Ezekiel 28:15

Sin

¹³ You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every kind of precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and emerald. Your mountings and settings were crafted in gold, prepared on the day of your creation.

¹⁴ You were anointed as a guardian cherub, for I had ordained you. You were on the holy mountain of God; you walked among the fiery stones.

From the day you were created you were blameless in your ways— until wickedness was found in you.

¹⁶ By the vastness of your trade, you were filled with violence, and you sinned. So I drove you in disgrace from the mountain of God, and I banished you, O guardian cherub, from among the fiery stones.

¹⁷ Your heart grew proud of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor; so I cast you to the earth; I made you a spectacle before kings.

This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: From the day you were created you were blameless in your ways— until wickedness was found in you.
KJV: Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.
WEB: You were perfect in your ways from the day that you were created, until unrighteousness was found in you.
ASV: Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till unrighteousness was found in thee.
DARBY: Thou wast perfect in thy ways, from the day that thou wast created, till unrighteousness was found in thee.
BLB: Perfect you [were] in your ways from the day you were created, until iniquity was found in you.

ÅB: Ustraffelig var du i din ferd fra den dag du ble skapt, til det ble funnet urettferdighet hos deg.
OTB: Du var ulastelig i dine veier
fra den dagen du ble skapt
inntil ondskap ble funnet i deg.
B1930: Ustraffelig var du i din ferd fra den dag du blev skapt, til det blev funnet urettferdighet hos dig.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

2 Peter 2:4
For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them deep into hell, placing them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment;
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Ezekiel 28:17–18
Your heart grew proud of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom because of your splendor; so I cast you to the earth; I made you a spectacle before kings.
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Genesis 1:26–27
Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it.”
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Romans 7:9
Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.
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Ezekiel 28:12
“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.
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Ezekiel 28:3–6
Behold, you are wiser than Daniel; no secret is hidden from you!
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Ezekiel 27:3–4
Tell Tyre, who dwells at the gateway to the sea, merchant of the peoples on many coasts, that this is what the Lord GOD says: You have said, O Tyre, ‘I am perfect in beauty.’
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Lamentations 5:16
The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!
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