Ezekiel 26

¹ In the eleventh year, in the first day of the month, Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

² “Son of man, because Tyre has said against Jerusalem, ‘Aha! She is broken who was the gate of the peoples! She has turned to me. I shall be replenished, now she is laid waste;’

³ therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘Behold, I am against you, Tyre, and will cause many nations to come up against you, as the sea causes its waves to come up.

⁴ They shall destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down her towers. I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her a bare rock.

⁵ She shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the middle of the sea; for I have spoken it,’ says the Lord Yahweh. ‘She shall become plunder for the nations.

⁶ Her daughters who are in the field shall be slain with the sword. Then they shall know that I am Yahweh.’

⁷ “For thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘Behold, I will bring on Tyre Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, from the north, with horses, with chariots, with horsemen, and a company, and many people.

⁸ He shall kill with the sword your daughters in the field. He shall make forts against you, cast up a mound against you, and lift up the buckler against you.

⁹ He shall set his battering engines against your walls, and with his axes he shall break down your towers.

¹⁰ By reason of the abundance of his horses, their dust shall cover you. Your walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, of the wagons, and of the chariots, when he enters into your gates, as men enter into a city in which a breach is made.

¹¹ With the hoofs of his horses he shall tread down all your streets. He shall kill your people with the sword. The pillars of your strength shall go down to the ground.

¹² They shall make a spoil of your riches, and make a prey of your merchandise. They shall break down your walls, and destroy your pleasant houses. They shall lay your stones and your timber and your dust in the middle of the waters.

¹³ I will cause the noise of your songs to cease. The sound of your harps shall be no more heard.

¹⁴ I will make you a bare rock. You shall be a place for the spreading of nets. You shall never be built again; for I, Yahweh, have spoken it,’ says the Lord Yahweh.

¹⁵ “Thus says the Lord Yahweh to Tyre: ‘Shall not the islands shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, when the slaughter is made in the middle of you?

¹⁶ Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and lay away their robes, and put off their embroidered garments. They shall clothe themselves with trembling. They shall sit on the ground, and shall tremble every moment, and be astonished at you.

¹⁷ They shall take up a lamentation over you, and say to you, “How you are destroyed, who were inhabited by seafaring men, the renowned city, who was strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, who caused their terror to be on all who lived there!”

¹⁸ Now shall the islands tremble in the day of your fall. Yes, the islands that are in the sea shall be dismayed at your departure.’

¹⁹ “For thus says the Lord Yahweh: ‘When I make you a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I bring up the deep on you, and the great waters cover you;

²⁰ then I will bring you down with those who descend into the pit, to the people of old time, and will make you dwell in the lower parts of the earth, in the places that are desolate of old, with those who go down to the pit, that you be not inhabited; and I will set glory in the land of the living.

²¹ I will make you a terror, and you shall be no more. Though you are sought for, yet you shall never be found again,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”