| 26 | Ezekiel | ||
| 1 | In the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, the word of Yahweh came to me: | Prophecy against Tyre. Eze.26.1-21 | |
| 2 | "Son of man, because Tyre said concerning Jerusalem, 'Aha, the gate of the peoples is broken, it has swung open to me; I shall be replenished, now that she is laid waste,' | ||
| 3 | therefore thus says Yahweh GOD: Behold, I am against you, O Tyre, and will bring up many nations against you, as the sea brings up its waves. | ||
| 4 | They shall destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down her towers; and I will scrape her soil from her, and make her a bare rock. | ||
| 5 | She shall be in the midst of the sea a place for the spreading of nets; for I have spoken, says Yahweh GOD; and she shall become a spoil to the nations; | ||
| 6 | and her daughters on the mainland shall be slain by the sword. Then they will know that I am Yahweh. | ||
| 7 | "For thus says Yahweh GOD: Behold, I will bring upon Tyre from the north Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, with horses and chariots, and with horsemen and a host of many soldiers. | ||
| 8 | He will slay with the sword your daughters on the mainland; he will set up a siege wall against you, and throw up a mound against you, and raise a roof of shields against you. | ||
| 9 | He will direct the shock of his battering rams against your walls, and with his axes he will break down your towers. | ||
| 10 | His horses will be so many that their dust will cover you; your walls will shake at the noise of the horsemen and wagons and chariots, when he enters your gates as one enters a city which has been breached. | ||
| 11 | With the hoofs of his horses he will trample all your streets; he will slay your people with the sword; and your mighty pillars will fall to the ground. | ||
| 12 | They will make a spoil of your riches and a prey of your merchandise; they will break down your walls and destroy your pleasant houses; your stones and timber and soil they will cast into the midst of the waters. | ||
| 13 | And I will stop the music of your songs, and the sound of your lyres shall be heard no more. | ||
| 14 | I will make you a bare rock; you shall be a place for the spreading of nets; you shall never be rebuilt; for I Yahweh have spoken, says Yahweh GOD. | ||
| 15 | "Thus says Yahweh GOD to Tyre: Will not the coastlands shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, when slaughter is made in the midst of you? | ||
| 16 | Then all the princes of the sea will step down from their thrones, and remove their robes, and strip off their embroidered garments; they will clothe themselves with trembling; they will sit upon the ground and tremble every moment, and be appalled at you. | ||
| 17 | And they will raise a lamentation over you, and say to you, O city renowned, that was mighty on the sea, you and your inhabitants, who imposed your terror on all the mainland! | ||
| 18 | Now the isles tremble on the day of your fall; yea, the isles that are in the sea are dismayed at your passing.' | ||
| 19 | "For thus says Yahweh GOD: When I make you a city laid waste, like the cities that are not inhabited, when I bring up the deep over you, and the great waters cover you, | ||
| 20 | then I will thrust you down with those who descend into the Pit, to the people of old, and I will make you to dwell in the nether world, among primeval ruins, with those who go down to the Pit, so that you will not be inhabited or have a place in the land of the living. | ||
| 21 | I will bring you to a dreadful end, and you shall be no more; though you be sought for, you will never be found again, says Yahweh GOD." | ||
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