First Reading
Ezekiel 28:1-10
Read this as the first big movement of the day. Notice what God is doing, who is speaking, and what part of the story or teaching should stay with you.
1And the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
2Son of Man, say to the leader of Tyre: Thus says the Lord God: Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said: I am God, and T sit in the chair of God in the heart of the sea: whereas you art a man, and not God: and have set your heart as if it were the heart of God.
3Look you art wiser than Daniel: no secret is hid from you.
4In your wisdom and your understanding you have made yourself strong: and have gotten gold and silver into your treasures.
5By the greatness of your wisdom, and by your traffic you have increased your strength: and your heart is lifted up with your strength.
6Therefore, thus says the Lord God: Because your heart is lifted up as the heart of God:
7Therefore look, I will bring upon you strangers the strongest of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom, and they shall defile your beauty.
8They shall kill you, and bring you down: and you shall die the death of them that are killed in the heart of the sea.
9Will you yet say before them that kill you: I am God; whereas you art a man, and not God, in the hand of them that kill you?
10You shall die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have said it, says the Lord God.