Ezekiel 26

A Prophecy Against Tyre

26In the eleventh month of the twelfth^a year, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:^{d 2}“Son of man, because Tyre^e has said of Jerusalem, ‘Aha!^f The gate to the nations is broken, and its doors have swung open to me; now that she lies in ruins I will prosper,’ ³therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am against you, Tyre, and I will bring many nations against you, like the sea^g casting up its waves. ⁴They will destroy^h the walls of Tyreⁱ and pull down her towers; I will scrape away her rubble and make her a bare rock. ⁵Out in the sea^j she will become a place to spread fishnets,^k for I have spoken, declares the Sovereign Lord. She will become plunder^l for the nations,^{m 6}and her settlements on the mainland will be ravaged by the sword. Then they will know that I am the Lord.

⁷“For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: From the north I am going to bring against Tyre Nebuchadnezzar^bn king of Babylon, king of kings,^o with horses and chariots,^p with horsemen and a great army. ⁸He will ravage your settlements on the mainland with the sword; he will set up siege works^q against you, build a ramp^r up to your walls and raise his shields against you. ⁹He will direct the blows of his battering rams against your walls and demolish your towers with his weapons.^{s 10}His horses will be so many that they will cover you with dust. Your walls will tremble at the noise of the warhorses, wagons and chariots^t when he enters your gates as men enter a city whose walls have been broken through. ¹¹The hooves^u of his horses will trample all your streets; he will kill your people with the sword, and your strong pillars^v will fall to the ground.^{w 12}They will plunder your wealth and loot your merchandise; they will break down your walls and demolish your fine houses and throw your stones, timber and rubble into the sea.^{x 13}I will put an end^y to your noisy songs,^z and the music of your harps^a will be heard no more.^{b 14}I will make you a bare rock, and you will become a place to spread fishnets. You will never be rebuilt,^c for I the Lord have spoken, declares the Sovereign Lord.

¹⁵“This is what the Sovereign Lord says to Tyre: Will not the coastlands^d tremble^e at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan^f and the slaughter takes place in you? ¹⁶Then all the princes of the coast will step down from their thrones and lay aside their robes and take off their embroidered^g garments. Clothed^h with terror, they will sit on the ground,ⁱ trembling^j every moment, appalled^k at you. ¹⁷Then they will take up a lament^l concerning you and say to you:

“ ‘How you are destroyed, city of renown,

peopled by men of the sea!

You were a power on the seas,

you and your citizens;

you put your terror

on all who lived there.^m

¹⁸Now the coastlands trembleⁿ

on the day of your fall;

the islands in the sea

are terrified at your collapse.’^o

¹⁹“This is what the Sovereign Lord says: When I make you a desolate city, like cities no longer inhabited, and when I bring the ocean depths^p over you and its vast waters cover you,^{q 20}then I will bring you down with those who go down to the pit,^r to the people of long ago. I will make you dwell in the earth below, as in ancient ruins, with those who go down to the pit, and you will not return or take your place^c in the land of the living.^{s 21}I will bring you to a horrible end and you will be no more.^t You will be sought, but you will never again be found, declares the Sovereign Lord.”^u