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26:1 In the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me: 26:2 'Son of man, because Tyre said concerning Jerusalem, Aha, the gate of the peoples is broken, it has swung open to me;I shall be replenished, now that she is laid waste,' 26:3 therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against you, O Tyre, and will bring up many nations against you, as the sea brings up its waves. 26:4 They shall destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down her towers;and I will scrape her soil from her, and make her a bare rock. 26:5 She shall be in the midst of the sea a place for the spreading of nets;for I have spoken, says the Lord GOD;and she shall become a spoil to the nations; 26:6 and her daughters on the mainland shall be slain by the sword. Then they will know that I am the LORD. 26:7 'For thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will bring upon Tyre from the north Nebuchadrez'zar king of Babylon, king of kings, with horses and chariots, and with horsemen and a host of many soldiers. 26:8 He will slay with the sword your daughters on the mainland;he will set up a siege wall against you, and throw up a mound against you, and raise a roof of shields against you. 26:9 He will direct the shock of his battering rams against your walls, and with his axes he will break down your towers. 26:10 His horses will be so many that their dust will cover you;your walls will shake at the noise of the horsemen and wagons and chariots, when he enters your gates as one enters a city which has been breached. 26:11 With the hoofs of his horses he will trample all your streets;he will slay your people with the sword;and your mighty pillars will fall to the ground. 26:12 They will make a spoil of your riches and a prey of your merchandise;they will break down your walls and destroy your pleasant houses;your stones and timber and soil they will cast into the midst of the waters. 26:13 And I will stop the music of your songs, and the sound of your lyres shall be heard no more. 26:14 I will make you a bare rock;you shall be a place for the spreading of nets;you shall never be rebuilt;for I the LORD have spoken, says the Lord GOD. 26:15 'Thus says the Lord GOD to Tyre: Will not the coastlands shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, when slaughter is made in the midst of you? 26:16 Then all the princes of the sea will step down from their thrones, and remove their robes, and strip off their embroidered garments;they will clothe themselves with trembling;they will sit upon the ground and tremble every moment, and be appalled at you. 26:17 And they will raise a lamentation over you, and say to you, How you have vanished from the seas, O city renowned, that was mighty on the sea, you and your inhabitants, who imposed your terror on all the mainland! 26:18 Now the isles tremble on the day of your fall;yea, the isles that are in the sea are dismayed at your passing.' 26:19 'For thus says the Lord GOD: When I make you a city laid waste, like the cities that are not inhabited, when I bring up the deep over you, and the great waters cover you, 26:20 then I will thrust you down with those who descend into the Pit, to the people of old, and I will make you to dwell in the nether world, among primeval ruins, with those who go down to the Pit, so that you will not be inhabited or have a place in the land of the living. 26:21 I will bring you to a dreadful end, and you shall be no more;though you be sought for, you will never be found again, says the Lord GOD.'