Ezekiel 26
26
Against Tyre
1In the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, the LORD’s word came to me:
2Human one, because Tyre laughed at Jerusalem:
“The gate of the peoples is broken,
she lies open before me,
she is destroyed, but I will succeed!”
3The LORD God now proclaims:
Tyre, I’m now against you!
Just as the sea hurls up its waves,
I will bring many nations up against you.
4When they destroy the walls of Tyre
and throw down its towers,
I will scrape off all its dirt
and make it into a bare rock,
5a place for drying nets
in the middle of the sea.
I have spoken! This is what the LORD God says.
It will become prey for the nations,
6and its towns around it
will be put to the sword.
Then they will know that I am the LORD.
7The LORD God proclaims:
I’m bringing Nebuchadrezzar against Tyre,
the king of Babylon from the north,
the greatest of all kings,
with horses, chariots, and charioteers,
an assembly, a great army.
8The towns around you he will destroy with the sword.
Then he will build towers against you,
erect siege ramps against you,
and set up shields.
9He will pound his battering ram against your walls;
with crowbars he will tear down your towers.
10The dust from all his horses will cover you
when he enters your gates
as one who enters a breached city.
Your walls will quake
at the thundering of the charioteers and chariot wheels.
11His horses’ hooves will trample all your courtyards;
he will cut down your people with the sword,
and the monuments to your strength he will bring down#26.11 LXX; MT it will fall to the ground.
12They will destroy your wealth, plunder your goods,
tear down your walls, and raze your fine houses.
Your stone, lumber, and rubble they will dump into the sea.
13I will bring an end to your cacophonous songs;
the sound of your lyres will never be heard again.
14I will make you into a bare rock, a place for drying nets,
and you will never be rebuilt.
I, the LORD, have spoken.
This is what the LORD God says.
A lament for Tyre
15The LORD God proclaims to Tyre: Won’t the coastlands quake at the news of your downfall, when the wounded groan, and when the slaughter in your midst goes on and on? 16All the princes of the sea will come down from their thrones, remove their royal robes, and strip off their fine garments. They will be clothed only in terror as they sit on the ground. They will be so terrified, they won’t stop shuddering because of you. 17They will sing a lament for you, and they will say:
How you have perished, queen of the sea,
city once praised,
who once dominated the sea,
she and her rulers,
who spread their terror abroad,
every one of them.
18Now the wastelands tremble on the day of your fall.
Your expulsion horrifies the islands of the sea.
19The LORD God proclaims: When I turn you into ruins like uninhabitable cities, when the deep sea washes over you and the raging seas cover you, 20I will lead you down into the pit, to the everlasting people. I will install you in the world below,#26.20 Or the land of the lowest places in the everlasting ruins, with those who go down to the pit. And so you will neither rule nor radiate splendor in the land of the living. 21I will terrify you, and you will disappear. You will be sought but never found again. This is what the LORD God says.
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