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"Therefore, God, the Master, has this to say: "'I'm against you, Tyre, and I'll bring many nations surging against you, as the waves of the sea surging against the shore.
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They'll smash the city walls of Tyre and break down her towers. I'll wash away the soil and leave nothing but bare rock.
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She'll be an island of bare rock in the ocean, good for nothing but drying fishnets. Yes, I've said so.' Decree of God, the Master. 'She'll be loot, free pickings for the nations!
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Her surrounding villages will be butchered. Then they'll realize that I am God.'
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"God, the Master, says: Look! Out of the north I'm bringing Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, a king's king, down on Tyre. He'll come with chariots and horses and riders - a huge army.
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He'll massacre your surrounding villages and lay siege to you. He'll build siege ramps against your walls. A forest of shields will advance against you!
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He'll pummel your walls with his battering rams and shatter your towers with his iron weapons.
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You'll be covered with dust from his horde of horses - a thundering herd of war horses pouring through the breaches, pulling chariots. Oh, it will be an earthquake of an army and a city in shock!
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Horses will stampede through the streets. Your people will be slaughtered and your huge pillars strewn like matchsticks.
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The invaders will steal and loot - all that wealth, all that stuff! They'll knock down your fine houses and dump the stone and timber rubble into the sea.
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And your parties, your famous good-time parties, will be no more. No more songs, no more lutes.