The word of the Lord came to me: 'Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord God: Because your heart is proud, and you have said, 'I am a god; I sit in the seat of the gods, in the heart of the sea,' yet you are a man, and not a god, though you make your heart like the heart of a god, shifting from lamentation over the city to condemnation of the prince (likely the king) whose pride and theological presumption brought judgment. The prince's claim to divinity—'I am a god'—represents the ultimate theological transgression, claiming the status and authority that belong exclusively to God. This pride, expressed through architectural (sitting in the seat of the gods) and metaphysical assertions, constitutes the fundamental occasion for judgment.

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