Ezechiele 26
Nuova Riveduta 1994
Profezie contro Tiro
26 (A)L'anno undicesimo, il primo giorno del mese, la parola del Signore mi fu rivolta in questi termini:
2 «*Figlio d'uomo, poiché *Tiro ha detto di *Gerusalemme: “Ah! ah!
è infranta colei che era la porta dei popoli!
La gente si volge verso di me!
Io li riempirò di lei che è deserta!”
3 Perciò cosí parla Dio, il Signore:
Eccomi contro di te, o Tiro!
Io farò salire contro di te molti popoli,
come il mare fa salire le proprie onde.
4 Essi distruggeranno le mura di Tiro
e abbatteranno le sue torri;
io spazzerò via da lei la polvere
e farò di lei una roccia nuda.
5 Essa sarà, in mezzo al mare, un luogo da stendere le reti,
poiché io ho parlato, dice Dio, il Signore;
essa sarà abbandonata al saccheggio delle nazioni;
6 le sue figlie[a], che sono nei campi,
saranno uccise dalla spada
e quelli di Tiro sapranno che io sono il Signore.
7 Infatti cosí dice Dio, il Signore: Ecco, io faccio venire dal settentrione, contro Tiro, *Nabucodonosor, re di *Babilonia, il re dei re, con cavalli, carri e cavalieri, e una gran moltitudine. 8 Egli ucciderà con la spada le tue figlie che sono nei campi, farà contro di te delle torri, innalzerà contro di te dei bastioni, farà muovere contro di te gli scudi; 9 dirigerà contro le tue mura i suoi arieti e con i suoi picconi abbatterà le tue torri. 10 La moltitudine dei suoi cavalli sarà tale che la polvere sollevata da loro ti coprirà; lo strepito dei suoi cavalieri, dei veicoli e dei suoi carri, farà tremare le tue mura, quando egli entrerà per le tue porte, come si entra in una città dove si è aperta una breccia. 11 Con gli zoccoli dei suoi cavalli egli calpesterà tutte le tue strade; ucciderà il tuo popolo con la spada, e le colonne in cui riponi la tua forza cadranno a terra. 12 Essi faranno bottino delle tue ricchezze, saccheggeranno le tue mercanzie, abbatteranno le tue mura, distruggeranno le tue case deliziose, getteranno in mezzo al mare le tue pietre, il tuo legname, la tua polvere. 13 Io farò cessare il rumore dei tuoi canti e il suono delle tue arpe non si udrà piú. 14 Ti ridurrò a essere una roccia nuda; tu sarai un luogo da stendervi le reti; tu non sarai piú ricostruita, perché io, il Signore, ho parlato, dice Dio, il Signore.
15 Cosí parla Dio, il Signore, a Tiro:
Sí, al rumore della tua caduta,
al gemito dei feriti a morte,
al massacro che si farà in mezzo a te,
tremeranno le isole.
16 Tutti i príncipi del mare scenderanno dai loro troni,
si toglieranno i loro mantelli,
deporranno le loro vesti ricamate;
si avvolgeranno nello spavento, si siederanno per terra,
tremeranno a ogni istante,
saranno costernati a causa di te.
17 Su di te faranno un lamento e ti diranno:
“Come mai sei distrutta,
tu che eri abitata da gente di mare,
la città famosa, che eri cosí potente in mare,
tu che al pari dei tuoi abitanti
incutevi terrore a tutti gli abitanti della terra!
18 Ora le isole tremeranno il giorno della tua caduta,
le isole del mare saranno spaventate per la tua fine”.
19 Infatti cosí parla Dio, il Signore:
Quando farò di te una città desolata
come le città che non hanno piú abitanti,
quando farò salire su di te l'abisso
e le grandi acque ti copriranno,
20 allora ti tirerò giú, con quelli che scendono nella fossa,
fra il popolo d'un tempo;
ti farò abitare nelle profondità della terra,
nelle solitudini eterne,
con quelli che scendono nella fossa,
perché tu non sia piú abitata;
invece rimetterò lo splendore sulla terra dei viventi.
21 Io ti renderò oggetto di spavento, e piú non sarai;
ti si cercherà ma non ti si troverà mai piú,
dice Dio, il Signore».
Footnotes
- Ezechiele 26:6 Le sue figlie, cioè le città sotto la sua giurisdizione; cfr. 16:53-55.
