¹³ Behold the land of ^(A)the Chaldeans! This is the people that was not;^[a] Assyria destined it for wild beasts. They erected ^(B)their siege towers, they stripped her palaces bare, they made her a ruin.

^4 (A)Then he went out from the land of the Chaldeans and lived in Haran. And ^(B)after his father died, ^(C)God removed him from there into this land in which you are now living.

³⁰ and the king answered and said, ^(A)“Is not this great Babylon, which I have built by ^(B)my mighty power as a royal residence and for ^(C)the glory of my majesty?”

^18 (A)“Son of man, ^(B)Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made his army labor hard against Tyre. Every head was made bald, and every shoulder was rubbed bare, yet neither he nor his army got anything from Tyre to pay for the labor that he had performed against her.

⁷ “For thus says the Lord God: ^(A)Behold, I will bring against Tyre ^(B)from the north Nebuchadnezzar^[a] king of Babylon, ^(C)king of kings, with horses and chariots, and with horsemen and a host of many soldiers. ⁸ He will kill with the sword ^(D)your daughters on the mainland. ^(E)He will set up a siege wall against you and throw up a mound against you, and raise ^(F)a roof of shields against you. ^9 (G)He will direct the shock of his battering rams against your walls, and with his axes he will break down your towers. ¹⁰ His 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. ¹¹ With 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. ¹² They will plunder ^(H)your riches and loot ^(I)your merchandise. They will break down your walls and destroy your pleasant houses. Your stones and timber and ^(J)soil they will cast into the midst of the waters. ^13 (K)And I will stop the music of your songs, and ^(L)the sound of your lyres shall be heard no more. ^14 (M)I will make you a bare rock. ^(N)You shall be a place for the spreading of nets. You shall never be rebuilt, ^(O)for I am the Lord; I have spoken, declares the Lord God.

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

¹⁹ “For thus says the Lord God: When I make you a city laid waste, like the cities that are not inhabited, ^(Z)when I bring up the deep over you, and the great waters cover you, ²⁰ then ^(AA)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, ^(AB)with those who go down to the pit, so that you will not be inhabited; but I will set beauty ^(AC)in the land of the living. ²¹ I will bring you ^(AD)to a dreadful end, and you shall be no more. ^(AE)Though you be sought for, you will never be found again, declares the Lord God.”

Judgment on Arrogant Assyria