5 Yes, your wisdom has made you very rich,and your riches have made you very proud.
6 “Therefore, this is what the Sovereign lord says:Because you think you are as wise as a god,
7 I will now bring against you a foreign army,the terror of the nations.They will draw their swords against your marvelous wisdomand defile your splendor!
8 They will bring you down to the pit,and you will die in the heart of the sea,pierced with many wounds.
9 Will you then boast, ‘I am a god!’to those who kill you?To them you will be no godbut merely a man!
10 You will die like an outcastat the hands of foreigners.I, the Sovereign lord, have spoken!”
11 Then this further message came to me from the lord: