Proclamation against Tyre

In the twelfth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:

Mortal, because Tyre said concerning Jerusalem, “Aha, broken is the gateway of the peoples; it has swung open to me; I shall be replenished, now that it is wasted,”

therefore, thus says the Lord God: See, I am against you, O Tyre! I will hurl many nations against you, as the sea hurls its waves.

They shall destroy the walls of Tyre and break down its towers. I will scrape its soil from it and make it a bare rock.

For thus says the Lord God: I will bring against Tyre from the north King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon, king of kings, together with horses, chariots, cavalry, and a great and powerful army.

Thus says the Lord God to Tyre: Shall not the coastlands shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, when slaughter goes on within you?

Lamentation over Tyre

The word of the Lord came to me:

Now you, mortal, raise a lamentation over Tyre,

and say to Tyre, which sits at the entrance to the sea, merchant of the peoples on many coastlands: Thus says the Lord God: O Tyre, you have said, “I am perfect in beauty.”

In their wailing they raise a lamentation for you and lament over you: “Who was ever destroyed like Tyre in the midst of the sea?

Proclamation against the King of Tyre

The word of the Lord came to me:

Mortal, say to the prince of Tyre: Thus says the Lord God: Because your heart is proud and you have said, “I am a god; I sit in the seat of the gods, in the heart of the seas,” yet you are but a mortal and no god, though you compare your mind with the mind of a god.

Lamentation over the King of Tyre

Moreover the word of the Lord came to me:

Mortal, raise a lamentation over the king of Tyre, and say to him: Thus says the Lord God: You were the signet of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.

Mortal, King Nebuchadrezzar 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 expended against it.