Ezekiel 26:2–28:26

²Son of man, ^abecause that Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem, ^bAha, she is broken that was the gates of the people: she is turned unto me: I shall be replenished, now she is laid waste: ³Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, O Tyrus, and will cause ^cmany nations to come up against thee, ^das the sea causeth his waves to come up. ⁴And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and ^emake her like ^fthe top of a rock. ⁵It shall be a place for ^gthe spreading of nets ^hin the midst of the sea: ⁱfor I have spoken it, saith the Lord God: and it shall become ^ka spoil to the nations. ⁶And ^lher daughters which are in the field shall be slain by the sword; ^mand they shall know that I am the Lord.

⁷For thus saith the Lord God; ^mmBehold, I will bring upon Tyrus Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, ⁿa king of kings, ^ofrom the north, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and companies, and much people. ⁸He shall slay with the sword ^lthy daughters in the field: and ^phe shall make a fort against thee, and ^||pqcast a mount against thee, and ^rlift up the buckler against thee. ⁹And he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers. ¹⁰By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover thee: thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of ^sthe wheels, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into thy gates, ^†as men enter into a city wherein is made a breach. ¹¹With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all thy streets: he shall slay thy people by the sword, and thy strong garrisons shall go down to the ground. ¹²And they shall ^ttmake a spoil of thy riches, and ^ttmake a prey of thy ^umerchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy ^†thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and ^uuthy dust in the midst of the water. ¹³And ^vI will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of ^wthy harps shall be no more heard. ¹⁴And ^eI will make thee like the top of a rock: ^gthou shalt be a place to spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no more: for ⁱI the Lord have spoken it, saith the Lord God.

¹⁵Thus saith the Lord God to Tyrus; Shall not the isles ^xshake at the sound of thy fall, when ^ythe wounded cry, when the slaughter is made in the midst of thee? ¹⁶Then all ^zthe princes of the sea ^ashall come down from their thrones, and ^alay away their robes, and put off their ^bbroidered garments: they shall clothe themselves with ^†trembling; ^abbthey shall sit upon the ground, and ^cshall tremble ^dat every moment, and ^ebe astonished at thee. ¹⁷And ^fthey shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say to thee, How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited ^†of seafaring men, the renowned city, ^gwhich wast strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, ^hwhich cause their terror to be on all that haunt it! ¹⁸Now ⁱshall the isles tremble ^jin the day of thy fall; yea, the isles that are in the sea shall be troubled at thy departure. ¹⁹For thus saith the Lord God; When I shall make thee a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; ^jjwhen I shall bring up the deep upon thee, and great waters shall cover thee; ²⁰When ^kI shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, ^kkwith the people of old time, and shall set thee ^kin the low parts of the earth, in places ^ldesolate of old, ^kwith them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I shall set glory ^min the land of the living; ²¹ⁿI will make thee ^†a terror, ⁿand thou shalt be no more: ^othough thou be sought for, yet shalt thou ^opnever be found again, saith the Lord God.

