Ezekiel 26:1-28:26 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

CAB⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ And it came to pass in the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, that the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ² Son of man, because Tyre has said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is crushed — the nations are destroyed; she has turned to me; she that was full is made desolate. ³ Therefore thus says the Lord: Behold, I am against you, O Tyre, and I will bring up many nations against you, as the sea comes up with its waves. ⁴ And they shall cast down the walls of Tyre, and shall cast down your towers: and I will scrape her dust from off her, and make her a bare rock. ⁵ She shall be in the midst of the sea a place for repairing nets, for I have spoken it, says the Lord; and it shall be a spoil for the nations. ⁶ And her daughters which are in the field shall be slain with the sword, and they shall know that I am the Lord. ⁷ For thus says the Lord: Behold, I will bring up against you, O Tyre, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from the north: he is a king of kings, with horses, and chariots, and horsemen, and a concourse of very many nations. ⁸ He shall slay your daughters that are in the field with the sword, and shall set a watch against you, and build forts around you, and carry a rampart round against you, and set up warlike works, and array his spears against you. ⁹ He shall cast down with his swords your walls and your towers. ¹⁰ By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover you, and by reason of the sound of his horsemen and the wheels of his chariots your walls shall be shaken, when he enters into your gates, as one entering into a city from the plain. ¹¹ With the hoofs of his horses they shall trample all your streets. He shall slay your people with the sword, and shall bring down to the ground the support of your strength. ¹² And he shall prey upon your power, and plunder your substance, and shall cast down your walls, and break down your pleasant houses; and he shall cast your stones and your timber and your dust into the midst of your sea. ¹³ And he shall destroy the multitude of your musicians, and the sound of your psalteries shall be heard no more. ¹⁴ And I will make you a bare rock. You shall be a place to spread nets upon; you shall be built no more; for I the Lord have spoken it, says the Lord. ¹⁵ For thus says the Lord God to Tyre: Shall not the isles shake at the sound of your fall, while the wounded are groaning, while they have drawn a sword in the midst of you? ¹⁶ And all the princes of the nations of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and shall take off their crowns from their heads, and shall take off their embroidered garments; they shall be utterly amazed; they shall sit upon the ground, and fear their own destruction, and shall groan over you. ¹⁷ And they shall take up a lamentation for you, and shall say to you, How are you destroyed from out of the sea, O renowned city, that brought her terror upon all her inhabitants! ¹⁸ And the isles shall be alarmed at the day of your fall. ¹⁹ For thus says the Lord God: When I shall make the city desolate, as the cities that shall not be inhabited, when I have brought the deep up upon you, ²⁰ and great waters shall cover you, and I shall bring you down to them that go down to the pit, to the people of old time, and shall cause you to dwell in the depths of the earth, as in everlasting desolation, with them that go down to the pit, that you may not be inhabited, nor stand upon the land of life; ²¹ I will make you a terror, and you shall be no more forever, says the Lord God. ²⁷ ¹ And the word of the Lord came to me saying, ² And you, son of man, take up a lamentation against Tyre; ³ and you shall say to Tyre that dwells at the entrance of the sea, to the merchant of the nations coming from many islands, Thus says the Lord to Tyre: You have said, I have clothed myself with my beauty. ⁴ In the heart of the sea your sons have put beauty upon you for Beelim. ⁵ Cedar in Senir was employed for you in building; boards of cypress timber were taken out of Lebanon, and wood to make your masts of fir. ⁶ They made your oars of wood out of the land of Bashan; your sacred utensils they made of ivory, your shady houses of wood from the isles of Kittim. ⁷ Fine linen with embroidery from Egypt supplied the couch, to put honor upon you, and to clothe you with blue and purple from the isles of Elishah; and they became your coverings. ⁸ And your princes were the dwellers in Sidon, and the Aradians were your rowers: your wise men, O Tyre, who were in you, these were your pilots. ⁹ The elders of the Biblians, and their wise men, who were in you, these helped your counsel; and all the ships of the sea and their rowers traded for you to the utmost west. ¹⁰ Persians and Lydians and Libyans were in your army. Your warriors hung in you shields and helmets; these gave you your glory. ¹¹ The sons of the Aradians and your army were upon the walls; there were guards in your towers. They hung their quivers on your battlements round about; these completed your beauty. ¹² The Carthaginians were your merchants because of the abundance of all your strength; they furnished your market with silver, gold, iron, tin and lead. ¹³ Greece, both the whole world, and the adjacent coasts, these traded with you in the persons of men, and they gave as your merchandise vessels of brass. ¹⁴ Out of the house of Togarmah horses and horsemen furnished the market. ¹⁵ The sons of the Dedan were your merchants; from the islands they multiplied your merchandise, even the elephants' tusks: and to them that came to you payed you back, ¹⁶ even men as your merchandise, from the multitude of your trading population, myrrh and embroidered works from Tarshish. Ramoth also and Chorchor furnished your market. ¹⁷ Judah and the children of Israel, these were your merchants; in the sale of grain and ointments and cassia; and they gave the best honey and oil and resin, to your trading population. ¹⁸ The people of Damascus were your merchants by reason of the abundance of all your power; wine out of Helbon, and wool from Miletus; and they brought wine into your market. ¹⁹ Out of Uzal came