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18 Now the people who live by the coast
    will shake with fear on the day you fall.
The islands of the sea
    will be afraid because you have been defeated.’

19 “This is what the Lord God says: I will make you an empty city. You will be like the cities that have no people living in them. I will bring the deep ocean waters over you. The Mediterranean Sea will cover you. 20 At that time I will send you down to the place of the dead. You will join the people who died long ago. I will make you live with the dead below the earth among old ruined places. You will not come back from there. People will never live in you again.

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18 Now the coastlands tremble(A)
    on the day of your fall;
the islands in the sea
    are terrified at your collapse.’(B)

19 “This is what the Sovereign Lord says: When I make you a desolate city, like cities no longer inhabited, and when I bring the ocean depths(C) over you and its vast waters cover you,(D) 20 then I will bring you down with those who go down to the pit,(E) to the people of long ago. I will make you dwell in the earth below, as in ancient ruins, with those who go down to the pit, and you will not return or take your place[a] in the land of the living.(F)

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 26:20 Septuagint; Hebrew return, and I will give glory