Ezekiel 26

Prophecy Against Tyre

1 aIn the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me: 2 bSon of man, because cTyre said concerning Jerusalem, dAha, the gate of the peoples is broken; it has swung open to me. I shall be replenished, now that she is laid waste,’ 3therefore thus says the Lord God: eBehold, I am against you, O Tyre, and will bring up fmany nations against you, gas the sea brings up its waves. 4They shall destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers, and I will scrape her soil from her and hmake her a bare rock. 5She ishall be in the midst of the sea a place for the spreading of nets, jfor I have spoken, declares the Lord God. And she shall become plunder for the nations, 6and her daughters on the mainland shall be killed by the sword. kThen they will know that I am the Lord.

7For thus says the Lord God: lBehold, I will bring against Tyre mfrom the north Nebuchadnezzar
Hebrew Nebuchadrezzar; so throughout Ezekiel
king of Babylon, oking of kings, with horses and chariots, and with horsemen and a host of many soldiers.
8He will kill with the sword pyour daughters on the mainland. qHe will set up a siege wall against you and throw up a mound against you, and raise ra roof of shields against you. 9 sHe will direct the shock of his battering rams against your walls, and with his axes he will break down your towers. 10His horses will be so many that their dust will cover you. Your walls will shake at the noise of the horsemen and wagons and chariots, when he enters your gates as men enter a city that has been breached. 11With the hoofs of his horses he will trample all your streets. He will kill your people with the sword, and your mighty pillars will fall to the ground. 12They will plunder tyour riches and loot uyour merchandise. They will break down your walls and destroy your pleasant houses. Your stones and timber and vsoil they will cast into the midst of the waters. 13 wAnd I will stop the music of your songs, and xthe sound of your lyres shall be heard no more. 14 yI will make you a bare rock. zYou shall be a place for the spreading of nets. You shall never be rebuilt, aafor I am the Lord; I have spoken, declares the Lord God.

15Thus says the Lord God to Tyre: Will not abthe coastlands shake at the sound of your fall, acwhen the wounded groan, when slaughter is made in your midst? 16Then all adthe princes of the sea will step down from their thrones and aeremove their robes and strip off their embroidered garments. They will clothe themselves with trembling; afthey will sit on the ground and agtremble every moment and ahbe appalled at you. 17And they will airaise a lamentation over you and say to you,

“‘How you have perished,
you who were inhabited from the seas,
O city renowned,
ajwho was mighty on the sea;
she and her inhabitants akimposed their terror
on all her inhabitants!
18Now the coastlands tremble
on the day of your fall,
and the coastlands that are on the sea
are dismayed at your passing.’
19For thus says the Lord God: When I make you a city laid waste, like the cities that are not inhabited, alwhen I bring up the deep over you, and the great waters cover you, 20then amI will make you go down with those who go down to the pit, to the people of old, and I will make you to dwell in the world below, among ruins from of old, anwith those who go down to the pit, so that you will not be inhabited; but I will set beauty aoin the land of the living. 21I will bring you apto a dreadful end, and you shall be no more. aqThough you be sought for, you will never be found again, declares the Lord God.”

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