Against Tyre
1 In the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, the LORD's word came to me:
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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!"
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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.
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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,
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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,
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and its towns around it will be put to the sword. Then they will know that I am the LORD.
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The LORD God proclaims: I'm bringing Nebuchadrezzar against Tyre, the king of Babylon from the north, the greatest of all kings, with horses, chariots, and charioteers, an assembly, a great army. Then he will build towers against you, erect siege ramps against you, and set up shields.
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The towns around you he will destroy with the sword.
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He will pound his battering ram against your walls; with crowbars he will tear down your towers.
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The dust from all his horses will cover you when he enters your gates as one who enters a breached city. Your walls will quake at the thundering of the charioteers and chariot wheels.
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His horses' hooves will trample all your courtyards; he will cut down your people with the sword, and the monuments to your strength he will bring down to the ground.
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They will destroy your wealth, plunder your goods, tear down your walls, and raze your fine houses. Your stone, lumber, and rubble they will dump into the sea.
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I will bring an end to your cacophonous songs; the sound of your lyres will never be heard again.
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I will make you into a bare rock, a place for drying nets, and you will never be rebuilt. I, the LORD, have spoken. This is what the LORD God says.