In the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, the word of
the LORD came to me: “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,’
therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against you, O Tyre,
and will bring up many nations against you, as the sea brings up
its waves. 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. She shall be in the midst of the sea a place for the
spreading of nets, for I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD. And
she shall become plunder for the nations, and her daughters on the
mainland shall be killed by the sword. Then they will know that I
am the LORD.
“For thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will bring against Tyre
from the north Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, with
horses and chariots, and with horsemen and a host of many soldiers.
He will kill 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. He will direct the shock
of his battering rams against your walls, and with his axes he will
break down your towers. 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 men enter a
city that has been breached. With the hoofs of his horses he will
trample all your streets. He will kill your people with the sword,
and your mighty pillars will fall to the ground. They will plunder
your riches and loot 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. And I will stop
the music of your songs, and the sound of your lyres shall be heard
no more. I will make you a bare rock. You shall be a place for the
spreading of nets. You shall never be rebuilt, for I am the LORD; I
have spoken, declares the Lord GOD.
“Thus says the Lord GOD to Tyre: Will not the coastlands shake at
the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, when slaughter is
made in your midst? 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 on the ground and tremble every moment and be
appalled at you. And they will raise a lamentation over you and say
to you,
“‘How you have perished,
you who were inhabited from the seas,
O city renowned,
who was mighty on the sea;
she and her inhabitants imposed their terror
on all her inhabitants!
Now the coastlands tremble
on the day of your fall,
and the coastlands that are on the sea
are dismayed at your passing.’
“For thus says the Lord 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, then I will make you
go down with those who go down to the pit, to the people of old,
and I will make you to dwell in the world below, among ruins from
of old, with those who go down to the pit, so that you will not be
inhabited; but I will set beauty in the land of the living. 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, declares the Lord
GOD.”
