on many waters.
Tyre’s revenue was the grain from Shihor—
the harvest of the Nile.
She was the merchant among the nations.(A)

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17 Then they will lament(A) for you and say of you:

How you have perished, city of renown,
you who were populated from the seas![a]
She who was powerful on the sea,
she and all of her inhabitants
inflicted their terror.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 26:17 Some LXX mss read How you were destroyed from the seas, city of renown!
  2. Ezekiel 26:17 Lit and all her inhabitants who put their terror on all her inhabitants; Hb obscure

“Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre: This is what the Lord God says:

Your[a] heart is proud,
and you have said, ‘I am a god;(A)
I sit in the seat of gods
in the heart of the sea.’
Yet you are a man and not a god,
though you have regarded your heart
as that of a god.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 28:2 Lit Because your

The Lord says:

I will not relent from punishing Tyre(A)
for three crimes, even four,
because they handed over
a whole community of exiles to Edom
and broke[a] a treaty of brotherhood.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 1:9 Lit and did not remember

and also against Hamath,(A) which borders it,
as well as Tyre(B) and Sidon,(C)
though they are very shrewd.

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22 But I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment(A) than for you.

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