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19 “This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will make Tyre an uninhabited ruin, like many others. I will bury you beneath the terrible waves of enemy attack. Great seas will swallow you. 20 I will send you to the pit to join those who descended there long ago. Your city will lie in ruins, buried beneath the earth, like those in the pit who have entered the world of the dead. You will have no place of respect here in the land of the living. 21 I will bring you to a terrible end, and you will exist no more. You will be looked for, but you will never again be found. I, the Sovereign Lord, have spoken!”

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19 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: “When I make you a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited, when bringing up over you the deep, the great surging waters[a] will cover you. 20 And I will bring you down with those who are going down to the grave,[b] an ancient people,[c] and I will cause you to dwell in the world[d] of the depths, in the ruins from of old with those who are going down to the grave,[e] so that you will not be inhabited and have a place[f] in the land of the living. 21 Sudden terrors I will bring on you, and you shall no longer exist; and you will be sought, and you will not be found again forever,”[g] declares[h] the Lord Yahweh.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 26:19 Literally “the waters the many”
  2. Ezekiel 26:20 Or “pit”
  3. Ezekiel 26:20 Literally “a people of eternity/endless ages”
  4. Ezekiel 26:20 Or “land”
  5. Ezekiel 26:20 Or “pit”
  6. Ezekiel 26:20 Hebrew “and I will give beauty in the land of the living”
  7. Ezekiel 26:21 Literally “to eternity/endless ages”
  8. Ezekiel 26:21 Literally “declaration of”