Ezekiel 26:4
Good News Translation
They will destroy your city walls and tear down your towers. Then I will sweep away all the dust and leave only a bare rock.

New Revised Standard Version
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.

Contemporary English Version
They will tear down your city walls and defense towers. I will sweep away the ruins until all that's left of you is a bare rock,

New American Bible
They will destroy the walls of Tyre and tear down its towers; I will scrape off its debris and leave it a bare rock.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they shall break down the walls of Tyre, and destroy the towers thereof: and I will scrape her dust from her, and make her like a smooth rock.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And they shall break down the walls of Tyre, and destroy the towers thereof: and I will scrape her dust from her, and make her like a smooth rock.

destroy

Ezekiel 26:9 And he shall set engines of war and battering rams against thy walls, and shall destroy thy towers with his arms.

Isaiah 23:11 He stretched out his hand over the sea, he troubled kingdoms: the Lord hath given a charge against Chanaan, to destroy the strong ones thereof.

Jeremiah 5:10 Scale the walls thereof, and throw them down, but do not utterly destroy: take away the branches thereof, because they are not the Lord's.

Amos 1:10 And I will send a fire upon the wall of Tyre, and it shall devour the houses thereof.

Zechariah 9:3 And Tyre hath built herself a strong hold, and heaped together silver as earth, and gold as the mire of the streets.

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Ezekiel 26:12 They shall waste thy riches, they shall make a spoil of thy merchandise: and they shall destroy thy walls, and pull down thy fine houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber, and thy dust in the midst of the waters.

Leviticus 14:41-45 And that the house be scraped on the inside round about, and the dust of the scrapings be scattered without the city into an unclean place: . . .

make

Ezekiel 24:7,8 For her blood is in the midst of her, she hath shed it upon the smooth rock: she hath not shed it upon the ground, that it might be covered with dust. . . .

Context
A Prophecy Against Tyre
3Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold I come against thee, O Tyre, and I will cause many nations to come up to thee, as the waves of the sea rise up. 4And they shall break down the walls of Tyre, and destroy the towers thereof: and I will scrape her dust from her, and make her like a smooth rock.5She shall be a drying place for nets in the midst of the sea, because I have spoken it, saith the Lord God: and she shall be a spoil to the nations.…
Cross References
Leviticus 14:41
And that the house be scraped on the inside round about, and the dust of the scrapings be scattered without the city into an unclean place:

Isaiah 23:11
He stretched out his hand over the sea, he troubled kingdoms: the Lord hath given a charge against Chanaan, to destroy the strong ones thereof.

Ezekiel 26:9
And he shall set engines of war and battering rams against thy walls, and shall destroy thy towers with his arms.

Amos 1:10
And I will send a fire upon the wall of Tyre, and it shall devour the houses thereof.

Ezekiel 26:3
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