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O Tyre, and I will bring many nations against you, like the waves of the
sea crashing against your shoreline. They will destroy the walls of Tyre and
tear down its towers. I will scrape away its soil and make it a bare rock! It
will be just a rock in the sea, a place for fishermen to spread their nets, for I
have spoken, says the Sovereign Lord. Tyre will become the prey of many
nations, and its mainland villages will be destroyed by the sword. Then
they will know that I am the Lord.
“This is what the Sovereign Lord says: From the north I will bring
King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon against Tyre. He is king of kings and
brings his horses, chariots, chario teers, and great army. First he will de
stroy your mainland villages. Then he will attack you by building a siege
wall, constructing a ramp, and raising a roof of shields against you. He
will pound your walls with battering rams and demolish your towers with
sledgehammers. The hooves of his horses will choke the city with dust,
and the noise of the chario teers and chariot wheels will shake your walls as
they storm through your broken gates. His horsemen will trample through
every street in the city. They will butcher your people, and your strong
pillars will topple.
“They will plunder all your riches and merchandise and break down
your walls. They will destroy your lovely homes and dump your stones
and timbers and even your dust into the sea. I will stop the music of your
songs. No more will the sound of harps be heard among your people. I will
make your island a bare rock, a place for fishermen to spread their nets.
You will never be rebuilt, for I, the Lord, have spoken. Yes, the Sovereign
Lord has spoken!
“This is what the Sovereign Lord says to Tyre: The whole coastline will
tremble at the sound of your fall, as the screams of the wounded echo in
the continuing slaughter. All the seaport rulers will step down from their
thrones and take off their royal robes and beautiful clothing. They will sit
on the ground trembling with horror at your destruction. Then they will
wail for you, singing this funeral song:
“O famous island city,
once ruler of the sea,
how you have been destroyed!
Your people, with their naval power,
once spread fear around the world.
Now the coastlands tremble at your fall.
The islands are dismayed as you disappear.
“This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will make Tyre an uninhabited
ruin, like many others. I will bury you beneath the terrible waves of enemy
attack. Great seas will swallow you. I will send you to the pit to join those
