruction, and you will die, murdered, on the high seas.
9 When you face your murderers, will you still say, "I’m God"? In your killers’ hands, you are mortal, not divine.
10 You will die as the uncircumcised do, at the hands of foreigners. I have spoken. This is what the Lord God has said.
11 The Lord’s word came to me: