‘Aha, broken is the gateway of the peoples;
    it has swung open to me;
I shall be replenished,
    now that it is wasted’,

See, I am against you, O Tyre!
    I will hurl many nations against you,
    as the sea hurls its waves.
⁴ They shall destroy the walls of Tyre
    and break down its towers.
I will scrape its soil from it
    and make it a bare rock.
⁵ It shall become, in the midst of the sea,
    a place for spreading nets.

It shall become plunder for the nations,
⁶     and its daughter-towns in the country
    shall be killed by the sword.

⁸ Your daughter-towns in the country
    he shall put to the sword.
He shall set up a siege-wall against you,
    cast up a ramp against you,
    and raise a roof of shields against you.
⁹ He shall direct the shock of his battering-rams against your walls
    and break down your towers with his axes.
¹⁰ His horses shall be so many
    that their dust shall cover you.
At the noise of cavalry, wheels, and chariots
    your very walls shall shake,
when he enters your gates
    like those entering a breached city.
¹¹ With the hoofs of his horses
    he shall trample all your streets.
He shall put your people to the sword,
    and your strong pillars shall fall to the ground.
¹² They will plunder your riches
    and loot your merchandise;
they shall break down your walls
    and destroy your fine houses.
Your stones and timber and soil
    they shall cast into the water.
¹³ I will silence the music of your songs;
    the sound of your lyres shall be heard no more.
¹⁴ I will make you a bare rock;
    you shall be a place for spreading nets.
You shall never again be rebuilt,
    for I the Lord have spoken,
    says the Lord God.

How you have vanished^[a] from the seas,
    O city renowned,
once mighty on the sea,
    you and your inhabitants,^[b]
who imposed your^[c] terror
    on all the mainland!^[d]
18 Now the coastlands tremble
    on the day of your fall;
the coastlands by the sea
    are dismayed at your passing.