Judgment on Tyre

26 Now in the eleventh year, on the first of the month, the word of the Lord came to me saying, ² “Son of man, because ^(A)Tyre has said concerning Jerusalem, ‘Aha, the ^(B)gateway of the peoples is broken; it has ^[a](C)opened to me. I shall be filled, now that she is laid waste,’ ³ therefore thus says the Lord ^[b]God, ‘Behold, I am against you, O Tyre, and I will bring up ^(D)many nations against you, as the ^(E)sea brings up its waves. ⁴ They will ^(F)destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers; and I will scrape her debris 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 the Lord God, ‘and she will become ^(G)spoil for the nations. ⁶ Also her ^(H)daughters who are ^[c]on the mainland will be slain by the sword, and they will know that I am the Lord.’”

⁷ For thus says the Lord God, “Behold, I will bring upon Tyre from the north Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, ^(I)king of kings, with horses, ^(J)chariots, cavalry and ^[d]a great army. ⁸ He will slay your daughters ^[e]on the mainland with the sword; and he will make ^(K)siege walls against you, cast up a ^(L)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 ^[f]axes he will break down your towers. ¹⁰ Because of the multitude of his ^(M)horses, the dust raised by them will cover you; your walls will ^(N)shake at the noise of cavalry and ^[g]wagons and chariots when he ^(O)enters your gates as men enter a city that is breached. ¹¹ With the hoofs of his ^(P)horses he will trample all your streets. He will slay your people with the sword; and your strong pillars will ^(Q)come down to the ground. ¹² Also they will make a spoil of your riches and a prey of your ^(R)merchandise, ^(S)break down your walls and destroy your ^(T)pleasant houses, and ^[h]throw your stones and your timbers and your debris ^(U)into the water. ¹³ So I will ^[i]silence the sound of your ^(V)songs, and the sound of your ^(W)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 ^(X)built no more, for I the ^(Y)Lord have spoken,” declares the Lord God.

¹⁵ Thus says the Lord God to Tyre, “Shall not the ^(Z)coastlands ^(AA)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 ^(AB)go down from their thrones, remove their robes and strip off their embroidered garments. They will ^(AC)clothe themselves with ^[j]trembling; they will sit on the ground, ^(AD)tremble every moment and be appalled at you. ¹⁷ They will take up a ^(AE)lamentation over you and say to you,

¹⁹ For thus says the Lord God, “When I make you a desolate city, like the cities which are not inhabited, when I ^(AJ)bring up the deep over you and the great waters cover you, ²⁰ then I will bring you down with those who ^(AK)go down to the pit, to the people of old, and I will make you dwell in the ^(AL)lower parts of the earth, like the ancient waste places, with those who go down to the pit, so that you will not ^[m]be inhabited; but I will set ^(AM)glory in the land of the living. ²¹ I will ^[n]bring ^(AN)terrors on you and you will be no more; though you will be sought, ^(AO)you will never be found again,” declares the Lord God.