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Judgment on Tyre

¹ Now in the eleventh year, on the first day of the month after the capture of King Jehoiachin, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,² "Son of man, because ^(F1)(C1)Tyre has said against Jerusalem, 'Aha! The ^(C2)gateway of the people is broken; she is ^(C3)open to me. I will be filled, now that she is a desolate waste,'³ therefore, thus says the Lord GOD, 'Behold, I am against you, O Tyre, and I will cause ^(C1)many nations to come up against you, as the ^(C2)sea makes its waves crest.⁴ 'They will ^(C1)destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers; and I will scrape her dust and debris from her and make her as bare as the top of a rock.⁵ 'Her island in the midst of the sea will become a dry place to spread nets, for I have spoken,' says the Lord GOD, 'and she will become a prey and a ^(C1)spoil for the nations.⁶ 'Also Tyre's ^(C1)daughters (towns, villages) ^(F1)on the mainland will be killed by the sword, and they will know without any doubt that I am the LORD.'"

⁷ For thus says the Lord GOD, "Behold, I will bring upon Tyre from the north ^(F1)Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, ^(C1)king of kings, with horses and ^(C2)chariots and with horsemen and a great army.⁸ "He will kill your daughters on the mainland with the sword, and he shall make ^(C1)siege walls against you and build a ^(C2)siege ramp against you and raise a roof of large shields as a defense against you.⁹ "He will direct the shocking blow of his battering rams against your walls, and he will tear down your towers with his crowbars.¹⁰ "Because of the great number of his ^(C1)horses, their dust will cover you; your walls O Tyre will ^(C2)shake from the noise of the horsemen and the wagons and the chariots when he ^(C3)enters your gates as men enter a city that is breached.¹¹ "With the hoofs of his ^(C1)horses Nebuchadnezzar will trample all your streets; with the sword he will kill your people, and your strong pillars (obelisks) will ^(C2)fall to the ground.¹² "Also they will take your riches as spoil and plunder your ^(C1)merchandise, and ^(C2)tear down your walls and your ^(C3)pleasant houses, and throw your stones and your timber and the debris from your city out ^(C4)in the water.¹³ "So I will silence your ^(C1)songs, and the sound of your ^(C2)lyres will no longer be heard.¹⁴ "I will make you Tyre a ^(F1)bare rock; you will be a dry place on which to spread nets. You will ^(C1)never be rebuilt, for I the ^(C2)LORD have spoken," says the Lord GOD.

¹⁵ Thus says the Lord GOD to Tyre, "Shall not the ^(C1)coastlands ^(C2)shake at the sound of your fall when the wounded groan, when the slaughter occurs in your midst?¹⁶ "Then all the princes of the sea will ^(C1)go down from their thrones and remove their robes and take off their embroidered garments. They will ^(C2)clothe themselves with trembling; they will sit on the ground, ^(C3)tremble again and again, and be appalled at you.¹⁷ "They will take up a ^(C1)dirge (funeral poem to be sung) for you and say to you,

'^(C2)How you have perished and vanished, O renowned city,
From the seas, O renowned city,
Which was ^(C3)mighty on the sea,
She and her inhabitants,
Who imposed her terror
On all who lived there!

¹⁸ 'Now the ^(C1)coastlands will tremble
On the day of your fall;
Yes, the coastlands which are by the sea
Will be terrified at your ^(C2)departure.'"

¹⁹ For thus says the Lord GOD, "When I make you a desolate city, like the cities which are not inhabited, when ^(C1)I bring up the deep over you and great waters cover you,²⁰ then I will bring you down with those who ^(C1)descend into the pit (the place of the dead), to the people of old, and I will make you Tyre live in the ^(C2)depths of the earth, like the ancient ruins, with those who go down to the pit, so that you will not be inhabited; but I will set ^(C3)glory and splendor in the land of the living.²¹ "I will bring ^(C1)terrors on you and you will be no more. Though you will be sought, yet ^(C2)you will never be found again," says the Lord GOD.