Previous Chapter Full Page Full Page Next Chapter

Ezekiel 26 :: New International Version (NIV)

A Prophecy Against Tyre

Eze 26:1

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

Eze 26:2

Eze 26:2“Son of man, because Tyre has said of Jerusalem, ‘Aha! The gate to the nations is broken, and its doors have swung open to me; now that she lies in ruins I will prosper,’

Eze 26:3

Eze 26:3therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am against you, Tyre, and I will bring many nations against you, like the sea casting up its waves.

Eze 26:4

Eze 26:4They will destroy the walls of Tyre and pull down her towers; I will scrape away her rubble and make her a bare rock.

Eze 26:5

Eze 26:5Out in the sea she will become a place to spread fishnets, for I have spoken, declares the Sovereign LORD. She will become plunder for the nations,

Eze 26:6

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

Eze 26:7

Eze 26:7“For this is what the Sovereign LORD says: From the north I am going to bring against Tyre Nebuchadnezzar[fn] king of Babylon, king of kings, with horses and chariots, with horsemen and a great army.

Eze 26:8

Eze 26:8He will ravage your settlements on the mainland with the sword; he will set up siege works against you, build a ramp up to your walls and raise his shields against you.

Eze 26:9

Eze 26:9He will direct the blows of his battering rams against your walls and demolish your towers with his weapons.

Eze 26:10

Eze 26:10His 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 when he enters your gates as men enter a city whose walls have been broken through.

Eze 26:11

Eze 26:11The hooves of his horses will trample all your streets; he will kill your people with the sword, and your strong pillars will fall to the ground.

Eze 26:12

Eze 26:12They 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.

Eze 26:13

Eze 26:13I will put an end to your noisy songs, and the music of your harps will be heard no more.

Eze 26:14

Eze 26:14I will make you a bare rock, and you will become a place to spread fishnets. You will never be rebuilt, for I the LORD have spoken, declares the Sovereign LORD.

Eze 26:15

Eze 26:15“This is what the Sovereign LORD says to Tyre: Will not the coastlands tremble at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan and the slaughter takes place in you?

Eze 26:16

Eze 26:16Then all the princes of the coast will step down from their thrones and lay aside their robes and take off their embroidered garments. Clothed with terror, they will sit on the ground, trembling every moment, appalled at you.

Eze 26:17

Eze 26:17Then they will take up a lament 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.

Eze 26:18

Eze 26:18Now the coastlands tremble on the day of your fall; the islands in the sea are terrified at your collapse.’

Eze 26:19

Eze 26:19“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 over you and its vast waters cover you,

Eze 26:20

Eze 26:20then I will bring you down with those who go down to the pit, 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[fn] in the land of the living.

Eze 26:21

Eze 26:21I will bring you to a horrible end and you will be no more. You will be sought, but you will never again be found, declares the Sovereign LORD.”
See the NIV Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
NIV Footnotes
Probable reading of the original Hebrew text; Masoretic Text does not have month of the twelfth.
Hebrew Nebuchadrezzar, of which Nebuchadnezzar is a variant; here and often in Ezekiel and Jeremiah
Septuagint; Hebrew return, and I will give glory
Translation Copyright Logo

THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®, NIV®
Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.®
Used by Permission of Biblica, Inc.® All rights reserved worldwide.


See detailed copyright information.

For more information on this translation, see the NIV Preface.

Ezekiel Chapter 26 — Additional Translations:

King James Version New King James Version New Living Translation English Standard Version Christian Standard Bible New American Standard Bible 2020 New American Standard Bible 1995 Legacy Standard Bible Amplified Bible New English Translation Revised Standard Version American Standard Version Young's Literal Translation Darby Translation Webster's Bible Hebrew Names Version Latin Vulgate Westminster Leningrad Codex Septuagint Smith Van Dyck Arabic Bible Open New Arabic Version Brenton's English Septuagint Reina Valera 1909 Reina-Valera 1960 Bible in Basic English Chinese Traditional Union Espanol Moderno Korean Holy Bible Louis Segond German Luther Russian Synodal Translation Sagradas Escrituras

Did You Know BLB Is User Supported?

Your partnership makes all we do possible. Would you prayerfully consider a gift of support today?

Remind Me
Dismiss