Ezekiel 26:1-9 ▼

1 And it came to pass in the eleventh month of the twelfth year, on the first of the month, that came the word of YHWH to me, saying:

2 “Son of man, because that Tyre has said concerning Jerusalem, ‘Aha, she is broken, the gate of the peoples—she is turned over to me; I will be filled; she is destroyed,’

3 therefore thus says the Lord YHWH: ‘Behold, I am against you, O Tyre, and I will bring up against you many nations, as the sea brings up its waves.

4 And they will destroy the walls of Tyre, and they will throw down her towers; and I will scrape her dust from her, and will give her as a clear place of a rock.

5 She will be a spreading place of nets in the midst of the sea—for I have spoken, says the Lord YHWH—and she will become as plunder for the nations,

6 and her daughters who are on her mainland will be slain by the sword, and they will know that I am YHWH.’

7 For thus says the Lord YHWH: ‘Behold, I am bringing against Tyre Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from the north, the king of kings, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, even an assembly, and a numerous people.

8 Your daughters on the mainland he will slay with the sword, and he will set against you a siege mound, and he will build against you a wall and raise against you a buckler;

9 and the blow of his battering ram he will place against your walls, and your towers he will tear down with his swords.