Ezekiel 26

26 ¹In year eleven, on the first of the month, our Father's word came to me:

²Son of man, because Tyre said against Jerusalem, 'Aha! The gate of the peoples is broken, swung open to me. She lies in ruins; I will grow rich.' ³So the Sovereign Father says: Look, I am against you, Tyre. I will bring many nations up against you, like the sea bringing up its waves. ⁴They will destroy Tyre's walls and tear down her towers; I will scrape her soil away and leave her a bare rock. ⁵She will become a place to spread nets in the sea, for I have spoken, declares the Sovereign Father. She will become plunder for the nations, ⁶and her mainland villages killed by the sword. Then they will know that I am the Father.

⁷This is what the Sovereign Father says: Look, I am bringing Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, against Tyre from the north, with horses, chariots, horsemen, and a great army of many troops. ⁸He will kill your mainland villages with the sword, set a siege wall against you, raise a ramp against you, and lift shields against you. ⁹He will pound your walls with his battering rams and tear down your towers with his axes. ¹⁰His horses so many their dust covers you. Your walls shake at the noise of horsemen, wagons, and chariots when he enters your gates like men entering a city whose walls are broken open. ¹¹His horses' hooves will trample all your streets. He will kill your people with the sword, and your strong pillars will fall to the ground. ¹²They will plunder your wealth, loot your goods, break down your walls, and destroy your fine houses, throwing your stones, timber, and rubble into the sea. ¹³I will silence your noisy songs; your lyres will be heard no more. ¹⁴I will make you bare rock, a place to spread nets. You will never be rebuilt, for I, the Father, have spoken, declares the Sovereign Father.

¹⁵This is what the Sovereign Father says to Tyre: Won't the coastlands shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, when slaughter fills you? ¹⁶Then all the sea's rulers will step down from their thrones, lay aside their robes, and remove their embroidered garments. Clothed in trembling, they will sit on the ground, shuddering every moment, appalled at you. ¹⁷They will raise a lament over you: 'How you have perished, city renowned, you who were peopled from the seas—mighty on the sea, you and your residents, who spread terror over all who lived there!' ^a a v17 Tyre was a wealthy island city-state whose power and population were built on sea trade. ¹⁸Now the coastlands tremble on the day of your fall; the islands in the sea are dismayed at your passing.

¹⁹This is what the Sovereign Father says: When I make you a desolate city, like cities long abandoned, when I raise the deep over you and the great waters cover you, ²⁰then I will bring you down with those who go down to the pit, to the people of long ago. I will settle you in the earth below, among ancient ruins, with those who go down to the pit, so you will not return or take your place in the land of the living. ²¹I will bring you to a dreadful end, and you will be no more. You will be sought but never found again, declares the Sovereign Father.