Ezekiel 26 — Legacy Standard Bible

Prophesy Against Tyre

26Now it happened in the eleventh year, on the first of the month, that the word of Yahweh came to me saying, ²“Son of man, because ^aTyre has said concerning Jerusalem, ‘Aha, the ^bgateway of the peoples is broken; it has ¹^,^copened to me. I shall be filled, now that she is laid waste,’ ³therefore thus says Lord Yahweh, ‘Behold, I am against you, O Tyre, and I will bring up ^amany nations against you, as the ^bsea brings up its waves. ⁴‘They will ^amake the walls of Tyre a ruin and pull down her towers; and I will scrape her dust from her and make her a bare rock. ⁵‘She will be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea, for I have spoken,’ declares Lord Yahweh, ‘and she will become ^aplunder for the nations. ⁶‘Also her ^adaughters who are ¹on the mainland will be killed by the sword, and they will know that I am Yahweh.’”

⁷For thus says Lord Yahweh, “Behold, I will bring upon Tyre from the north Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, ^aking of kings, with horses, ^bchariots, horsemen, and an assembly, a great number of people. ⁸“He will kill your daughters ¹on the mainland with the sword; and he will make ^asiege walls against you, cast up a ^bramp against you, and raise up a large shield against you. ⁹“The blow of his battering rams he will direct against your walls, and with his swords he will tear down your towers. ¹⁰“Because of the abundance of his ^ahorses, the fine dust raised by them will cover you; your walls will ^bshake at the noise of horsemen and ¹wagons and chariots when he ^centers your gates as men enter a city that is breached. ¹¹“With the hoofs of his ^ahorses he will trample all your streets. He will kill your people with the sword; and your strong pillars will ^bcome down to the ground. ¹²“Also they will make a spoil of your wealth and a plunder of your ^amerchandise, and ^bpull down your walls and tear down your ^cdesirable houses, and ¹throw your stones and your timbers and your debris ^dinto the water. ¹³“So I will cause the tumult of your ^asongs to cease, and the sound of your ^bharps will be heard no more. ¹⁴“I will make you a bare rock; you will be a place for the spreading of nets. You will be ^abuilt no more, for I ^bYahweh have spoken,” declares Lord Yahweh.

¹⁵Thus says Lord Yahweh to Tyre, “Shall not the ^acoastlands ^bshake at the sound of your downfall when the wounded groan, when the killing occurs in your midst? ¹⁶“Then all the princes of the sea will ^ago down from their thrones, remove their robes, and strip off their embroidered garments. They will ^bclothe themselves with ¹trembling; they will sit on the ground, ^ctremble every moment, and be appalled at you. ¹⁷“They will take up a ^alamentation over you and say to you, ‘^bHow you have perished, O inhabited one,From the seas, O city that was praised,Which was ^cstrong on the sea,She and her inhabitants,Who ¹imposed ²her terrorOn all her inhabitants!

¹⁸‘Now the ^acoastlands will trembleOn the day of your downfall;Yes, the coastlands which are by the seaWill be dismayed at your ^bdeparture.’”

¹⁹For thus says Lord Yahweh, “When I make you a city laid waste, like the cities which are not inhabited, when I ^abring up the deep over you and the great waters cover you, ²⁰then I will bring you down with those who ^ago down to the pit, to the people of old, and I will make you inhabit the ^blower parts of the earth, like the ancient waste places, with those who go down to the pit, so that you will not ¹be inhabited; but I will set ^cglory in the land of the living. ²¹“I will ¹bring ^aterrors on you, and you will be no more; though you will be sought, ^byou will never be found again,” declares Lord Yahweh.