Ezekiel 26
Judgment on Tyre
1 Now in the eleventh year, on the first of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 2“Son of man, because aTyre has said in regard to Jerusalem, ‘Aha! The bgateway of the peoples is broken; it has ▼▼Lit turned
,
dopened to me. I shall be filled, now that she is laid waste,’ 3therefore this is what the Lord ▼▼Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord, and so throughout the ch
God says: ‘Behold, I am against you, Tyre, and I will bring up fmany nations against you, as the gsea brings up its waves. 4They will hdestroy the walls of Tyre and tear down her towers; and I will sweep her debris away from her and make her a bare rock. 5She will become a dry place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea, for I have spoken,’ declares the Lord God; ‘and she will become iplunder for the nations. 6Also her jdaughters who are ▼▼Lit in the field
on the mainland will be killed by the sword, and they will know that I am the Lord.’” 7 For the Lord God says this: “Behold, I am going to bring upon Tyre from the north Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, lking of kings, with horses, mchariots, cavalry, and ▼▼Lit an assembly, even many people
a great army. 8He will kill your daughters ▼▼Lit in the field
on the mainland with the sword; and he will make psiege walls against you, pile up an qassault ramp against you, and raise up a large shield against you. 9And he will direct the blow of his battering rams against your walls, and he will tear down your towers with his ▼▼Or crowbars
axes. 10Because of the multitude of his shorses, the dust raised by them will cover you; your walls will tshake from the noise of cavalry, ▼▼Lit wheel
wagons, and chariots when he venters your gates as warriors enter a city that is breached. 11With the hoofs of his whorses he will trample all your streets. He will kill your people with the sword, and your strong ▼▼Or memorial stones (in Tyre’s temple)
pillars will ygo down to the ground. 12Also they will take your riches as spoils and plunder your zmerchandise, aatear down your walls and destroy your abdelightful houses, and ▼▼Lit put
throw your stones, your timbers, and your debris adinto the water. 13So I will put an end to the sound of your aesongs, and the sound of your afharps will no longer be heard. 14I will turn you into a bare rock; you will become a dry place for the spreading of nets. You will not be agrebuilt, for I the ahLord have spoken,” declares the Lord God. 15 The Lord God says this to Tyre: “Will the aicoastlands not ajshake from the sound of your downfall when the wounded groan, when the slaughter takes place in your midst? 16Then all the princes of the sea will akdescend from their thrones, remove their robes, and strip off their colorfully woven garments. They will alclothe themselves with ▼▼Lit tremblings
trembling; they will sit on the ground, antremble again and again, and be appalled at you. 17And they will take up a aosong of mourning over you and say to you,‘ apHow you have perished, you inhabited one,From the seas, you famous city,
Which was aqmighty on the sea,
She and her inhabitants,
Who imposed ▼
▼Lit their
her terrorOn all her inhabitants!
18 ‘Now the ascoastlands will tremble
On the day of your downfall;
Yes, the coastlands which are by the sea
Will be horrified at your atpassing.’”
19 For this is what the Lord God says: “When I make you a desolate city, like the cities which are not inhabited, when I aubring up the deep over you and the great waters cover you, 20then I will bring you down with those who avgo down to the pit, to the people of old, and I will make you remain in the awlower parts of the earth, like the ancient ruins, with those who go down to the pit, so that you will not ▼
▼Another reading is return
be inhabited; but I will put ayglory in the land of the living. 21I will ▼▼Lit give
cause you basudden terrors and you will no longer exist; though you will be sought, bbyou will never be found again,” declares the Lord God.
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