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

Thomson⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Again it came to pass in the eleventh year on the first of the month, a word of the Lord came to me, saying, ² Son of man, Because Sor hath said against Jerusalem, Aha! She is trodden down; the nations have destroyed her; she is turned over to me; she that was full is laid waste, ³ therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold I am against thee, Sor, and I will bring up many nations against thee, as the sea cometh up with its waves. ⁴ And they shall demolish the walls of Sor and break down thy towers; and I will brush away the loose earth from it and make it a bare rock. ⁵ It shall be a place to dry nets in the midst of the sea. As I have spoken, saith the Lord, It shall indeed be a prey for the nations; ⁶ and its daughters on the continent shall be slain with the sword: and they shall know that I am the Lord. ⁷ For thus saith the Lord, Behold against thee, Sor, I will bring from the North, Nabuchodonosar king of Babylon, a king of kings, with horses and chariots and horsemen, and a great assembly of many nations. ⁸ Thy daughters on the main land he will slay with the sword; and he will lay siege to thee and surround thee with works, and make a rampart against thee round about, with places for engines; and arrange his lances over against thee, ⁹ and with his battle axes demolish thy walls and thy towers. ¹⁰ By reason of the multitude of his horses their dust shall cover thee; and with the neighing of his horses and the rumbling of his chariot wheels thy walls shall shake when he entereth thy gates like one entering a city from the plain. ¹¹ With the hoofs of his horses all thy streets shall be trampled. He will slay thy people with the sword; and level to the ground the confidence of ¹² thy strength; and make a prey of thine army, and a spoil of thy wealth; and break down thy walls and demolish thy lovely houses; and thy stones and thy timbers and thy rubbish he will throw into the midst of the sea. ¹³ And he will put an end to the multitude of thy musicians; and the sound of thy psalteries shall no more be heard. ¹⁴ I will indeed make thee a bare rock. Thou shalt be a place for drying nets, thou shalt never be rebuilded any more; for I the Lord have spoken, saith the Lord. ¹⁵ For thus saith the Lord, Lord, to Sor: At the sound of thy fall; at the groans of thy wounded, when the sword is drawn in the midst of thee, shall not the islands quake? ¹⁶ Yes, from their thrones will come down all the chiefs of the maritime nations, and they will take their crowns from their heads, and strip off their embroidered robes. They will be struck with consternation and sit on the ground, and be in dread of their own destruction and groan for thee. ¹⁷ And they will take up a lamentation for thee and say to thee, "How art thou destroyed from the sea, renowned city! which didst impress the terror of thee on all who inhabit its shores! ¹⁸ The isles also will be terrified at the day of thy fall. ¹⁹ For thus saith the Lord, Lord, When I make thee a desolate city, like cities never to be rebuilded, when I bring up the abyss against thee; much water shall cover thee. ²⁰ And I will press thee down to them who go down to the pit, to the people of old; and make thee dwell in the depths of the earth; in an everlasting desert, with them who go down to the pit; that thou mayst never be rebuilt nor rise again in the land of life. ²¹ I will make thee a desolation; and thou shalt never come into existence again, saith the Lord, Lord. ²⁷ ¹ Then a word of the Lord came to me saying, ² Therefore, son of man, take up a lamentation for Sor ³ and thou shalt say to Sor, which is situate at the entrance of the sea, the mart of nations from many isles, thus saith the Lord to Sor, thou saidst, "I have clothed myself with beauty." ⁴ In the heart of the sea thy sons clothed thee with beauty for Beelim. ⁵ The cedars from Senir cut into planks have been built into ships for thee; they took cypresses from Lebanon to make for thee tapering masts: ⁶ from the groves of Bashan they made thy oars. Thy temples they built of ivory and thy roomy houses from the isles of the Chetians: ⁷ cotton with embroidery from Egypt was the covering of thy bed. To add to thy glory, and that thou mightest clothe thyself with blue and purple, thy clothing came from the isles of Elisa. ⁸ The inhabitants of Sidon were thy captains; and the Aradians were thy mariners; thine own wise men, Sor, who were in thee, were thy pilots. ⁹ The elders of Biblii, even their wise men who were in thee, invigorated thy counsel. And all the ships of the sea and all the mariners of the western world were in thy service. ¹⁰ Persians and Lydians and Libyans were in thine army. Thy warriors hung up in thee shields and helmets. They increased thy glory. ¹¹ The Aradians, the army on thy walls, were guards in thy towers; they hung up their quivers on thy shoulders round about. They made thy beauty perfect. ¹² The Karchadians purchased of thee for exportation, from thy vast stock of all kinds of merchandize; and paid thee for their purchases silver and gold and iron and tin and lead. ¹³ Hellas, even that whole country and those stretching beyond it, traded with thee in the souls of men and supplied thy market with vessels of brass. ¹⁴ From the house of Thogarma thy market was supplied with horses and horsemen. ¹⁵ The sons of the Rhodians were thy merchants: from the isles they plentifully supplied thy market with ivory; ¹⁶ and in exchange thou didst supply them with thy merchandise, with slaves a part of thy exports from thy vast stock of wares, with stacte and embroideries from Tharsis and Ramoth and Chorchor. ¹⁷ Juda also and the children of Israel traded with thee in the sale of wheat and myrrh and cassia; and for thy merchandises supplied thee chiefly with honey and oil and frankincense. ¹⁸ Damascus was thy customer for thine abundant wares of all kinds, they had wine from Chelbon, so they paid for their purchases with wool from Miletus and with wine. ¹⁹ From Asel thou wast supplied with manufactured