the prince.

Because

Ezekiel 28:5, 17
By your great skill in trading you have increased your wealth, but your heart has grown proud because of it.' . . .

Ezekiel 31:10
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: 'Since it became great in height and set its top among the clouds, and it grew proud on account of its height,

Deuteronomy 8:14
then your heart will become proud, and you will forget the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

2 Chronicles 26:16
But when Uzziah grew powerful, his arrogance led to his own destruction. He was unfaithful to the LORD his God, for he entered the temple of the LORD to burn incense on the altar of incense.

Proverbs 16:18
Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

Proverbs 18:12
Before his downfall a man's heart is proud, but humility comes before honor.

Isaiah 2:12
For the Day of the LORD of Hosts will come against all the proud and lofty, against all that is exalted--it will be humbled--

Daniel 5:22
But you his son, O Belshazzar, have not humbled your heart, even though you knew all this.

Daniel 5:23
Instead, you have exalted yourself against the Lord of heaven. The vessels from His house were brought to you, and as you drank wine from them with your nobles, wives, and concubines, you praised gods of silver and gold, bronze and iron, wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or understand. But you have failed to glorify the God who holds in His hand your very breath and all your ways.

Habakkuk 2:4
Look at the proud one; His soul is not upright--But the righteous will live by his faith--

1 Timothy 3:6
He must not be a recent convert, or he may become conceited and fall under the same condemnation as the devil.

1 Peter 5:5
Young men, in the same way, submit yourselves to your elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, "God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble."

I am

Ezekiel 28:6, 9
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: 'Because you regard your heart as the heart of a god, . . .

Genesis 3:5
"For God knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."

Acts 12:22, 23
And they began to shout, "This is the voice of a god, not a man!" . . .

Revelation 17:3
And the angel carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness, where I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns.

I sit

Ezekiel 28:12-14
"Son of man, take up a lament for the king of Tyre and tell him that this is what the Lord GOD says: 'You were the seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty. . . .

Isaiah 14:13, 14
You said in your heart: "I will ascend to the heavens; I will raise my throne above the stars of God. I will sit on the mount of assembly, in the far reaches of the north. . . .

Daniel 4:30, 31
the king exclaimed, "Is this not Babylon the Great, which I myself have built by the might of my power as a royal residence and for the glory of my majesty?" . . .

2 Thessalonians 2:4
He will oppose and exalt himself above every so-called god or object of worship. So he will seat himself in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.

in the midst [heb] in the heart

Ezekiel 27:3, 4, 26, 27
Tell Tyre, who dwells at the gateway to the sea, merchant of the peoples on many coasts, that this is what the Lord GOD says: 'You have said, O Tyre, "I am perfect in beauty." . . .

yet

Ezekiel 28:9
Will you still say, "I am a god, " in the presence of those who slay you? You will be only a man, not a god, in the hands of those who wound you.

Psalm 9:20
Lay terror upon them, O LORD; let the nations know they are but men. Selah

Psalm 72:6, 7
May he be like rain that falls on freshly cut grass, like spring showers that water the earth. . . .

Isaiah 31:3
But the Egyptians are men, not God; their horses are flesh, not spirit. When the LORD stretches out His hand, the helper will stumble and the one he helps will fall; both will perish together.

thou set

Ezekiel 28:6
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: 'Because you regard your heart as the heart of a god,

2 Thessalonians 2:4
He will oppose and exalt himself above every so-called god or object of worship. So he will seat himself in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.