1 It happened in the eleventh year, in the first day of the
month, that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying, 2 Son of man, because
Tyre has said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken: the gate of the peoples;
she is turned to me; I shall be replenished, now that she is laid waste:
3 therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, Behold, I am against you, Tyre, and
will cause many nations to come up against you, as the sea causes its waves
to come up. 4 They shall destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down her
towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her a bare rock.
5 She shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea;
for I have spoken it, says the Lord Yahweh; and she shall become a spoil to
the nations. 6 Her daughters who are in the field shall be slain with the
sword: and they shall know that I am Yahweh. 7 For thus says the Lord
Yahweh: Behold, I will bring on Tyre Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, king of
kings, from the north, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and
a company, and much people. 8 He shall kill with the sword your daughters
in the field; and he shall make forts against you, and cast up a mound
against you, and raise up the buckler against you. 9 He shall set his
battering engines against your walls, and with his axes he shall break down
your towers. 10 By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall
cover you: your walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the
wagons, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into your gates, as men
enter into a city in which is made a breach. 11 With the hoofs of his
horses shall he tread down all your streets; he shall kill your people with
the sword; and the pillars of your strength shall go down to the ground.
12 They shall make a spoil of your riches, and make a prey of your
merchandise; and they shall break down your walls, and destroy your pleasant
houses; and they shall lay your stones and your timber and your dust in the
midst of the waters. 13 I will cause the noise of your songs to cease; and
the sound of your harps shall be no more heard. 14 I will make you a bare
rock; you shall be a place for the spreading of nets; you shall be built no
more: for I Yahweh have spoken it, says the Lord Yahweh. 15 Thus says the
Lord Yahweh to Tyre: shall not the isles shake at the sound of your fall,
when the wounded groan, when the slaughter is made in the midst of you?
16 Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and
lay aside their robes, and strip off their embroidered garments: they shall
clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit on the ground, and shall
tremble every moment, and be astonished at you. 17 They shall take up a
lamentation over you, and tell you, How are you destroyed, who were inhabited
by seafaring men, the renowned city, who was strong in the sea, she and her
inhabitants, who caused their terror to be on all who lived there! 18 Now
shall the isles tremble in the day of your fall; yes, the isles that are in
the sea shall be dismayed at your departure. 19 For thus says the Lord
Yahweh: When I shall make you a desolate city, like the cities that are not
inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep on you, and the great waters shall
cover you; 20 then will I bring you down with those who descend into the
pit, to the people of old time, and will make you to dwell in the lower parts
of the earth, in the places that are desolate of old, with those who go down
to the pit, that you be not inhabited; and I will set glory in the land of
the living: 21 I will make you a terror, and you shall no more have any
being; though you are sought for, yet shall you never be found again, says
the Lord Yahweh.
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