KJ3 Literal Translation
Ezekiel 26
Tyre, for enmity against Jerusalem, is threatened.
1And it was in the eleventh year, in the first of the month, the Word of Jehovah was to me, saying,
2Son of man, because Tyre has said against Jerusalem, Aha! She is shattered, the doors of the peoples; she has turned to me, I shall be filled, she is laid waste.
3So the Lord Jehovah says this, Behold, I am against you, O Tyre. And I will cause many nations to go up against you, as the sea causes its waves to go up.
4And they shall destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers. I will also scrape her dust from her and give her to be like a shining rock.
5It shall be a spreading place for nets in the middle of the sea. For I have spoken, a statement of the Lord Jehovah. And she shall be a prize to the nations.
6And her daughters who are in the field shall be killed by the sword. And they shall know that I am Jehovah.
7For so says the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will bring on Tyre from the north, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, a king of kings, with horses and with chariot and with a company of horsemen, even many people.
8He shall kill your daughters in the field with the sword. And he shall set siege walls against you and pour out a mound against you, and raise a buckler against you.
9And he will set the stroke of his ram against your walls, and he will break down your towers with his axes.
10From the multitude of his horses their dust shall cover you. From the sound of the horsemen, and the wheel, and the chariot, your walls shall shake when he goes into your gates, as they enter a city that is breached.
11With the hoofs of the horses, he will trample all your open places. He shall kill your people by the sword, and the pillars of your strength shall go down to the ground.
12And they shall draw out your wealth and plunder your merchandise. And they shall tear down your walls and destroy your desirable houses. And they shall set your stones and your timber and your dust in the midst of the water.
13And I will make cease the noise of your songs. And the sound of your harps shall not be heard any more.
14And I will make you like a shining rock. You shall be a spreading place for nets, you shall not be built any more. For I, Jehovah, have spoken, a statement of the Lord Jehovah.
15So says the Lord Jehovah to Tyre: Shall not the isles shake at the sound of your fall, when the pierced ones groan, in the slaying of the slaughter in your midst?
16And all the rulers of the sea shall come down from their thrones and lay aside their robes and strip off their embroidered garments. They shall be clothed with tremblings. They shall sit on the ground and shall tremble at every moment and be appalled at you.
17And they shall lift up a lament for you and say to you, How you are perished, who lived by the seas, the city well praised, which was strong in the sea, she and those living in her, who put their terrors on all the ones living in her!
18Now the isles shall tremble in the day of your fall. Yea, the isles by the sea shall be troubled at your going down.
19For so says the Lord Jehovah: When I shall give you to be a ruined city, like the cities that do not have ones living in them, when I shall bring up on you the deep, and great waters shall cover you.
20And I will bring you down with those going down into the Pit, with the people in days of old, and I shall set you in the earth's lowest parts, in places ruined from days of old, with ones going down to the Pit, so that you have none living in you. But I gave glory in the land of the living.
21I will give you terrors, and you will not be. Though you are sought, yet you shall not be found any more forever, a statement of the Lord Jehovah.
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