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Ezekiel 28:14
You were anointed as a guardian cherub,
from A Lament for the King of Tyre, Ezekiel 28:11-19
What it says

He is portrayed as an anointed guardian cherub on God's holy mountain among fiery stones.

What it is doing

This verse places the king in a symbolically sacred station.

In context

11Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying, 12“Son of man, take up a lament for the king of Tyre and tell him that this is what the Lord GOD says: 13You were in Eden, 14You were anointed as a guardian cherub, 15From the day you were created 16By the vastness of your trade, 17Your heart grew proud of your beauty; 18By the multitude of your iniquities 19All the nations who know you