Bible verse
They will bring you down to the Pit, and you will die a violent death in the heart of the seas.
Ezekiel 28:8 · BSB
The verses around it, from Ezekiel 28.
4 By your wisdom and understanding you have gained your wealth and amassed gold and silver for your treasuries.
5 By your great skill in trading you have increased your wealth, but your heart has grown proud because of it.
6 Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Because you regard your heart as the heart of a god,
7 behold, I will bring foreigners against you, the most ruthless of nations. They will draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom and will defile your 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 still say, ‘I am a god,’ in the presence of those who slay you? You will be only a man, not a god, in the hands of those who wound you.
10 You will die the death of the uncircumcised at the hands of foreigners. For I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD.”
11 Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
12 “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.
KJV
They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of [them that are] slain in the midst of the seas.
ASV
They shall bring thee down to the pit; and thou shalt die the death of them that are slain, in the heart of the seas.
ERV
They shall bring thee down to the pit; and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain, in the heart of the seas.
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