First Option - First Reading: Ezekiel 28:1-10

¹ The word of the LORD came to me:
² ”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 seas,’ yet you are but a man, and no god, though you consider yourself as wise as a god –
<sup>3</sup> you are indeed wiser than Daniel; no secret is hidden from you;
<sup>4</sup> by your wisdom and your understanding you have gotten wealth for yourself, and have gathered gold and silver into your treasuries;
<sup>5</sup> by your great wisdom in trade you have increased your wealth, and your heart has become proud in your wealth –
<sup>6</sup> therefore thus says the Lord GOD: “Because you consider yourself as wise as a god,
<sup>7</sup> therefore, behold, I will bring strangers upon you, the most terrible of the nations; and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom and defile your splendor.
<sup>8</sup> They shall thrust you down into the Pit, and you shall die the death of the slain in the heart of the seas.
<sup>9</sup> Will you still say, `I am a god,’ in the presence of those who slay you, though you are but a man, and no god, in the hands of those who wound you?
¹⁰ You shall die the death of the uncircumcised by the hand of foreigners; for I have spoken, says the Lord GOD.”