Zechariah 9:2

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²and on Hamath^(A) too, which borders on it,
and on Tyre^(B) and Sidon,^(C) though they are very skillful.

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Ezekiel 28:12

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¹²“Son of man, take up a lament^(A) concerning the king of Tyre and say to him: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says:

“‘You were the seal of perfection,
full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.^(B)

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Jeremiah 49:23

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A Message About Damascus

²³Concerning Damascus:^(A)

“Hamath^(B) and Arpad^(C) are dismayed,
for they have heard bad news.
They are disheartened,
troubled like^[a] the restless sea.^(D)

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Jeremiah 49:23 Hebrew on or by

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Ezekiel 28:2-5

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²“Son of man^(A), say to the ruler of Tyre, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says:

“‘In the pride of your heart
    you say, “I am a god;
I sit on the throne^(B) of a god
    in the heart of the seas.”^(C)
But you are a mere mortal and not a god,
    though you think you are as wise as a god.^(D)
³Are you wiser than Daniel^[a]?^(E)
    Is no secret hidden from you?
⁴By your wisdom and understanding
    you have gained wealth for yourself
and amassed gold and silver
    in your treasuries.^(F)
⁵By your great skill in trading^(G)
    you have increased your wealth,^(H)
and because of your wealth
    your heart has grown proud.^(I)

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Ezekiel 28:3 Or Danel, a man of renown in ancient literature

Obadiah 20

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²⁰This company of Israelite exiles who are in Canaan
will possess the land as far as Zarephath;^(A)
the exiles from Jerusalem who are in Sepharad
will possess the towns of the Negev.^(B)

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Amos 6:14

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¹⁴For the Lord God Almighty declares,
“I will stir up a nation^(A) against you, Israel,
that will oppress you all the way
from Lebo Hamath^(B) to the valley of the Arabah.^(C)”

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Amos 1:9-10

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⁹This is what the Lord says:

“For three sins of Tyre,^(A)
    even for four, I will not relent.^(B)
Because she sold whole communities of captives to Edom,
    disregarding a treaty of brotherhood,^(C)
¹⁰I will send fire on the walls of Tyre
    that will consume her fortresses.^(D)”

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Joel 3:4-8

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⁴“Now what have you against me, Tyre and Sidon^(A) and all you regions of Philistia?^(B) Are you repaying me for something I have done? If you are paying me back, I will swiftly and speedily return on your own heads what you have done.^(C) ⁵For you took my silver and my gold and carried off my finest treasures to your temples.^[a]^(D) ⁶You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks,^(E) that you might send them far from their homeland.

⁷“See, I am going to rouse them out of the places to which you sold them,^(F) and I will return^(G) on your own heads what you have done. ⁸I will sell your sons^(H) and daughters to the people of Judah,^(I) and they will sell them to the Sabeans,^(J) a nation far away.” The Lord has spoken.^(K)

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Joel 3:5 Or palaces

Ezekiel 28:21-26

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²¹“Son of man, set your face against^(A) Sidon;^(B) prophesy against her ²²and say: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says:

“‘I am against you, Sidon,
    and among you I will display my glory.^(C)
You will know that I am the Lord,
    when I inflict punishment^(D) on you
    and within you am proved to be holy.^(E)
²³I will send a plague upon you
    and make blood flow in your streets.
The slain will fall within you,
    with the sword against you on every side.
Then you will know that I am the Lord.^(F)

²⁴“‘No longer will the people of Israel have malicious neighbors who are painful briers and sharp thorns.^(G) Then they will know that I am the Sovereign Lord.

²⁵“‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: When I gather^(H) the people of Israel from the nations where they have been scattered,^(I) I will be proved holy^(J) through them in the sight of the nations. Then they will live in their own land, which I gave to my servant Jacob.^(K) ²⁶They will live there in safety^(L) and will build houses and plant^(M) vineyards; they will live in safety when I inflict punishment^(N) on all their neighbors who maligned them. Then they will know that I am the Lord their God.^(O)’”

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Ezekiel 26

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A Prophecy Against Tyre

26 In the eleventh month of the twelfth^[a] year, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:^(A) ²“Son of man, because Tyre^(B) has said of Jerusalem, ‘Aha!^(C) The gate to the nations is broken, and its doors have swung open to me; now that she lies in ruins I will prosper,’ ³therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am against you, Tyre, and I will bring many nations against you, like the sea^(D) casting up its waves. ⁴They will destroy^(E) the walls of Tyre^(F) and pull down her towers; I will scrape away her rubble and make her a bare rock. ⁵Out in the sea^(G) she will become a place to spread fishnets,^(H) for I have spoken, declares the Sovereign Lord. She will become plunder^(I) for the nations,^(J) ⁶and her settlements on the mainland will be ravaged by the sword. Then they will know that I am the Lord.

⁷“For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: From the north I am going to bring against Tyre Nebuchadnezzar^[b]^(K) king of Babylon, king of kings,^(L) with horses and chariots,^(M) with horsemen and a great army. ⁸He will ravage your settlements on the mainland with the sword; he will set up siege works^(N) against you, build a ramp^(O) up to your walls and raise his shields against you. ⁹He will direct the blows of his battering rams against your walls and demolish your towers with his weapons.^(P) ¹⁰His horses will be so many that they will cover you with dust. Your walls will tremble at the noise of the warhorses, wagons and chariots^(Q) when he enters your gates as men enter a city whose walls have been broken through. ¹¹The hooves^(R) of his horses will trample all your streets; he will kill your people with the sword, and your strong pillars^(S) will fall to the ground.^(T) ¹²They will plunder your wealth and loot your merchandise; they will break down your walls and demolish your fine houses and throw your stones, timber and rubble into the sea.^(U) ¹³I will put an end^(V) to your noisy songs,^(W) and the music of your harps^(X) will be heard no more.^(Y) ¹⁴I will make you a bare rock, and you will become a place to spread fishnets. You will never be rebuilt,^(Z) for I the Lord have spoken, declares the Sovereign Lord.

