1It was the first day of the 11th month. It was the 12th year since King Jehoiachin had been brought to Babylon as a prisoner. A message from the LORD came to me. The LORD said,2‘Son of man, Tyre laughed because of what happened to Jerusalem. The people of Tyre said, “Jerusalem is the gateway to the nations. But the gate is broken. Its doors have swung open to us. Jerusalem has been destroyed. So now we will succeed.” ’3The LORD and King says, ‘But I am against you, Tyre. I will bring many nations against you. They will come in like the waves of the sea.4They will destroy your walls. They will pull down your towers. I will clear away the stones of your broken-down buildings. I will turn you into nothing but a bare rock.5Out in the Mediterranean Sea your island city will become a place to spread fishing nets. I have spoken,’ announces the LORD and King. ‘The nations will take you and everything you have.6Your settlements on the coast will be destroyed by war. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’7The LORD and King says, ‘From the north I am going to bring Nebuchadnezzar against Tyre. He is the king of Babylon. He is the greatest king of all. He will come with horses and chariots. Horsemen and a great army will be brought along with him.8He will go to war against you. He will destroy your settlements on the coast. He will bring in war machines to attack you. A ramp will be built up to your walls. He will raise his shields against you.9He will use huge logs to knock down your walls. He will destroy your towers with his weapons.10He will have so many horses that they will cover you with dust. Your walls will shake because of the noise of his war horses, wagons and chariots. He will enter your gates, just as men enter a city whose walls have been broken through.11The hooves of his horses will pound in your streets. His swords will kill your people. Your strong pillars will fall to the ground.12His men will take away from you your wealth and anything else you have. They will pull down your walls. They will completely destroy your fine houses. They will throw the stones and lumber of your broken-down buildings into the sea.13I will put an end to your noisy songs. No one will hear the music of your harps anymore.14I will turn you into nothing but a bare rock. You will become a place to spread fishing nets. You will never be rebuilt. I have spoken. I am the LORD,’ announces the LORD and King.15The LORD and King speaks to Tyre. He says, ‘The lands along the coast will shake because of the sound of your fall. Wounded people will groan because so many are dying there.16Then all the princes along the coast will step down from their thrones. They will put their robes away. They will take off their beautiful clothes. They will sit on the ground. They will put on terror as if it were their clothes. They will tremble with fear all the time. They will be shocked because of what has happened to you.17Then they will sing a song of sadness about you. They will say to you, ‘ “Famous city, you have been completely destroyed! You were filled with sea traders. You and your citizens were a mighty power on the seas. You terrified everyone who lived in you.18The lands along the coast trembled with fear when you fell. The islands in the sea were terrified when you were destroyed.” ’19The LORD and King says to Tyre, ‘I will turn you into an empty city. You will be like cities where no one lives anymore. I will cause the ocean to sweep over you. Its mighty waters will cover you.20So I will bring you down together with those who go down into the grave. The people there lived long ago. You will have to live in the earth below. It will be like living in buildings that were destroyed many years ago. You will go down into the grave along with others. And you will never come back. You will not take your place in this world again.21I will bring you to a horrible end. You will be gone for ever. People will look for you. But they will never find you,’ announces the LORD and King.
Ezekiel 26
English Standard Version
Prophecy Against Tyre
1In the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me: (Eze 20:1)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,’ (Isa 23:1; Eze 2:1; Eze 25:3; Eze 36:2)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. (Jer 34:1; La 2:13; Eze 13:8; Eze 32:3)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 24:7)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 17:24; Eze 47:10)6and her daughters on the mainland shall be killed by the sword. Then they will know that I am the Lord. (Eze 6:7)7“For thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will bring against Tyre from the north Nebuchadnezzar[1] king of Babylon, king of kings, with horses and chariots, and with horsemen and a host of many soldiers. (Ezr 7:12; Jer 1:14; Eze 29:18; Da 2:37; Ho 8:10)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. (2Ki 19:32; Eze 4:2; Eze 26:6)9He will direct the shock of his battering rams against your walls, and with his axes he will break down your towers. (Eze 4:2; Eze 21:22)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.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.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 26:4; Eze 27:12)13And I will stop the music of your songs, and the sound of your lyres shall be heard no more. (Isa 5:12; Isa 23:16; Isa 24:8; Jer 7:34; Jer 16:9)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 26:4; Eze 26:5)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? (Jer 51:52; Eze 27:35)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. (Isa 3:26; Isa 23:8; Eze 27:35; Eze 32:10; Jon 3:6)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! (Isa 23:4; Eze 19:1; Eze 27:2; Eze 27:32; Eze 32:23; Re 18:9)18Now the coastlands tremble on the day of your fall, and the coastlands that are on the sea are dismayed at your passing.’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 26:3; Eze 27:34)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. (Ps 27:13; Eze 31:14; Eze 31:16; Eze 32:18; Eze 32:23; Eze 32:24; Eze 32:27; Eze 32:32)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.” (Ps 37:36; Eze 27:36; Eze 28:19)