Prophesy Against Tyre
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 aTyre has said concerning Jerusalem, ‘Aha, the bgateway of the peoples is broken; it has copened 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 amany nations against you, as the bsea brings up its waves. 4 They will amake 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 aplunder for the nations. 6 Also her adaughters who are 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, aking of kings, with horses, bchariots, horsemen, and an assembly, a great number of people. 8 He will kill your daughters on the mainland with the sword; and he will make asiege walls against you, cast up a bramp 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 ahorses, the fine dust raised by them will cover you; your walls will bshake at the noise of horsemen and wagons and chariots when he centers your gates as men enter a city that is breached. 11 With the hoofs of his ahorses he will trample all your streets. He will kill your people with the sword; and your strong pillars will bcome down to the ground. 12 Also they will make a spoil of your wealth and a plunder of your amerchandise, and bpull down your walls and tear down your cdesirable houses, and throw your stones and your timbers and your debris dinto the water. 13 So I will cause the tumult of your asongs to cease, and the sound of your bharps 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 abuilt no more, for I bYahweh have spoken,” declares Lord Yahweh.
15 Thus says Lord Yahweh to Tyre, “Shall not the acoastlands bshake 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 ago down from their thrones, remove their robes, and strip off their embroidered garments. They will bclothe themselves with trembling; they will sit on the ground, ctremble every moment, and be appalled at you. 17 They will take up a alamentation over you and say to you,
‘bHow you have perished, O inhabited one,
From the seas, O city that was praised,
Which was cstrong on the sea,
She and her inhabitants,
Who imposed her terror
On all her inhabitants!
18 Now the acoastlands will tremble
On the day of your downfall;
Yes, the coastlands which are by the sea
Will be dismayed at your bdeparture.’”
19 For thus says Lord Yahweh, “When I make you a city laid waste, like the cities which are not inhabited, when I abring up the deep over you and the great waters cover you, 20 then I will bring you down with those who ago down to the pit, to the people of old, and I will make you inhabit the blower parts of the earth, like the ancient waste places, with those who go down to the pit, so that you will not be inhabited; but I will set cglory in the land of the living. 21 I will bring aterrors on you, and you will be no more; though you will be sought, byou will never be found again,” declares Lord Yahweh.