Prophesy Against Tyre

26 Now it happened in the eleventh year, on the first of the month, that the word of Yahweh came to me saying, ² “Son of man, because ^(A)Tyre has said concerning Jerusalem, ‘Aha, the ^(B)gateway of the peoples is broken; it has ^[a](C)opened to me. I shall be filled, now that she is laid waste,’ ³ therefore thus says Lord Yahweh, ‘Behold, I am against you, O Tyre, and I will bring up ^(D)many nations against you, as the ^(E)sea brings up its waves. ⁴ They will ^(F)make the walls of Tyre a ruin and pull down her towers; and I will scrape her dust from her and make her a bare rock. ⁵ She will be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea, for I have spoken,’ declares Lord Yahweh, ‘and she will become ^(G)plunder for the nations. ⁶ Also her ^(H)daughters who are ^[b]on the mainland will be killed by the sword, and they will know that I am Yahweh.’”

⁷ For thus says Lord Yahweh, “Behold, I will bring upon Tyre from the north Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, ^(I)king of kings, with horses, ^(J)chariots, horsemen, and an assembly, a great number of people. ⁸ He will kill your daughters ^[c]on the mainland with the sword; and he will make ^(K)siege walls against you, cast up a ^(L)ramp against you, and raise up a large shield against you. ⁹ The blow of his battering rams he will direct against your walls, and with his swords he will tear down your towers. ¹⁰ Because of the abundance of his ^(M)horses, the fine dust raised by them will cover you; your walls will ^(N)shake at the noise of horsemen and ^[d]wagons and chariots when he ^(O)enters your gates as men enter a city that is breached. ¹¹ With the hoofs of his ^(P)horses he will trample all your streets. He will kill your people with the sword; and your strong pillars will ^(Q)come down to the ground. ¹² Also they will make a spoil of your wealth and a plunder of your ^(R)merchandise, and ^(S)pull down your walls and tear down your ^(T)desirable houses, and ^[e]throw your stones and your timbers and your debris ^(U)into the water. ¹³ So I will cause the tumult of your ^(V)songs to cease, and the sound of your ^(W)harps will be heard no more. ¹⁴ I will make you a bare rock; you will be a place for the spreading of nets. You will be ^(X)built no more, for I ^(Y)Yahweh have spoken,” declares Lord Yahweh.

¹⁵ Thus says Lord Yahweh to Tyre, “Shall not the ^(Z)coastlands ^(AA)shake at the sound of your downfall when the wounded groan, when the killing occurs in your midst? ¹⁶ Then all the princes of the sea will ^(AB)go down from their thrones, remove their robes, and strip off their embroidered garments. They will ^(AC)clothe themselves with ^[f]trembling; they will sit on the ground, ^(AD)tremble every moment, and be appalled at you. ¹⁷ They will take up a ^(AE)lamentation over you and say to you,

¹⁹ For thus says Lord Yahweh, “When I make you a city laid waste, like the cities which are not inhabited, when I ^(AJ)bring up the deep over you and the great waters cover you, ²⁰ then I will bring you down with those who ^(AK)go down to the pit, to the people of old, and I will make you inhabit the ^(AL)lower parts of the earth, like the ancient waste places, with those who go down to the pit, so that you will not ^[i]be inhabited; but I will set ^(AM)glory in the land of the living. ²¹ I will ^[j]bring ^(AN)terrors on you, and you will be no more; though you will be sought, ^(AO)you will never be found again,” declares Lord Yahweh.