Ezekiel 26 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

Prophecy Against Tyre

Eze 26:1In the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me:

Eze 26:2“Son of man, because Tyre said concerning Jerusalem, ‘Aha, the gate of the peoples is broken; it has swung open to me. I shall be replenished, now that she is laid waste,’

Eze 26:3

Eze 26:3therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against you, O Tyre, and will bring up many nations against you, as the sea brings up its waves.

Eze 26:4

Eze 26:4They shall destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers, and I will scrape her soil from her and make her a bare rock.

Eze 26:5

Eze 26:5She shall be in the midst of the sea a place for the spreading of nets, for I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD. And she shall become plunder for the nations,

Eze 26:6

Eze 26:6and her daughters on the mainland shall be killed by the sword. Then they will know that I am the LORD.

Eze 26:7

Eze 26:7“For thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will bring against Tyre from the north Nebuchadnezzar[fn] king of Babylon, king of kings, with horses and chariots, and with horsemen and a host of many soldiers.

Eze 26:8

Eze 26:8He will kill with the sword your daughters on the mainland. He will set up a siege wall against you and throw up a mound against you, and raise a roof of shields against you.

Eze 26:9

Eze 26:9He will direct the shock of his battering rams against your walls, and with his axes he will break down your towers.

Eze 26:10

Eze 26:10His horses will be so many that their dust will cover you. Your walls will shake at the noise of the horsemen and wagons and chariots, when he enters your gates as men enter a city that has been breached.

Eze 26:11

Eze 26:11With the hoofs of his horses he will trample all your streets. He will kill your people with the sword, and your mighty pillars will fall to the ground.

Eze 26:12

Eze 26:12They will plunder your riches and loot your merchandise. They will break down your walls and destroy your pleasant houses. Your stones and timber and soil they will cast into the midst of the waters.

Eze 26:13

Eze 26:13And I will stop the music of your songs, and the sound of your lyres shall be heard no more.

Eze 26:14

Eze 26:14I will make you a bare rock. You shall be a place for the spreading of nets. You shall never be rebuilt, for I am the LORD; I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD.

Eze 26:15

Eze 26:15“Thus says the Lord GOD to Tyre: Will not the coastlands shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, when slaughter is made in your midst?

Eze 26:16

Eze 26:16Then all the princes of the sea will step down from their thrones and remove their robes and strip off their embroidered garments. They will clothe themselves with trembling; they will sit on the ground and tremble every moment and be appalled at you.

Eze 26:17

Eze 26:17And they will raise a lamentation over you and say to you,
“‘How you have perished,
you who were inhabited from the seas,
O city renowned,
who was mighty on the sea;
she and her inhabitants imposed their terror
on all her inhabitants!

Eze 26:18

Eze 26:18Now the coastlands tremble
on the day of your fall,
and the coastlands that are on the sea
are dismayed at your passing.’

Eze 26:19

Eze 26:19“For thus says the Lord GOD: When I make you a city laid waste, like the cities that are not inhabited, when I bring up the deep over you, and the great waters cover you,

Eze 26:20

Eze 26:20then I will make you go down with those who go down to the pit, to the people of old, and I will make you to dwell in the world below, among ruins from of old, with those who go down to the pit, so that you will not be inhabited; but I will set beauty in the land of the living.

Eze 26:21

Eze 26:21I will bring you to a dreadful end, and you shall be no more. Though you be sought for, you will never be found again, declares the Lord GOD.”

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(26:7)

Hebrew Nebuchadrezzar; so throughout Ezekiel

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