wrought iron, and there is the sound of wheels among your trading population. ²⁰ The people of Dedan were your merchants, with choice cattle for chariots. ²¹ Arabia and all the princes of Kedar, these were your traders with you, bringing camels, lambs, and rams, in which they trade with you. ²² The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, these were your merchants, with choice spices, and precious stones; and they brought gold to your market. ²³ Haran and Canneh, these were your merchants: Assyria and Chilmad, were your merchants; ²⁴ bringing for merchandise blue, and choice stores bound with cords, and cypress wood. ²⁵ Ships were your merchants, in abundance, with your trading population; and you were filled and very heavily loaded in the heart of the sea. ²⁶ The rowers have brought you into great waters. The south wind has broken you in the heart of the sea. ²⁷ Your forces and your gain, and that of your traders and your rowers, and your pilots and your counselors, and they that traffic with you, and all your warriors that are in you; and all your company in the midst of you shall perish in the heart of the sea, in the day of your fall. ²⁸ At the cry of your voice your pilots shall be greatly terrified; ²⁹ and all the rowers and the mariners shall come down from the ships, and the pilots of the sea shall stand on the land. ³⁰ And they shall wail over you with their voice, and cry bitterly, and put earth on their heads, and spread ashes under them. ³¹ (TEXT OMITTED) ³² And their sons shall take up a lament for you, even a lamentation for Tyre, saying, ³³ How large a reward have you gained from the sea? You have filled nations out of your abundance; and out of your mixed merchandise you have enriched all the kings of the earth. ³⁴ Now are you broken in the sea, your traders are in the deep water, and all your company in the midst of you; all your rowers have fallen. ³⁵ All the dwellers in the islands have mourned over you, and their kings have been utterly amazed, and their countenance has wept. ³⁶ Merchants from the nations have hissed at you; you are utterly destroyed, and shall not be any more forever. ²⁸ ¹ And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ² And you, son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord: Because your heart has been exalted, and you have said, I am God, I have inhabited the dwelling of God in the heart of the sea; yet you are a man and not God, though you have set your heart as the heart of God. ³ Are you wiser than Daniel? Or have not the wise instructed you with their knowledge? ⁴ Have you gained power for yourself by your own knowledge or your own prudence, and gathered gold and silver in your treasures? ⁵ By your abundant knowledge and your traffic you have multiplied your power; your heart has been lifted up by your power. ⁶ Therefore thus says the Lord: Since you have set your heart as the heart of God; ⁷ because of this, behold, I will bring on you strange plagues from the nations; and they shall draw their swords against you, and against the beauty of your knowledge, ⁸ and they shall bring down your beauty to destruction. And they shall bring you down; and you shall die the death of the slain in the heart of the sea. ⁹ Will you indeed say, I am God, before them that slay you? Seeing you are man, and not God. ¹⁰ You shall perish by the hands of strangers among the multitude of the uncircumcised, for I have spoken it, says the Lord. ¹¹ And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ¹² Son of man, take up a lamentation for the prince of Tyre, and say to him, Thus says the Lord God: You were a seal of resemblance, and a crown of beauty. ¹³ You were in the delight of the paradise of God; you were adorned with every precious stone — the sardius, topaz, emerald, carbuncle, sapphire, jasper, silver, gold, ligure, agate, amethyst, chrysolite, beryl and onyx; and you have filled your treasures and your stores in you with gold. ¹⁴ From the day that you were created you were with the cherub; I set you on the holy mount of God; you were in the midst of the stones of fire. ¹⁵ You were faultless in your days, from the day that you were created, until iniquity was found in you. ¹⁶ Of the abundance of your merchandise you have filled your storehouses with iniquity, and have sinned. Therefore you have been cast down wounded from the mount of God, and the cherub has brought you out of the midst of the stones of fire. ¹⁷ Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; your knowledge has been corrupted by your beauty: because of the multitude of your sins I have cast you to the ground, I have caused you to be put to open shame before kings. ¹⁸ Because of the multitude of your sins and the iniquities of your merchandise, I have profaned your sacred things; and I will bring fire out of the midst of you, this shall devour you; and I will make you to be ashes upon your land before all that see you. ¹⁹ And all that know you among the nations shall groan over you. You have gone to destruction, and you shall not exist any longer. ²⁰ And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ²¹ Son of man, set your face against Sidon, and prophesy against it, ²² and say, Thus says the Lord: Behold, I am against you, O Sidon; and I will be glorified in you; and you shall know that I am the Lord, when I have wrought judgments in you, and I will be sanctified in you. ²³ Blood and death shall be in your streets; and men wounded with swords shall fall in you and on every side of you; and they shall know that I am the Lord. ²⁴ And there shall no more be in the house of Israel a thorn of bitterness and a pricking briar proceeding from them that are round about them, who dishonored them; and they shall know that I am the Lord. ²⁵ Thus says the Lord God: I will also gather Israel from the nations, among whom they have been scattered, and I will be sanctified among them, and before the peoples and nations; and they shall dwell upon their land, which I gave to My servant Jacob. ²⁶ Yea, they shall dwell upon it safely, and they shall build houses, and plant vineyards, and dwell securely, when I shall execute judgment on all that have dishonored them, even on those that are round about them; and they shall know that I am the Lord their God, and the God of their fathers.