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The Lord says, ‘The people in Tyre have done more and more wrong things. So I will certainly punish them.

Before, they had been friends with the people in Israel. They had promised to those people, “We will be like brothers.” But the people from Tyre did not do what they had promised. They took my people away. They sold my people to the people in Edom and my people became slaves. 10 So I will start a fire on the walls of Tyre city. And the fire will burn all the strong buildings. It will destroy them completely.’

11 The Lord says, ‘The people in Edom have done more and more wrong things. So I will certainly punish them.

They took their swords and they chased after their cousins, the Israelites.[a] They were not kind. Instead, they continued to be angry all the time. They did not stop attacking them.

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Footnotes

  1. 1:11 The Edomites and the Israelites were from the same family. The Edomites were descendants of Esau. The Israelites were descendants of Jacob. These two brothers were born at the same time from the same mother. Jacob also had the name Israel.

This is what the Lord says:

“For three sins of Tyre,(A)
    even for four, I will not relent.(B)
Because she sold whole communities of captives to Edom,
    disregarding a treaty of brotherhood,(C)
10 I will send fire on the walls of Tyre
    that will consume her fortresses.(D)

11 This is what the Lord says:

“For three sins of Edom,(E)
    even for four, I will not relent.
Because he pursued his brother with a sword(F)
    and slaughtered the women of the land,
because his anger raged continually
    and his fury flamed unchecked,(G)

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