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Judgment on the City of Tyre

26 (A) Eleven years[a] after King Jehoiachin and the rest of us had been led away as prisoners to Babylonia, the Lord spoke to me on the first day of the month. He said:

Ezekiel, son of man, the people of the city of Tyre[b] have celebrated Jerusalem's defeat by singing,

“Jerusalem has fallen!
It used to be powerful,
    a center of trade.
Now the city is shattered,
    and we will take its place.”

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Footnotes

  1. 26.1 Eleven years: Probably late in 587 b.c.
  2. 26.2 Tyre: One of the two major cities of Phoenicia; Sidon was the other.

A Prophecy Against Tyre

26 In the eleventh month of the twelfth[a] year, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:(A) “Son of man, because Tyre(B) has said of Jerusalem, ‘Aha!(C) The gate to the nations is broken, and its doors have swung open to me; now that she lies in ruins I will prosper,’

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 26:1 Probable reading of the original Hebrew text; Masoretic Text does not have month of the twelfth.