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In the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:
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Mortal, because Tyre said concerning Jerusalem, "Aha, broken is the gateway of the peoples; it has swung open to me; I shall be replenished, now that it is wasted,"
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therefore, thus says the Lord God: See, I am against you, O Tyre! I will hurl many nations against you, as the sea hurls its waves.
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They shall destroy the walls of Tyre and break down its towers. I will scrape its soil from it and make it a bare rock.
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It shall become, in the midst of the sea, a place for spreading nets. I have spoken, says the Lord God. It shall become plunder for the nations,
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and its daughter-towns in the country shall be killed by the sword. Then they shall know that I am the Lord.
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For thus says the Lord God: I will bring against Tyre from the north King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon, king of kings, together with horses, chariots, cavalry, and a great and powerful army.
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Your daughter-towns in the country he shall put to the sword. He shall set up a siege wall against you, cast up a ramp against you, and raise a roof of shields against you.
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He shall direct the shock of his battering rams against your walls and break down your towers with his axes.