Ezekiel 32:30 · World English Bible
There are the princes of the north, all of them, and all the Sidonians, who have gone down with the slain. They are put to shame in the terror which they caused by their might. They lie uncircumcised with those who are slain by the sword, and bear their shame with those who go down to the pit.
Princes who once ruled through fear now lie among the corpses they made. Their terror bought them nothing that lasts.
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Princes who once ruled through fear now lie among the corpses they made. Their terror bought them nothing that lasts. The power they trusted has curdled into shame, and the strength they wielded over others cannot lift them out of the grave. Might built on cruelty writes its own ending, and the ending is always the pit.
Every tyrant believes his force sets him above the common fate. It does not. The same death that takes the frightened takes the men who did the frightening, and it strips their glory as it goes. Fear commands the living, then abandons the dead. What outlasts a person is never the terror he inflicted, only what he built that deserved to stand.
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If the fear you cause in people disappeared tomorrow, what would still be standing that you built?
Whoever leans on armies and force is already losing. What is won by violence has to be held by violence, and that holding wears a man out until he breaks early.
Alexander the Great and his mule driver were both brought to the same dust. Rank was a costume, and death undressed them equally.
He who harms others to secure his own position is building the house of his own ruin. The cruelty returns along the road it was sent out on.
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