Ezekiel 28:8

⁶ Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God;

⁷ Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness.

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.

⁹ Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but thou shalt be a man, and no God, in the hand of him that slayeth thee.

¹⁰ Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.

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: They will bring you down to the Pit, and you will die a violent death in the heart of the seas.
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.
WEB: They will bring you down to the pit. You will die the death of those who are slain in the heart 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.
DARBY: They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of those that are slain in the heart of the seas.
BLB: They bring you down into the Pit, and you will die the death of the slain in the midst of the seas!

ÅB: I graven skal de støte deg ned, og du skal dø som de ihjelslåtte dør, midt ute i havet.
OTB: De vil føre deg ned til dypet,
og du vil dø voldsomt
i havets hjerte.
B1930: I graven skal de støte dig ned, og du skal dø som de ihjelslåtte dør, midt ute i havet.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Ezekiel 27:34
In the time when thou shalt be broken by the seas in the depths of the waters thy merchandise and all thy company in the midst of thee shall fall.
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Ezekiel 27:26–27
Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters: the east wind hath broken thee in the midst of the seas.
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Job 33:28
He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.
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Ezekiel 32:18–30
Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her, and the daughters of the famous nations, unto the nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into the pit.
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Job 33:18
He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.
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Psalms 28:1
Unto thee will I cry, O LORD my rock; be not silent to me: lest, if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
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Psalms 55:15
Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.
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Psalms 88:4–5
I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:
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