The Book of the Prophet Ezekiel 26 Prophecy against Tyre

 The Book of the Prophet Ezekiel 26

Prophecy against Tyre

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

2 “Son of man, because Tyre has said concerning Jerusalem, ‘Aha! Aha! The gate of the peoples is broken; it has turned to me; I will be filled, now that it is desolate,’

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

4 They shall destroy the walls of Tyre and break down its towers; I will sweep away its dust and make it a bare rock.

5 It shall become a place for spreading nets in the midst of the sea, for I have foretold it,’ says the Lord God, ‘and it shall become plunder for the nations.

6 Its daughters in the field shall be slain by the sword; And they will know that I am the Lord.

7 For thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will bring against Tyre Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, from the north, the king of kings, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and companies, and a great people.

8 He will kill your daughters with the sword in the field, and he will build a siege ramp against you, and he will erect siege works against you.

9 He will set up barbicans against your walls, and he will break down your towers with his axes.

10 By the multitude of his horses he will cover you with dust; your walls will tremble at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheels, and of the chariots, when he enters through your gates, as through the gates of a city that has been breached.

11 With the hooves of their horses they will trample all your streets; they will kill your people with the sword, and the pillars of your fortress will fall to the ground.

12 They will plunder your riches and loot your merchandise; they will break down your walls and demolish your precious houses; they will throw your stones, your timber, and your dust into the midst of the waters.

13 I will put an end to the noise of your songs, and the sound of your harps will no longer be heard.

14 I will make you a bare rock; you will become a place for spreading nets; you will never be rebuilt, for I, the Lord, have spoken, declares the Sovereign Lord.

15 This is what the Sovereign Lord says to Tyre: “Will not the islands tremble at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, when a terrible slaughter takes place in your midst?”

16 And all the princes of the sea shall descend from their thrones, and take off their robes, and strip off their embroidered garments: they shall be clothed with trembling, they shall sit upon the earth, and shall tremble every moment; and they shall be astonished because of you.

17 And they shall raise a lamentation over you, and say to you: How thou art perished, O well-populated and renowned city, which was strong on the sea; thou and thy inhabitants, which made all thy visitors afraid!

18 Now shall the islands tremble on the day of thy fall; the islands which are in the sea shall be shaken at thy departure.

19 For thus says the Lord God: When I have made you a desolate city, like cities that are not inhabited, when I have made a deep pit over you, and the many waters cover you,

20 Then I will bring you down with those who go down to the pit, with the ancient people, and I will lay you down in the lowest parts of the earth, in ancient desolate places, with those who go down to the pit, so that you will not be inhabited; and I will establish glory in the land of the living.

21 I will make you a great horror, and you will be no more; when they seek you, you will never be found again, says the Lord God.