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A Lament for the King of Tyre

Ezekiel 28:15

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Did God create the devil? No verse says so directly, but Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant churches teach that God created him a good angel who rebelled by his own choice.

In 11 translations

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.
LSV
You [were] perfect in your ways, || From [the] day of your being created, || Until perversity was found in you.
YLT
Perfect [art] thou in thy ways, From the day of thy being produced, Till perversity hath been found in thee.
DBY
Thou wast perfect in thy ways, from the day that thou wast created, till unrighteousness was found in thee.
DRC
Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day of thy creation, until iniquity was found in thee.
GNV
Thou wast perfite in thy wayes from the day that thou wast created, till iniquitie was found in thee.
JPS
Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till unrighteousness was found in thee.
LXXE
Thou wast faultless in thy days, from the day that thou wast created, until iniquity was found in thee.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
תָּמִ֤ים אַתָּה֙ בִּדְרָכֶ֔יךָ מִיּ֖וֹם הִבָּֽרְאָ֑ךְ עַד־נִמְצָ֥א עַוְלָ֖תָה בָּֽךְ׃
LXX-Br
Ἐγενήθης σὺ ἄμωμος ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις σου, ἀφʼ ἧς ἡμέρας σὺ ἐκτίσθης ἕως εὑρέθη τὰ ἀδικήματα ἐν σοί.

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In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

  • 2 Peter 2:4For 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;
  • Ezekiel 28:17–18Your 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. By the multitude of your iniquities and the dishonesty of your…
  • Genesis 1:26–27Then 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.” So…
  • Romans 7:9Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died.
  • Ezekiel 27:3–4Tell 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.’ Your borders are in the heart of the seas;…
  • 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.
  • Ezekiel 28:3–6Behold, you are wiser than Daniel; no secret is hidden from you! By your wisdom and understanding you have gained your wealth and amassed gold and silver for your treasuries. By your great skill in trading you have…
  • Lamentations 5:16The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!
  • Ecclesiastes 7:29Only this have I found: I have discovered that God made men upright, but they have sought out many schemes.”
  • Isaiah 14:12How you have fallen from heaven, O day star, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, O destroyer of nations.
  • Proverbs 14:34Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.
  • Genesis 6:5–6Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the time. And the LORD regretted that He had made man on the earth,…
  • Genesis 1:31And God looked upon all that He had made, and indeed, it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.

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