Ezekiel 26
GOD’S WORD Translation
Judgment on Tyre
26 On the first day of the month in the eleventh year, the Lord spoke his word to me. He said, 2 “Son of man, Tyre said this about Jerusalem: ‘The city that was the gateway for the nations is destroyed, and its doors are swung open to me. I’ll get rich now that it’s ruined.’ 3 So this is what the Almighty Lord says: I am against you, Tyre. I will bring many nations against you as the waves on the sea rise. 4 They will destroy the walls of Tyre and tear down its towers. Then I will sweep up the dust and turn Tyre into a bare rock. 5 It will become a place by the sea where people spread their fishing nets. I have spoken, declares the Almighty Lord. It will become a prize for the nations. 6 The people in the villages and on the mainland will die in battle. Then they will know that I am the Lord.
7 “This is what the Almighty Lord says: From the north I’m going to bring King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon against you, Tyre. He is the greatest king. He will bring horses, chariots, war horses, many people, and many troops. 8 He will destroy the villages on your mainland. He will set up blockades, put up dirt ramps, and raise his shields against you. 9 He will direct his battering rams against your walls, and he will cut down your towers with his axes. 10 He will have so many horses that their dust will cover you. The noise from the war horses, wagon wheels, and chariots will shake your walls when he enters your gates. He will enter as people enter a conquered city. 11 With his horses’ hoofs he will trample all your streets. He will kill your people in battle, and your strong pillars will fall to the ground. 12 His troops will loot your riches and take your goods as prizes. They will destroy your walls and tear down your delightful homes. They will throw your stones, wood, and soil into the water.
13 “I will put a stop to your noisy songs, and the music from your harps will no longer be heard. 14 I will turn you into bare rock. You will become a place to spread fishing nets. You will never be rebuilt. I, the Lord, have spoken, declares the Almighty Lord.
15 “This is what the Almighty Lord says to Tyre: The people who live on the coast will shake with fear when they hear about your defeat. They will groan when your people are wounded and slaughtered. 16 Then the princes from the coast will come down from their thrones. They will remove their robes and take off their embroidered clothes. Dressed in terror, they will sit on the ground. They will tremble constantly and be shocked at you. 17 Then they will sing this funeral song for you:
Tyre, you famous city, you have been destroyed.
You have been shattered by the sea.
You and your people ruled the sea.
All your people terrified those who lived by the coast.
18 Your defeat will make the people who live by the coast tremble.
Your end will terrify the islands in the sea.
19 “This is what the Almighty Lord says: I will turn your city into ruins like cities that have no one living in them. I will bring the deep ocean over you, and the Mediterranean Sea will cover you. 20 I will bring you down with those who descend to the grave to join the people of long ago. I will make you live below the earth among the ancient ruins with those who go down to the grave. You will never return or take your place in the land of the living. 21 I will turn you into a terror, and you will no longer exist. People will look for you, but they will never see you again,” declares the Almighty Lord.
Ezekiel 26
King James Version
26 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, because that Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken that was the gates of the people: she is turned unto me: I shall be replenished, now she is laid waste:
3 Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, O Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth his waves to come up.
4 And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock.
5 It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God: and it shall become a spoil to the nations.
6 And her daughters which are in the field shall be slain by the sword; and they shall know that I am the Lord.
7 For thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will bring upon Tyrus Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, a king of kings, from the north, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and companies, and much people.
8 He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field: and he shall make a fort against thee, and cast a mount against thee, and lift up the buckler against thee.
9 And he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers.
10 By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover thee: thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheels, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into thy gates, as men enter into a city wherein is made a breach.
11 With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all thy streets: he shall slay thy people by the sword, and thy strong garrisons shall go down to the ground.
12 And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water.
13 And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy harps shall be no more heard.
14 And I will make thee like the top of a rock: thou shalt be a place to spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no more: for I the Lord have spoken it, saith the Lord God.
15 Thus saith the Lord God to Tyrus; Shall not the isles shake at the sound of thy fall, when the wounded cry, when the slaughter is made in the midst of thee?
16 Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and lay away their robes, and put off their broidered garments: they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit upon the ground, and shall tremble at every moment, and be astonished at thee.
17 And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say to thee, How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited of seafaring men, the renowned city, which wast strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, which cause their terror to be on all that haunt it!
18 Now shall the isles tremble in the day of thy fall; yea, the isles that are in the sea shall be troubled at thy departure.
19 For thus saith the Lord God; When I shall make thee a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep upon thee, and great waters shall cover thee;
20 When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, with the people of old time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I shall set glory in the land of the living;
21 I will make thee a terror, and thou shalt be no more: though thou be sought for, yet shalt thou never be found again, saith the Lord God.
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