Yesaya 47:8

47:8 So now, listen to this,

O one who lives so lavishly, ¹ 

who lives securely,

who says to herself, ² 

‘I am unique! No one can compare to me! ³ 

I will never have to live as a widow;

I will never lose my children.’ ⁴ 

Yehezkiel 28:2

28:2 “Son of man, say to the prince ⁵  of Tyre, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says:

“‘Your heart is proud ⁶  and you said, “I am a god; ⁷ 

I sit in the seat of gods, in the heart of the seas” –

yet you are a man and not a god,

though you think you are godlike. ⁸ 

Yehezkiel 28:9

28:9 Will you still say, “I am a god,” before the one who kills you –

though you are a man and not a god –

when you are in the power of those who wound you?

Yehezkiel 29:3

29:3 Tell them, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says:

“‘Look, I am against ⁹  you, Pharaoh king of Egypt,

the great monster ¹⁰  lying in the midst of its waterways,

who has said, “My Nile is my own, I made it for myself.” ¹¹ 

¹ tn Or perhaps, “voluptuous one” (NAB); NAB “you sensual one”; NLT “You are a pleasure-crazy kingdom.”

² tn Heb “the one who says in her heart.”

³ tn Heb “I [am], and besides me there is no other.” See Zeph 2:15.

⁴ tn Heb “I will not live [as] a widow, and I will not know loss of children.”

⁵ tn Or “ruler” (NIV, NCV).

⁶ tn Heb “lifted up.”

sn See Prov 16:5.

⁷ tn Or “I am divine.”

⁸ tn Heb “and you made your heart (mind) like the heart (mind) of gods.”

⁹ tn Or “I challenge you.” The phrase “I am against you” may be a formula for challenging someone to combat or a duel. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:201-2, and P. Humbert, “Die Herausforderungsformel ‘h!nn#n' ?l?K>,’” ZAW 45 (1933): 101-8.

¹⁰ tn Heb “jackals,” but many medieval Hebrew mss read correctly “the serpent.” The Hebrew term appears to refer to a serpent in Exod 7:9-10, 12; Deut 32:33; and Ps 91:13. It also refers to large creatures that inhabit the sea (Gen 1:21; Ps 148:7). In several passages it is associated with the sea or with the multiheaded sea monster Leviathan (Job 7:12; Ps 74:13; Isa 27:1; 51:9). Because of the Egyptian setting of this prophecy and the reference to the creature’s scales (v. 4), many understand a crocodile to be the referent here (e.g., NCV “a great crocodile”; TEV “you monster crocodile”; CEV “a giant crocodile”).

¹¹ sn In Egyptian theology Pharaoh owned and controlled the Nile. See J. D. Currid, Ancient Egypt and the Old Testament, 240-44.