Ezekiel 26:1-6

Against Tyre

1 In the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, the LORD's word came to me:
2 Human one, because Tyre laughed at Jerusalem: "The gate of the peoples is broken, she lies open before me, she is destroyed, but I will succeed!"
3 The LORD God now proclaims: Tyre, I'm now against you! Just as the sea hurls up its waves, I will bring many nations up against you.
4 When they destroy the walls of Tyre and throw down its towers, I will scrape off all its dirt and make it into a bare rock,
5 a place for drying nets in the middle of the sea. I have spoken! This is what the LORD God says. It will become prey for the nations,
6 and its towns around it will be put to the sword. Then they will know that I am the LORD.

Ezekiel 26:1-6 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO EZEKIEL 26

This chapter contains a prophecy of the destruction of Tyre. The time of the prophecy, Eze 26:1, the cause of the destruction of it, rejoicing at the ruin of Jerusalem, Eze 26:2, the instruments of it, many nations, particularly the king of Babylon, Eze 26:3-7, the manner in which it shall be done, Eze 26:8-14, the lamentation of other isles, and the princes of them, on account of it, Eze 26:15-18, the utter destruction of it, so as never to be found any more, Eze 26:19-21.

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