Ezekiel 28 · Verse 15

Ezekiel 28:15

Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.
Ezekiel 28:15, King James Version

Ezekiel 28:15 in other translations

BSBFrom the day you were created you were blameless in your ways— until wickedness was found in you.
WEBYou were perfect in your ways from the day that you were created, until unrighteousness was found in you.
ASVThou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till unrighteousness was found in thee.
YLTPerfect art thou in thy ways, From the day of thy being produced, Till perversity hath been found in thee.
DARBYThou wast perfect in thy ways, from the day that thou wast created, till unrighteousness was found in thee.
BBEThere has been no evil in your ways from the day when you were made, till sin was seen in you.
WebsterThou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.

What does Ezekiel 28:15 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
15. perfect--prosperous [Grotius], and having no defect. So Hiram was a sample of the Tyrian monarch in his early days of wisdom and prosperity (1Ki 5:7, &c.). till iniquity ... in thee--Like the primeval man thou hast fallen by abusing God's gifts, and so hast provoked God's wrath.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways - The irony seems still to be kept up. Thou hast been like the angels, like Moses, like the cherubs, like Adam, like God, till thy iniquity was found out.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Ezekiel 28:1-19

The sentence against the prince or king of Tyre. (Ezek 28:1-19) The fall of Zidon. (Ezek 28:20-23) The restoration of Israel. (Ezek 28:24-26) Verses 1-19 Ethbaal, or Ithobal, was the prince or king of Tyre; and being lifted up with excessive pride, he claimed Divine honours. Pride is peculiarly the sin of our fallen nature. Nor can any wisdom, except that which the Lord gives, lead to happiness in this world or in…

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Ezekiel 28:15 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

תָּמִ֤יםta.Mim[were] blamelessH8549
אַתָּה֙'a.TahyouH859
בִּדְרָכֶ֔יךָbid.ra.Khei.khain ways yourH1870
מִיּ֖וֹםmi.Yomfrom [the] dayH3117
הִבָּֽרְאָ֑ךְhi.ba.re.'Akhare created youH1254
עַד\־'ad-untilH5704
נִמְצָ֥אnim.Tza'it was foundH4672
עַוְלָ֖תָה'av.La.tahunrighteousness <towards>H5766
בָּֽךְ\׃Bakhin you

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Ezekiel 28:15

  • 2 Peter 2:4

    For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;

  • Ezekiel 28:17-18

    Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee. Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.

  • Genesis 1:26-27

    And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

  • Romans 7:9

    For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

  • Ezekiel 28:12

    Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord God; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.

  • Ezekiel 28:3-6

    Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee: With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures: By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches: Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because thou hast set thine heart as the heart of God;

  • Ezekiel 27:3-4

    And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea, which art a merchant of the people for many isles, Thus saith the Lord God; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of perfect beauty. Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty.

  • Lamentations 5:16

    The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!

  • Ecclesiastes 7:29

    Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.

  • Isaiah 14:12

    How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!

  • Proverbs 14:34

    Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.

  • Genesis 1:31

    And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
perfect.
3-6,12; 27:3,4
till iniquity.
17,18; Ge 1:26,27,31; 6:5,6; Pr 14:34; Ec 7:29; Isa 14:12; La 5:16
Ro 7:9; 2Pe 2:4

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Context

  • Ezekiel 28:14

    Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.

  • Ezekiel 28:15

    Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.

  • Ezekiel 28:16

    By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.

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Ezekiel 28:15 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Perfecto eras en todos tus caminos desde el día que fuiste criado, hasta que se halló en ti maldad.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Tu fus parfait dans tes voies depuis le jour où tu fus créé, jusqu’à ce que l’iniquité s’est trouvée en toi.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Vollkommen warst du in deinen Wegen von dem Tage an, da du geschaffen worden, bis Unrecht an dir gefunden wurde.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
perfectus in viis tuis a die conditionis tuæ, donec inventa est iniquitas in te.