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In the eleventh year, on the first [day] of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:
Ezekiel 26:1 In-Context
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In the eleventh month of the twelfth year, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me:
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“Son of man, because Tyre has said of Jerusalem, ‘Aha! The gate to the nations is broken, and its doors have swung open to me; now that she lies in ruins I will prosper,’
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therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am against you, Tyre, and I will bring many nations against you, like the sea casting up its waves.
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They will destroy the walls of Tyre and pull down her towers; I will scrape away her rubble and make her a bare rock.
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Out in the sea she will become a place to spread fishnets, for I have spoken, declares the Sovereign LORD. She will become plunder for the nations,