iron, which was a part of thy merchandise by a circuitous trade. ²⁰ Daidan was a dealer with thee and supplied thee with choice cattle for carriages. ²¹ Arabia and all the chiefs of Kedar dealt with thee, and paid thee camels and lambs and rams for what they purchased of thee. ²² The merchants of Saba and Ramma traded with thee with the choicest spiceries and precious stones; they gave gold also for thy merchandise. ²³ Charra and Chana also were thy customers and so were Assur and Charman: ²⁴ they supplied thy market with blue cloth and choice merchandise bound up in bales. ²⁵ Fleets of cypress ships were employed in thy trade. So with this multitude and with thy merchandise thou wast filled and deeply laden in the heart of the sea. ²⁶ Into deep water thy mariners steered thee. In the midst of the sea the south wind hath wrecked thee. ²⁷ Thine armies, and the gains of thee and of thy factors, with thy mariners, and thy pilots, and thy counsellors, and thy factors and all thy warriors were on board of thee: and all this assemblage of thine which are in thee shall sink in the heart of the sea on the day of thy ruin. ²⁸ At the scream of thy voice thy pilots will be astounded. ²⁹ They who handle the oar and they on board ships will quit their vessels; and they who frequent the sea will stand on the land, ³⁰ and with their voice raise a mournful cry for thee, and scream bitterly and put earth on their heads and strew themselves with ashes, ³¹ [Omitted] ³² and their children will take up a lamentation for thee a peculiar song of Woe for Sor" ³³ what immense wealth didst thou acquire from the sea! with thine abundance thou didst fill nations; and with thy traffic enrich all the kings of the earth. ³⁴ Now thou art overwhelmed in the sea; in deep water, thy merchandise, with all thy crew in thee. All thy mariners are fallen. ³⁵ For thee all the inhabitants of the isles are in distress, and their kings are struck with amaze, and tears bedew their countenance. ³⁶ For thee the merchants of the nations express pity; thou art utterly destroyed and never to be any more." ²⁸ ¹ Again a word of the Lord came to me, saying, ² and thou son of man say to the prince of Tyre, Thus saith the Lord, Because thy heart is elated, and thou hast said, "I am a God."" I inhabit the dwelling of a god in the heart of the sea." Now as for thee thou art a man and not a God; though thou hast set thy heart as the heart of a God. ³ Art thou wiser than Daniel? Have not wise men taught thee with their knowledge? ⁴ Didst thou by thy knowledge, or thine own understanding, procure for thyself power and gold and silver in thy treasuries? ⁵ By thy great skill and thy traffic thou hast increased thy wealth; and with thy wealth thy heart is elated; ⁶ therefore, Thus saith the Lord, Since thou hast set thy heart as the heart of a God; ⁷ for this, behold I will bring against thee strange ravagers from the nations, and they shall unsheath their swords against thee and against the beauty of thy wisdom; ⁸ and they shall bring down thy beauty to destruction and trample thee down; and thou shalt die the death of wounded men in the heart of the sea ⁹ Wilt thou say, "I am a God," in the presence of them who are slaying thee? Thou indeed art but a man and not a God. ¹⁰ Among a multitude of uncircumcised thou shalt die by the hand of strangers, for I have spoken, saith the Lord. ¹¹ Then a 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 saith the Lord, Lord, thou wast an impression of resemblance and a crown of beauty. ¹³ In the delightful paradise of God thou wast born, Thou hast been adorned with every precious stone, the sardis and topaz and emerald and carbuncle and sapphire and jasper, and with silver and gold and the ligure and agate, and amethyst and chrysolite and beryl and onyx; and hast filled thy treasuries and thy stores with gold. ¹⁴ From the day thou wast created thou wast with the cherub. On the holy mountain of God I placed thee, thou wast born in the midst of sparkling stones. ¹⁵ Thou in thy days wast spotless from the day thou wast created, until iniquities were found in thee. ¹⁶ By reason of thine abundant traffic thou didst fill thy stores with iniquity and commit sins; therefore thou art cast out slain from the mountain of God; and from amidst the sparkling stones the cherub hath dragged thee. ¹⁷ Thy heart was elated because of thy beauty; with thy beauty thine understanding was perverted. For the multitude of thy sins I have dashed thee on the ground; in the presence of kings I have made thee a public example. ¹⁸ For the multitude of thy sins and the iniquities of thy traffic I have denied thy sanctuaries; and from the midst of thee I will bring out a fire which shall devour thee. And I will make thee like ashes on the ground, in the sight of all them who behold thee. ¹⁹ And all that knew thee among the nations shall lament over thee. Thou art utterly destroyed and never to be any more. ²⁰ Then a word of the Lord came to me, saying, ²¹ Son of man, set thy face against Sidon, and prophesy against it and say, ²² Thus saith the Lord, Behold I am against thee, Sidon, and I shall be glorified by thee; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord. When I execute judgments on thee, then shall I be hallowed by thee. ²³ There shall be blood and death in thy streets, and the victims of the sword shall fall in and around thee: and they shall know that I am the Lord. ²⁴ And there shall no more be in the house of Israel a pricking briar nor a grieving thorn, by reason of those around them, who despised them: and they shall know that I am the Lord. ²⁵ Thus saith the Lord, Lord, When I gather Israel from among the nations where they were scattered, I shall be hallowed by them even in the sight of the peoples and nations and they shall dwell in their land which I gave to my servant Jacob. ²⁶ And they shall dwell there securely and shall build houses and plant vineyards: they shall indeed dwell securely when I have executed judgment on all who despised them; on all their neighbours around them; and they shall know that I the Lord am their God and the God of their fathers.