Ezekiel 26
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Ezekiel 26
Proclamation against Tyre
1In the twelfth year,#26.1 Gk ms: Heb eleventh year in the eleventh#26.1 Cn: Heb lacks eleventh month, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me: 2#Isa 23; Jer 25.22; Ezek 25.3; 36.2Mortal, because Tyre said concerning Jerusalem,
“Aha, broken is the gateway of the peoples;
it has swung open to me;
I shall be replenished,
now that it is wasted,”
3 #
Isa 5.30; Jer 50.42; Mic 4.11 therefore, thus says the Lord GOD:
See, I am against you, O Tyre!
I will hurl many nations against you,
as the sea hurls its waves.
4 #
Am 1.10
They shall destroy the walls of Tyre
and break down its towers.
I will scrape its soil from it
and make it a bare rock.
5 #
Ezek 27.32; 29.19 It shall become, in the midst of the sea,
a place for spreading nets.
I have spoken, says the Lord GOD.
It shall become plunder for the nations,
6 #
Ezek 25.5
and its daughter towns inland
shall be killed by the sword.
Then they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 #
Ezra 7.12; Jer 27.3–6; Ezek 23.24; Dan 2.37 For thus says the Lord GOD: I will bring against Tyre from the north King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon, king of kings, together with horses, chariots, cavalry, and a great and powerful army.
8 #
v 6
; Jer 6.6; 32.24; Ezek 21.22Your daughter towns inland
he shall put to the sword.
He shall set up a siege wall against you,
cast up a ramp against you,
and raise a roof of shields against you.
9 #
Ezek 21.22
He shall direct the shock of his battering rams against your walls
and break down your towers with his axes.
10 #
Jer 4.13; 39.3; Ezek 27.28 His horses shall be so many
that their dust shall cover you.
At the noise of cavalry, wheels, and chariots
your very walls shall shake
when he enters your gates
like those entering a breached city.
11 #
Isa 26.5; Jer 43.13; Hab 1.8 With the hoofs of his horses
he shall trample all your streets.
He shall put your people to the sword,
and your strong pillars shall fall to the ground.
12They will take your riches
and plunder your merchandise;
they shall break down your walls
and destroy your fine houses.
Your stones and timber and soil
they shall cast into the water.
13 #
Isa 14.11; 23.16; 25.10; Rev 18.22 I will silence the music of your songs;
the sound of your lyres shall be heard no more.
14I will make you a bare rock;
you shall be a place for spreading nets.
You shall never again be rebuilt,
for I the LORD have spoken,
says the Lord GOD.
15 #
v 18
; Ezek 31.16Thus says the Lord GOD to Tyre: Shall not the coastlands shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, when slaughter goes on within you? 16#Job 2.13; Ezek 27.35; Jon 3.6Then all the princes of the sea shall step down from their thrones; they shall remove their robes and strip off their embroidered garments. They shall clothe themselves with trembling and shall sit on the ground; they shall tremble every moment and be appalled at you. 17#Isa 23.4; Ezek 27.32; 28.2; Rev 18.9And they shall raise a lamentation over you and say to you:
“How you have vanished#26.17 Gk OL Aquila: Heb have vanished, O inhabited one, from the seas,
O city renowned,
once mighty on the sea,
you and your inhabitants,#26.17 Heb it and its inhabitants
who imposed your#26.17 Heb their terror
on all the mainland!#26.17 Cn: Heb its inhabitants
18 #
v 15
Now the coastlands tremble
on the day of your fall;
the coastlands by the sea
are dismayed at your passing.”
19For thus says the Lord GOD: When I make you a city laid waste, like cities that are not inhabited, when I bring up the deep over you and the great waters cover you, 20#Jer 33.9; Ezek 32.18, 24; Am 9.2then I will thrust you down with those who descend into the Pit, to the people of long ago, and I will make you live in the world below, among primeval ruins, with those who go down to the Pit, so that you will not be inhabited or have a place#26.20 Gk: Heb I will give beauty in the land of the living. 21#v 14; Ezek 27.36; 28.19I will bring you to a dreadful end, and you shall be no more; though sought for, you will never be found again, says the Lord GOD.
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