Ezekiel:26

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* And it came to pass in the eleventh year , on the first of the month , [that ] the word of Jehovah came unto me , saying , * Son of man , because Tyre hath said against Jerusalem , Aha , she is broken , the gate of the peoples ! she is turned unto me : I shall be replenished [now ] she is laid waste ; * therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah : Behold , I am against thee , Tyre , and will cause many nations to come up against thee , as the sea causeth its waves to come up . * And they shall destroy the walls of Tyre , and break down her towers . And I will scrape her dust from her , and make her a bare rock . * She shall be [a place ] for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea ; for I have spoken [it ], saith the Lord Jehovah ; and she shall become a spoil for the nations . * And her daughters that are in the field shall be slain by the sword ; and they shall know that I [am ] Jehovah . * For thus saith the Lord Jehovah : Behold , I will bring from the north , against Tyre , Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon , the king of kings , with horses , and with chariots , and with horsemen , and an assemblage , and much people . * He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field , and he shall make forts against thee , and cast up a mound against thee , and lift up the target against thee ; * and he shall set his engines of attack against thy walls , and with his spikes he shall break down thy towers . * By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover thee ; thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen , and of the wheels , and of the chariots , when he shall enter through thy gates , as a city is entered into , wherein is made a breach . * With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all thy streets ; he shall slay thy people by the sword , and the pillars of thy strength shall go down to the ground . * And they shall make a spoil of thy riches , and make a prey of thy wares ; and they shall break down thy walls , and destroy thy pleasant houses ; and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the waters . * And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease ; and the sound of thy harps shall be no more heard . * And I will make thee a bare rock ; thou shalt be [a place ] for the spreading of nets ; thou shalt be built no more : for I Jehovah have spoken [it ], saith the Lord Jehovah . * Thus saith the Lord Jehovah to Tyre : Shall not the isles shake at the sound of thy fall , when the wounded groan , when the slaughter is made in the midst of thee ? * And all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones , and lay aside their robes , and put off their broidered garments : they shall clothe themselves with trembling , they shall sit upon the ground , and shall tremble [every ] moment , and be astonied because of thee . * And they shall take up a lamentation for thee , and say to thee , How hast thou perished , that wast inhabited from the seas , O renowned city , which wast strong in the sea , -- she and her inhabitants , who caused their terror to be on all them that dwell therein ! * Now shall the isles tremble in the day of thy fall ; and the isles that are in the sea shall be troubled at thy departure . * For thus saith the Lord Jehovah : When I shall make thee a desolate city , like the cities that are not inhabited ; when I bring up the deep upon thee , and the great waters cover thee : * then will I bring thee down , with them that go down to the pit , to the people of old time , and will cause thee to dwell in the lower parts of the earth , in places desolate of old , with them that go down to the pit , that thou be not inhabited ; and I will set glory in the land of the living . * And I will make thee a terror , and thou shalt be no [more ]; and thou shalt be sought for , and shalt never be found again , for ever , saith the Lord Jehovah .

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