27The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying, ²Now, thou son of man, ^atake up a lamentation for Tyrus; ³And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at ^bthe entry of the sea, which art ^ca merchant of the people for many isles, Thus saith the Lord God; O Tyrus, thou hast said, ^dI am ^†of perfect beauty. ⁴Thy borders are in the ^†midst of the seas, thy builders ^dhave perfected thy beauty. ⁵They have ^†made all thy ship boards of ^efir trees of ^fSenir: they have taken ^gcedars from Lebanon to make ^hmasts for thee. ⁶Of ⁱthe oaks of Bashan have they made thine ^joars; ^||†the company of ^lthe Ashurites have made thy benches of ivory, brought out of ^mthe isles of Chittim. ⁷ⁿFine linen with ^obroidered work ^pfrom Egypt was ^qthat which thou spreadest forth to be ^rthy sail; ^||sblue and ^stpurple from the isles of ^uElishah was that which covered thee. ⁸The inhabitants of Zidon and ^vArvad were ^wthy mariners: thy wise men, O Tyrus, that were in thee, were thy ^xpilots. ⁹The ancients of ^yGebal and the wise men thereof were in thee ^zthy ^||†calkers: all the ships of the sea with their ^amariners were in thee ^zto ^boccupy thy merchandise. ¹⁰They of ^cPersia and of ^deLud and of ^cdfPhut were in thine army, ^gthy men of war: ^ggthey hanged the shield and helmet in thee; they set forth ^hthy comeliness. ¹¹The men of ^vArvad with thine army were upon thy walls round about, and the Gammadims were in thy towers: ^ggthey hanged ⁱtheir shields upon thy walls round about; ^jthey have made thy beauty perfect. ^12kTarshish was ^lthy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, ^mthey traded in thy fairs. ^13nopJavan, ^noqTubal, and ^nqrMeshech, they were thy merchants: they traded ^sthe persons of men and vessels of brass in thy ^||market. ¹⁴They of the house of ^tTogarmah ^mtraded in thy fairs with horses and horsemen and mules. ¹⁵The men of ^uDedan were thy merchants; many isles were the merchandise of thine hand: they brought thee for ^va present horns of ivory and ebony. ¹⁶Syria was ^lthy merchant by reason of the multitude of ^†the wares of thy making: ^mthey occupied in thy fairs with ^wemeralds, ^xpurple, and ^xbroidered work, and ^yfine linen, and ^zcoral, and ^||aagate. ¹⁷Judah, and the land of Israel, they were thy merchants: they traded in thy market ^bwheat of ^cMinnith, and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and ^||dbalm. ^18eDamascus was thy merchant in the multitude of the wares of thy making, for the multitude of all riches; in the wine of Helbon, and ^fwhite wool. ¹⁹Dan also and Javan ^||going to and fro ^goccupied in thy fairs: bright iron, ^hcassia, and ⁱcalamus, were in thy market. ^20kDedan was thy merchant in ^†precious clothes for chariots. ^21lArabia, and all the princes of ^mKedar, ^†they occupied with thee in lambs, and rams, and goats: in these were they thy merchants. ²²The merchants of ^noSheba and ⁿRaamah, they were ^pthy merchants: ^pthey occupied in thy fairs with ⁱchief of all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold. ^23qHaran, and Canneh, and ^qEden, the merchants of ^oSheba, ^rAsshur, and Chilmad, were thy merchants. ²⁴These were thy merchants in ^||all sorts of things, in ^sblue ^†clothes, and ^sbroidered work, and in chests of rich apparel, bound with cords, and made of cedar, among thy merchandise. ^25tThe ships of ^uTarshish did sing of thee in thy market: and thou wast replenished, and made very glorious in the ^vmidst of the seas. ^26wThy rowers have brought thee into great waters: ^xthe east wind hath broken thee in the ^†midst of the seas. ^27yThy riches, and ^zthy fairs, ^athy merchandise, ^bthy mariners, and ^cthy pilots, ^bthy calkers, and ^bthe occupiers of thy merchandise, and all ^dthy men of war, that are in thee, ^||and in ^eall thy company which is in the midst of thee, shall fall into the ^†midst of the seas ^fin the day of thy ruin. ^28gThe ^||suburbs ^hshall shake at the sound of the cry of ^cthy pilots. ²⁹ⁱAnd all that handle ^kthe oar, ^bthe mariners, and all ^cthe pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships, they shall stand upon the land; ³⁰ⁱAnd shall cause their voice to be heard against thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall ^locast up dust upon their heads, they shall ^mwallow themselves in the ashes: ³¹And they shall ⁿmake themselves utterly bald for thee, and ^ogird them with sackcloth, and they shall ^lweep for thee ^oowith bitterness of heart and bitter wailing. ³²And in their wailing they shall ^ptake up a lamentation for thee, and ^pplament over thee, saying, ⁱWhat city is like Tyrus, like the destroyed ^qin the midst of the sea? ^33rWhen ^sthy wares went forth out of the seas, thou filledst many people; ^tthou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of thy riches and of ^athy merchandise. ³⁴In the time ^uwhen thou shalt be broken by the seas ^vin the depths of the waters ^athy merchandise and ^eall thy company in the midst of thee shall fall. ^35wAll the inhabitants of the isles ^xyshall be astonished at thee, and ^ytheir kings shall be sore afraid, they shall be troubled in their countenance. ^36zThe merchants among the people shall ^ahiss at thee; ^bthou shalt be ^†a terror, and ^†never shalt be any more.

28The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying, ²Son of man, say unto ^athe prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord God; ^bBecause ^cthine heart is lifted up, and ^dthou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, ^ein the ^†midst of the seas; yet ^fthou art a man, and not God, though ^gthou set thine heart as the heart of God: ³Behold, ^hthou art wiser than ⁱDaniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee: ^4hjWith thy wisdom and with thine understanding ^kthou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures: ^5†By thy great wisdom and by ^lthy traffick ^khast thou increased thy riches, and ^cmthine heart is lifted up because of thy riches: ⁶Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because ^gthou hast set thine heart as the heart of God; ⁷Behold, therefore I will bring ⁿstrangers upon thee, ^opthe terrible of the nations: and ^othey shall draw their swords against ^qthe beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile ^qthy brightness. ⁸They shall bring thee down ^rto the pit, and thou shalt die the deaths of them that are slain ^ein the midst of the seas. ^9dWilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but ^fthou shalt be a man, and…