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Son of man, because Tyre has said concerning Jerusalem, Aha,
it is well that she is broken who is the gate of the peoples; she is turned unto me; I shall be filled; and she
shall be deserted:
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therefore thus hath the Lord GOD said; Behold, I
am against thee, O Tyre, and will cause many nations to come up against thee as the sea causes its waves to come up.
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And they shall demolish the walls of Tyre and destroy her towers; I will also scrape her dust from her and make her like the top of a rock.
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It shall be
a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea: for I have spoken, said the Lord GOD, and it shall be spoiled by the Gentiles.
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And her daughters who
are in the field shall be slain by the sword; and they shall know that I
am the LORD.
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For thus hath the Lord GOD said; Behold, I bring upon Tyre Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon,
a king of kings, from the north, with horses and with chariots and with horsemen and companies and many people.
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He shall slay with the sword thy daughters who
are in the field; and he shall make a fort against thee and cast a mount against thee and lift up the buckler against thee.
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And he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with his hammers he shall break down thy towers.
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By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover thee; thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen and of the wheels, and of the chariots when he shall enter into thy gates as men enter through breaches into a destroyed city.
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With the hoofs of his horses he shall tread down all thy streets; he shall slay thy people by the sword, and the statues of thy strength shall fall to the ground.
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And they shall steal thy riches and make a spoil of thy merchandise; and they shall ruin thy walls and destroy thy precious houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the waters.