¹⁵“This is what the Sovereign Lord says to Tyre: Will not the coastlands^(AA) tremble^(AB) at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan^(AC) and the slaughter takes place in you? ¹⁶Then all the princes of the coast will step down from their thrones and lay aside their robes and take off their embroidered^(AD) garments. Clothed^(AE) with terror, they will sit on the ground,^(AF) trembling^(AG) every moment, appalled^(AH) at you. ¹⁷Then they will take up a lament^(AI) concerning you and say to you:

“‘How you are destroyed, city of renown,
    peopled by men of the sea!
You were a power on the seas,
    you and your citizens;
you put your terror
    on all who lived there.^(AJ)
¹⁸Now the coastlands tremble^(AK)
    on the day of your fall;
the islands in the sea
    are terrified at your collapse.’^(AL)

¹⁹“This is what the Sovereign Lord says: When I make you a desolate city, like cities no longer inhabited, and when I bring the ocean depths^(AM) over you and its vast waters cover you,^(AN) ²⁰then I will bring you down with those who go down to the pit,^(AO) to the people of long ago. I will make you dwell in the earth below, as in ancient ruins, with those who go down to the pit, and you will not return or take your place^[c] in the land of the living.^(AP) ²¹I will bring you to a horrible end and you will be no more.^(AQ) You will be sought, but you will never again be found, declares the Sovereign Lord.”^(AR)

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Footnotes

Ezekiel 26:1 Probable reading of the original Hebrew text; Masoretic Text does not have month of the twelfth.
Ezekiel 26:7 Hebrew Nebuchadrezzar, of which Nebuchadnezzar is a variant; here and often in Ezekiel and Jeremiah
Ezekiel 26:20 Septuagint; Hebrew return, and I will give glory

Isaiah 23

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A Prophecy Against Tyre

23 A prophecy against Tyre:^(A)

Wail,^(B) you ships^(C) of Tarshish!^(D)
    For Tyre is destroyed^(E)
    and left without house or harbor.
From the land of Cyprus
    word has come to them.

²Be silent,^(F) you people of the island
    and you merchants^(G) of Sidon,^(H)
    whom the seafarers have enriched.
³On the great waters
    came the grain of the Shihor;^(I)
the harvest of the Nile^[a]^(J) was the revenue of Tyre,^(K)
    and she became the marketplace of the nations.

⁴Be ashamed, Sidon,^(L) and you fortress of the sea,
    for the sea has spoken:
“I have neither been in labor nor given birth;^(M)
    I have neither reared sons nor brought up daughters.”
⁵When word comes to Egypt,
    they will be in anguish^(N) at the report from Tyre.^(O)

⁶Cross over to Tarshish;^(P)
    wail, you people of the island.
⁷Is this your city of revelry,^(Q)
    the old, old city,
whose feet have taken her
    to settle in far-off lands?
⁸Who planned this against Tyre,
    the bestower of crowns,
whose merchants^(R) are princes,
    whose traders^(S) are renowned in the earth?
⁹The Lord Almighty planned^(T) it,
    to bring down^(U) her pride in all her splendor
    and to humble^(V) all who are renowned^(W) on the earth.

¹⁰Till^[b] your land as they do along the Nile,
    Daughter Tarshish,
    for you no longer have a harbor.
¹¹The Lord has stretched out his hand^(X) over the sea
    and made its kingdoms tremble.^(Y)
He has given an order concerning Phoenicia
    that her fortresses be destroyed.^(Z)
¹²He said, “No more of your reveling,^(AA)
    Virgin Daughter^(AB) Sidon, now crushed!

“Up, cross over to Cyprus;^(AC)
    even there you will find no rest.”
¹³Look at the land of the Babylonians,^[c]^(AD)
    this people that is now of no account!
The Assyrians^(AE) have made it
    a place for desert creatures;^(AF)
they raised up their siege towers,^(AG)
    they stripped its fortresses bare
    and turned it into a ruin.^(AH)

¹⁴Wail, you ships^(AI) of Tarshish;^(AJ)
your fortress is destroyed!^(AK)

¹⁵At that time Tyre^(AL) will be forgotten for seventy years,^(AM) the span of a king’s life. But at the end of these seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the prostitute:

¹⁶“Take up a harp, walk through the city,
you forgotten prostitute;^(AN)
play the harp well, sing many a song,
so that you will be remembered.”

¹⁷At the end of seventy years,^(AO) the Lord will deal with Tyre. She will return to her lucrative prostitution^(AP) and will ply her trade with all the kingdoms on the face of the earth.^(AQ) ¹⁸Yet her profit and her earnings will be set apart for the Lord;^(AR) they will not be stored up or hoarded. Her profits will go to those who live before the Lord,^(AS) for abundant food and fine clothes.^(AT)

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Isaiah 23:3 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls Sidon, / who cross over the sea; / your envoys ³are on the great waters. / The grain of the Shihor, / the harvest of the Nile,
Isaiah 23:10 Dead Sea Scrolls and some Septuagint manuscripts; Masoretic Text Go through
Isaiah 23:13 Or Chaldeans

2 Kings 25:21

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²¹There at Riblah,^(A) in the land of Hamath, the king had them executed.^(B)

So Judah went into captivity,^(C) away from her land.^(D)

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2 Kings 23:33

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³³Pharaoh Necho put him in chains at Riblah^(A) in the land of Hamath^(B) so that he might not reign in Jerusalem, and he imposed on Judah a levy of a hundred talents^[a] of silver and a talent^[b] of gold.

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