Ezekiel:26

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* And it came to pass in the eleventh year , the first day of the month , that the word of the Lord came to me , saying : * Son of man , because Tyre hath said of Jerusalem : Aha , the gates of the people are broken , she is turned to me : I shall be filled , now she is laid waste . * Therefore thus saith the Lord God : Behold I come against thee , O Tyre , and I will cause many nations to come up to thee , as the waves of the sea rise up . * And they shall break down the walls of Tyre , and destroy the towers thereof : and I will scrape her dust from her , and make her like a smooth rock . * She shall be a drying place for nets in the midst of the sea , because I have spoken it , saith the Lord God : and she shall be a spoil to the nations . * Her daughters also that are in the field , shall be slain by the sword : and they shall know that I am the Lord . * For thus saith the Lord God : Behold I will bring against Tyre Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon , the king of kings , from the north , with horses , and chariots , and horsemen , and companies , and much people . * Thy daughters that are in the field , he shall kill with the sword : and he shall compass thee with forts , and shall cast up a mount round about : and he shall lift up the buckler against thee . * And he shall set engines of mar and battering rams against thy walls , and shall destroy thy towers with his arms . * By reason of the multitude of his horses , their dust shall cover thee : thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen , and wheels , and chariots , when they shall go in at thy gates , as by the entrance of a city that is destroyed . * With the hoofs of his horses he shall tread down all thy streets : thy people he shall kill with the sword , and thy famous statues shall fall to the ground . * They shall waste thy riches , they shall make a spoil of thy merchandise : and they shall destroy thy walls , and pull down thy fine houses : and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber , and thy dust in the midst of the waters . * And I will make the multitude of thy songs to cease , and the sound of thy harps shall be heard no more . * And I will make thee like a naked rock , then shalt be a drying place for nets , neither shalt thou be built any more : for I have spoken it , saith . the Lord God . * Thus saith the Lord God to Tyre : Shall not the islands shake at the sound of thy fall , and the groans of thy slain when they shall be killed in the midst of thee ? * Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones : and take off their robes , and cast away their broidered garments , and be clothed with astonishment : they shall sit on the ground , and with amazement shall wonder at thy sudden fall . * And taking up a lamentation over thee , they shall sag to thee : How art thou fallen , that dwellest in the sea , renowned city that wast strong in the sea , with thy inhabitants whom all did dread ? * Now shall the ships be astonished in the day of thy terror : and the islands in the sea shall be troubled because no one cometh out of thee . * For thus saith the Lord God : When I shall make thee a desolate city like the cities that are not inhabited : and shall bring the deep upon thee , and many waters shall cover thee : * And when I shall bring thee down with those that descend into the pit to the everlasting people , and shall set thee in the lowest parts of the earth , as places desolate of old , with them that are brought down into the pit , that thou be not inhabited : and when I shall give glory in the land of the living , * I will bring thee to nothing , and thou shalt not be , and if thou be sought for , thou shalt not be found any more for ever , saith the Lord God .

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