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.

What are you to me, O Tyre and Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you paying me back for something? If you are paying me back, I will turn your deeds back upon your own heads swiftly and speedily.

Thus says the Lord: For three transgressions of Tyre, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they delivered entire communities over to Edom and did not remember the covenant of kinship.

So I will send a fire on the wall of Tyre, and it shall devour its strongholds.

Hamath also, which borders on it, Tyre and Sidon, though they are very wise.

Tyre has built itself a rampart and heaped up silver like dust and gold like the dirt of the streets.

“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the deeds of power done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

But I tell you, on the day of judgment it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon than for you.

The Canaanite Woman’s Faith

Jesus left that place and went away to the district of Tyre and Sidon.

hearing all that he was doing, they came to him in great numbers from Judea, Jerusalem, Idumea, beyond the Jordan, and the region around Tyre and Sidon.

The Syrophoenician Woman’s Faith

From there he set out and went away to the region of Tyre. He entered a house and did not want anyone to know he was there. Yet he could not escape notice,

Jesus Cures a Deaf Man

Then he returned from the region of Tyre and went by way of Sidon toward the Sea of Galilee, in the region of the Decapolis.

Jesus Teaches and Heals

He came down with them and stood on a level place with a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea, Jerusalem, and the coast of Tyre and Sidon.

Woes to Unrepentant Cities

“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the deeds of power done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.