Ezekiel 26

Chapter 26

Judgment on Tyre

¹Now 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 concerning Jerusalem, ‘Aha, the ^bgateway of the peoples is broken; it has ^1copened to me. I shall be filled, now that she is laid waste,’

³therefore thus says the Lord ¹God, ‘Behold, I am against you, O Tyre, and I will bring up ^amany nations against you, as the ^bsea brings up its waves.

⁴‘They will ^adestroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers; and I will scrape her debris from her and make her a bare rock.

⁵‘She will be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea, for I have spoken,’ declares the Lord God, ‘and she will become ^aspoil for the nations.

⁶‘Also her ^adaughters who are ¹on the mainland will be slain by the sword, and they will know that I am the Lord.’ ”

⁷For thus says the Lord God, “Behold, I will bring upon Tyre from the north Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, ^aking of kings, with horses, ^bchariots, cavalry and ¹a great army.

⁸“He will slay your daughters ¹on the mainland with the sword; and he will make ^asiege walls against you, cast up a ^bramp against you and raise up a large shield against you.

⁹“The blow of his battering rams he will direct against your walls, and with his ¹axes he will break down your towers.

¹⁰“Because of the multitude of his ^ahorses, the dust raised by them will cover you; your walls will ^bshake at the noise of cavalry and ¹wagons and chariots when he ^centers your gates as men enter a city that is breached.

¹¹“With the hoofs of his ^ahorses he will trample all your streets. He will slay your people with the sword; and your strong pillars will ^bcome down to the ground.

¹²“Also they will make a spoil of your riches and a prey of your ^amerchandise, ^bbreak down your walls and destroy your ^cpleasant houses, and ¹throw your stones and your timbers and your debris ^dinto the water.

¹³“So I will ¹silence the sound of your ^asongs, and the sound of your ^bharps will be heard no more.

¹⁴“I will make you a bare rock; you will be a place for the spreading of nets. You will be ^abuilt no more, for I the ^bLord have spoken,” declares the Lord God.

¹⁵Thus says the Lord God to Tyre, “Shall not the ^acoastlands ^bshake at the sound of your fall when the wounded groan, when the slaughter occurs in your midst?

¹⁶“Then all the princes of the sea will ^ago down from their thrones, remove their robes and strip off their embroidered garments. They will ^bclothe themselves with ¹trembling; they will sit on the ground, ^ctremble every moment and be appalled at you.

¹⁷“They will take up a ^alamentation over you and say to you,

‘^bHow you have perished, O inhabited one,

From the seas, O renowned city,

Which was ^cmighty on the sea,

She and her inhabitants,

Who ¹imposed ²her terror

On all her inhabitants!

¹⁸‘Now the ^acoastlands will tremble

On the day of your fall;

Yes, the coastlands which are by the sea

Will be terrified at your ^bpassing.’ ”

¹⁹For thus says the Lord God, “When I make you a desolate city, like the cities which are not inhabited, when I ^abring up the deep over you and the great waters cover you,

²⁰then I will bring you down with those who ^ago down to the pit, to the people of old, and I will make you dwell in the ^blower parts of the earth, like the ancient waste places, with those who go down to the pit, so that you will not ¹be inhabited; but I will set ^cglory in the land of the living.

²¹“I will ¹bring ^aterrors on you and you will be no more; though you will be sought, ^byou will never be found again,” declares the Lord God.