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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1In the eleventh month of the twelfth year, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying, |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2“Son of man, because Tyre has said of Jerusalem, ‘Aha! The gate to the nations is broken; it has swung open to me; now that she lies in ruins I will be filled,’ |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, O Tyre, I am against you, and I will raise up many nations against you, as the sea brings up its waves. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4They will destroy the walls of Tyre and demolish her towers. I will scrape the soil from her and make her a bare rock. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5She will become a place to spread nets in the sea, for I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD. She will become plunder for the nations, |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6and the villages on her mainland will be slain by the sword. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’ |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I will bring against Tyre from the north Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, with horses and chariots, with cavalry and a great company of troops. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8He will slaughter the villages of your mainland with the sword; he will set up siege works against you, build a ramp to your walls, and raise his shields against you. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9He will direct the blows of his battering rams against your walls and tear down your towers with his axes. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10His multitude of horses will cover you in their dust. When he enters your gates as an army entering a breached city, your walls will shake from the noise of cavalry, wagons, and chariots. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11The hooves of his horses will trample all your streets. He will slaughter your people with the sword, and your mighty pillars will fall to the ground. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12They will plunder your wealth and pillage your merchandise. They will demolish your walls, tear down your beautiful homes, and throw your stones and timber and soil into the water. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13So I will silence the sound of your songs, and the music of your lyres will no longer be heard. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14I will make you a bare rock, and you will become a place to spread the fishing nets. You will never be rebuilt, for I, the LORD, have spoken, declares the Lord GOD.’ |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15This is what the Lord GOD says to Tyre: ‘Will not the coastlands quake at the sound of your downfall, when the wounded groan at the slaughter in your midst? |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16All the princes of the sea will descend from their thrones, remove their robes, and strip off their embroidered garments. Clothed with terror, they will sit on the ground, trembling every moment, appalled over you. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Then they will lament for you, saying, “How you have perished, O city of renown inhabited by seafaring men—she who was powerful on the sea, along with her people, who imposed terror on all peoples! |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Now the coastlands tremble on the day of your downfall; the islands in the sea are dismayed by your demise.” ’ |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘When I make you a desolate city like other deserted cities, and when I raise up the deep against you so that the mighty waters cover you, |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20then I will bring you down with those who descend to the Pit, to the people of antiquity. I will make you dwell in the earth below like the ancient ruins, with those who descend to the Pit, so that you will no longer be inhabited or set in splendor in the land of the living. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21I will make you an object of horror, and you will be no more. You will be sought, but will never be found,’ declares the Lord GOD.” |
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