Ezekiel 26:1-27:11

English Standard Version

Prophecy Against Tyre

26 ^(A)In the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me: ²^(B)“Son of man, because ^(C)Tyre said concerning Jerusalem, ^(D)‘Aha, the gate of the peoples is broken; it has swung open to me. I shall be replenished, now that she is laid waste,’ ³therefore thus says the Lord God: ^(E)Behold, I am against you, O Tyre, and will bring up ^(F)many nations against you, ^(G)as the sea brings up its waves. ⁴They shall destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers, and I will scrape her soil from her and ^(H)make her a bare rock. ⁵She ^(I)shall be in the midst of the sea a place for the spreading of nets, ^(J)for I have spoken, declares the Lord God. And she shall become plunder for the nations, ⁶and her daughters on the mainland shall be killed by the sword. ^(K)Then they will know that I am the Lord.

⁷“For thus says the Lord God: ^(L)Behold, I will bring against Tyre ^(M)from the north Nebuchadnezzar^[a] king of Babylon, ^(N)king of kings, with horses and chariots, and with horsemen and a host of many soldiers. ⁸He will kill with the sword ^(O)your daughters on the mainland. ^(P)He will set up a siege wall against you and throw up a mound against you, and raise ^(Q)a roof of shields against you. ⁹^(R)He will direct the shock of his battering rams against your walls, and with his axes he will break down your towers. ¹⁰His horses will be so many that their dust will cover you. Your walls will shake at the noise of the horsemen and wagons and chariots, when he enters your gates as men enter a city that has been breached. ¹¹With the hoofs of his horses he will trample all your streets. He will kill your people with the sword, and your mighty pillars will fall to the ground. ¹²They will plunder ^(S)your riches and loot ^(T)your merchandise. They will break down your walls and destroy your pleasant houses. Your stones and timber and ^(U)soil they will cast into the midst of the waters. ¹³^(V)And I will stop the music of your songs, and ^(W)the sound of your lyres shall be heard no more. ¹⁴^(X)I will make you a bare rock. ^(Y)You shall be a place for the spreading of nets. You shall never be rebuilt, ^(Z)for I am the Lord; I have spoken, declares the Lord God.

¹⁵“Thus says the Lord God to Tyre: Will not ^(AA)the coastlands shake at the sound of your fall, ^(AB)when the wounded groan, when slaughter is made in your midst? ¹⁶Then all ^(AC)the princes of the sea will step down from their thrones and ^(AD)remove their robes and strip off their embroidered garments. They will clothe themselves with trembling; ^(AE)they will sit on the ground and ^(AF)tremble every moment and ^(AG)be appalled at you. ¹⁷And they will ^(AH)raise a lamentation over you and say to you,

“‘How you have perished,
    you who were inhabited from the seas,
O city renowned,
    ^(AI)who was mighty on the sea;
she and her inhabitants ^(AJ)imposed their terror
    on all her inhabitants!
¹⁸Now the coastlands tremble
    on the day of your fall,
and the coastlands that are on the sea
    are dismayed at your passing.’

¹⁹“For thus says the Lord God: When I make you a city laid waste, like the cities that are not inhabited, ^(AK)when I bring up the deep over you, and the great waters cover you, ²⁰then ^(AL)I will make you go down with those who go down to the pit, to the people of old, and I will make you to dwell in the world below, among ruins from of old, ^(AM)with those who go down to the pit, so that you will not be inhabited; but I will set beauty ^(AN)in the land of the living. ²¹I will bring you ^(AO)to a dreadful end, and you shall be no more. ^(AP)Though you be sought for, you will never be found again, declares the Lord God.”

A Lament for Tyre

27 The word of the Lord came to me: ²“Now you, ^(AQ)son of man, ^(AR)raise a lamentation over Tyre, ³and say to Tyre, who dwells at ^(AS)the entrances to the sea, ^(AT)merchant of the peoples to many coastlands, thus says the Lord God:

“O Tyre, you have said,
    ‘I am ^(AU)perfect in beauty.’
⁴Your borders are ^(AV)in the heart of the seas;
    your builders made perfect your beauty.
⁵They made all your planks
    of fir trees from ^(AW)Senir;
they took ^(AX)a cedar from Lebanon
    to make a mast for you.
⁶Of ^(AY)oaks of Bashan
    they made your oars;
they made your deck of pines
    from ^(AZ)the coasts of Cyprus,
    inlaid with ivory.
⁷^(BA)Of fine embroidered linen from Egypt
    was your sail,
    serving as your banner;
blue and purple from ^(BB)the coasts of Elishah
    was your awning.
⁸The inhabitants of Sidon and ^(BC)Arvad
    were your rowers;
your skilled men, O Tyre, were in you;
    they were ^(BD)your pilots.
⁹The elders of ^(BE)Gebal and her skilled men were in you,
    ^(BF)caulking your seams;
all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in you
    to barter for your wares.

¹⁰^(BG)“Persia and ^(BH)Lud and ^(BI)Put were in your army as your men of war. ^(BJ)They hung the shield and helmet in you; they gave you splendor. ¹¹Men of ^(BK)Arvad and Helech were on your walls all around, and men of Gamad were in your towers. They hung their shields on your walls all around; they made ^(BL)perfect your beauty.