And it
came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first
day of the month, that the word of the Lord came
unto me, saying,
02 Son of man, because that Tyrus hath said
against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken that was
the gates of the people: she is turned unto me: I
shall be replenished, now she is laid waste:
03 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I
am against thee, O Tyrus, and will cause many
nations to come up against thee, as the sea
causeth his waves to come up.
04 And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and
break down her towers: I will also scrape her
dust from her, and make her like the top of a
rock.
05 It shall be a place for the spreading of nets
in the midst of the sea: for I have spoken it,
saith the Lord God: and it shall become a spoil
to the nations.
06 And her daughters which are in the field shall
be slain by the sword; and they shall know that I
am the Lord.
07 For thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will
bring upon Tyrus Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon,
a king of kings, from the north, with horses, and
with chariots, and with horsemen, and companies,
and much people.
08 He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in
the field: and he shall make a fort against thee,
and cast a mount against thee, and lift up the
buckler against thee.
09 And he shall set engines of war against thy
walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy
towers.
10 By reason of the abundance of his horses their
dust shall cover thee: thy walls shall shake at
the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheels, and
of the chariots, when he shall enter into thy
gates, as men enter into a city wherein is made a
breach.
11 With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread
down all thy streets: he shall slay thy people by
the sword, and thy strong garrisons shall go down
to the ground.
12 And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and
make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall
break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant
houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy
timber and thy dust in the midst of the water.
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13 And I will cause the noise of thy songs to
cease; and the sound of thy harps shall be no
more heard.
14 And I will make thee like the top of a rock:
thou shalt be a place to spread nets upon; thou
shalt be built no more: for I the Lord have
spoken it, saith the Lord God.
15 Thus saith the Lord God to Tyrus; Shall not
the isles shake at the sound of thy fall, when
the wounded cry, when the slaughter is made in
the midst of thee?
16 Then all the princes of the sea shall come
down from their thrones, and lay away their
robes, and put off their broidered garments: they
shall clothe themselves with trembling; they
shall sit upon the ground, and shall tremble at
every moment, and be astonished at thee.
17 And they shall take up a lamentation for thee,
and say to thee, How art thou destroyed, that
wast inhabited of seafaring men, the renowned
city, which wast strong in the sea, she and her
inhabitants, which cause their terror to be on
all that haunt it!
18 Now shall the isles tremble in the day of thy
fall; yea, the isles that are in the sea shall be
troubled at thy departure.
19 For thus saith the Lord God; When I shall make
thee a desolate city, like the cities that are
not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep
upon thee, and great waters shall cover thee;
20 When I shall bring thee down with them that
descend into the pit, with the people of old
time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the
earth, in places desolate of old, with them that
go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited;
and I shall set glory in the land of the living;
21 I will make thee a terror, and thou shalt be
no more: though thou be sought for, yet shalt
thou never be found again, saith the Lord God.
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