Dual Panel1This word of the LORD came to me on the first day of the first month in the eleventh year:
2“O man, since Tyre has said of Jerusalem, ‘Aha! She who was the gateway of the nations is broken, her gates lie open before me; I prosper, she lies in ruin,’
3the Lord GOD says: I am against you, Tyre! As the sea raises up its waves, so shall I raise up many nations against you.
4They will destroy the walls of Tyre and overthrow her towers. I shall scrape the soil off her and leave her only bare rock;
5she will be an island where nets are spread to dry. This is my word, says the Lord GOD. She will become the prey of nations,
6and her daughters on the mainland will be slain. Then they will know that I am the LORD.
7“The Lord GOD says: From the north I am bringing against Tyre King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon, king of kings. He will come with horses and chariots, cavalry, and a great force of infantry.
8“He will put to the sword your daughters on the mainland. He will set up siege-towers and cast up siege-ramps against you, and raise a screen of shields facing you.
9He will launch his battering-rams on your walls and break down your towers with his axes.
10Dust will cover you from his innumerable cavalry. At the thunder of the horses and of the chariot wheels your walls will shake when he enters your gates as though entering a city that is breached.
11All your streets will be trampled by the hoofs of his horses. He will put your people to the sword, and bring your strong pillars to the ground.
12Your wealth will become spoil, your merchandise will be plundered. Your walls will be levelled, and your fine houses pulled down; the stones, timber, and rubble will be dumped in the sea.
13I shall silence the chorus of your songs, and the sound of your harps will be heard no more.
14I shall make you a bare rock, a place where nets are spread to dry. You will never be rebuilt. “I, the LORD, have spoken. This is the word of the Lord GOD.
15“THE Lord GOD says to Tyre: How the coasts and islands will shake at the sound of your downfall, while the wounded groan and slaughter prevails in your midst!
16Then the sea-kings will descend from their thrones, lay aside their cloaks, and strip off their brocaded robes. They will put on loincloths and sit on the ground, shuddering incessantly, aghast at your fate.
17They will raise this dirge over you: ‘How you are undone, swept from the seas, you city of renown! You whose strength lay in the sea, you and your inhabitants, who spread your terror throughout the world.
18Now the coastlands shudder on the day of your downfall, and the isles are appalled at your passing.’
19“For the Lord GOD says: When I make you a desolate city, like cities where no one lives, when I bring the primeval ocean up over you and the great waters cover you,
20I shall thrust you down with those who go down to the abyss, to the dead of all the ages; I shall make you dwell in the underworld as in places long desolate, with those that go down to the abyss. So you will never again be inhabited or take your place in the land of the living.
21I shall bring destruction on you, and you will be no more; people may look for you but will never find you again. This is the word of the Lord GOD.”