The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Ezekiel 26
1 In the eleventh year, in the first of the
month, Yahweh’s word came tome, saying,
2 “Son of man, because Tyre has said
against Jerusalem, ‘Aha! She is broken!
She who was the gateway of the peoples
has been returned to me. I will be replenished,
now that she is laid waste;’
3 therefore the Lord Yahweh says,
‘Behold,I am against you, Tyre, and will cause
many nations to come up against you, as
the sea causes its waves to come up.
4 They will destroy the walls of Tyre, and
break down her towers. I will also scrape
her dust from her, and make her a bare
rock.
5 She will be a place for the spreading
of nets in the middle of the sea; for I have
spoken it,’ says the Lord Yahweh. ‘She will
become plunder for the nations.
6 Her daughters who are in the field will
be slain with the sword. Then they will
know that I am Yahweh.’
7 “For the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I
will bring on Tyre Nebuchadnezzar king
of Babylon, king of kings, from the north,
with horses, with chariots, with horsemen,
and an army with many people.
8 He will kill your daughters in the field
with the sword. He will make forts against
you, cast up a mound against you, and
raise up the buckler against you.
9 He will set his battering engines against
your walls, and with his axes he will break
down your towers.
10 By reason of the abundance of his
horses, their dust will cover you. Your
walls will shake at the noise of the horsemen,
of the wagons, and of the chariots,
when he enters into your gates, as men
enter into a city which is broken open.
11 He will tread down all your streets
with the hoofs of his horses. He will kill
your people with the sword. The pillars of
your strength will go down to the ground.
12 They will make a plunder of your
riches and make a prey of your merchandise.
They will break down your walls and
destroy your pleasant houses. They will
lay your stones, your timber, and your dust
in the middle of the waters.
13 I will cause the noise of your songs to
cease. The sound of your harps won’t be
heard any more.
14 I will make you a bare rock. You will
be a place for the spreading of nets. You
will be built no more; for I Yahweh have
spoken it,’ says the Lord Yahweh.
15 “The Lord Yahweh says to Tyre: ‘Won’t
the islands shake at the sound of your
fall, when the wounded groan, when the
slaughter is made within you?
16 Then all the princes of the sea will
come down from their thrones, and lay
aside their robes, and strip off their
embroidered garments. They will clothe
themselves with trembling. They will
sit on the ground, and will tremble
every moment, and be astonished at you.
17 They will take up a lamentation over
you, and tell you, How you are destroyed,
who were inhabited by seafaring men,
the renowned city, who was strong in the sea,
she and her inhabitants, who caused
their terror to be on all who lived there!”
18 Now the islands will tremble in the day
of your fall. Yes, the islands that are in
the sea will be dismayed at your departure.
19 “For the Lord Yahweh says: ‘When I
make you a desolate city, like the cities
that are not inhabited, when I bring up the
deep on you, and the great waters cover
you,
20 then I will bring you down with those
who descend into the pit, to the people
of old time, and will make you dwell in
the lower parts of the earth, in the places
that are desolate of old, with those who go
down to the pit, that you be not inhabited;
and I will set glory in the land of the living.
21 I will make you a terror, and you will
no more have any being. Though you are
sought for, yet you will never be found
again,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”