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An empty human-scale seat faces Tyre’s island harbor, with sandals left at its foot.
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Ezekiel 28:1-2

Pride at sea

The Pride of Tyre and the Promise to Israel · Ezekiel 28

Story guide: The empty seat represents the unnamed prince’s claim; no ruler or deity is identified.

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1And the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

2Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD: Because your heart is proud, and you say, “I am a god; I sit in the seat of gods in the heart of the seas,” yet you are a man and not a god, though you set your heart like the heart of gods.”

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