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Prophesy Against Tyre

¹ Now it happened in the eleventh year, on the first of the month, that the word of Yahweh came to me saying,² "Son of man, because ^(C1)Tyre has said concerning Jerusalem, 'Aha, the ^(C2)gateway of the peoples is broken; it has ^(F1)(C3)opened to me. I shall be filled, now that she is laid waste,'³ therefore thus says Lord Yahweh, 'Behold, I am against you, O Tyre, and I will bring up ^(C1)many nations against you, as the ^(C2)sea brings up its waves.⁴ 'They will ^(C1)make the walls of Tyre a ruin and pull down her towers; and I will scrape her dust from her and make her a bare rock.⁵ 'She will be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea, for I have spoken,' declares Lord Yahweh, 'and she will become ^(C1)plunder for the nations.⁶ 'Also her ^(C1)daughters who are ^(F1)on the mainland will be killed by the sword, and they will know that I am Yahweh.'"

⁷ For thus says Lord Yahweh, "Behold, I will bring upon Tyre from the north Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, ^(C1)king of kings, with horses, ^(C2)chariots, horsemen, and an assembly, a great number of people.⁸ "He will kill your daughters ^(F1)on the mainland with the sword; and he will make ^(C1)siege walls against you, cast up a ^(C2)ramp against you, and raise up a large shield against you.⁹ "The blow of his battering rams he will direct against your walls, and with his swords he will tear down your towers.¹⁰ "Because of the abundance of his ^(C1)horses, the fine dust raised by them will cover you; your walls will ^(C2)shake at the noise of horsemen and ^(F1)wagons and chariots when he ^(C3)enters your gates as men enter a city that is breached.¹¹ "With the hoofs of his ^(C1)horses he will trample all your streets. He will kill your people with the sword; and your strong pillars will ^(C2)come down to the ground.¹² "Also they will make a spoil of your wealth and a plunder of your ^(C1)merchandise, and ^(C2)pull down your walls and tear down your ^(C3)desirable houses, and ^(F1)throw your stones and your timbers and your debris ^(C4)into the water.¹³ "So I will cause the tumult of your ^(C1)songs to cease, and the sound of your ^(C2)harps will be heard no more.¹⁴ "I will make you a bare rock; you will be a place for the spreading of nets. You will be ^(C1)built no more, for I ^(C2)Yahweh have spoken," declares Lord Yahweh.

¹⁵ Thus says Lord Yahweh to Tyre, "Shall not the ^(C1)coastlands ^(C2)shake at the sound of your downfall when the wounded groan, when the killing occurs in your midst?¹⁶ "Then all the princes of the sea will ^(C1)go down from their thrones, remove their robes, and strip off their embroidered garments. They will ^(C2)clothe themselves with ^(F1)trembling; they will sit on the ground, ^(C3)tremble every moment, and be appalled at you.¹⁷ "They will take up a ^(C1)lamentation over you and say to you,

'^(C2)How you have perished, O inhabited one,
From the seas, O city that was praised,
Which was ^(C3)strong on the sea,
She and her inhabitants,
Who ^(F1)imposed ^(F2)her terror
On all her inhabitants!

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

¹⁹ For thus says Lord Yahweh, "When I make you a city laid waste, like the cities which are not inhabited, when I ^(C1)bring up the deep over you and the great waters cover you,²⁰ then I will bring you down with those who ^(C1)go down to the pit, to the people of old, and I will make you inhabit the ^(C2)lower parts of the earth, like the ancient waste places, with those who go down to the pit, so that you will not ^(F1)be inhabited; but I will set ^(C3)glory in the land of the living.²¹ "I will ^(F1)bring ^(C1)terrors on you, and you will be no more; though you will be sought, ^(C2)you will never be found again," declares Lord Yahweh.