English Standard Version

Ezekiel 26:9-20 English Standard Version (ESV)

9. He will direct the shock of his battering rams against your walls, and with his axes he will break down your towers.

10. His horses will be so many that their dust will cover you. Your walls will shake at the noise of the horsemen and wagons and chariots, when he enters your gates as men enter a city that has been breached.

11. With the hoofs of his horses he will trample all your streets. He will kill your people with the sword, and your mighty pillars will fall to the ground.

12. They will plunder your riches and loot your merchandise. They will break down your walls and destroy your pleasant houses. Your stones and timber and soil they will cast into the midst of the waters.

13. And I will stop the music of your songs, and the sound of your lyres shall be heard no more.

14. I will make you a bare rock. You shall be a place for the spreading of nets. You shall never be rebuilt, for I am the Lord; I have spoken, declares the Lord God.

15. “Thus says the Lord God to Tyre: Will not the coastlands shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, when slaughter is made in your midst?

16. Then all the princes of the sea will step down from their thrones and remove their robes and strip off their embroidered garments. They will clothe themselves with trembling; they will sit on the ground and tremble every moment and be appalled at you.

17. And they will raise a lamentation over you and say to you,“‘How you have perished,you who were inhabited from the seas,O city renowned, who was mighty on the sea;she and her inhabitants imposed their terroron all her inhabitants!

18. Now the coastlands trembleon the day of your fall,and the coastlands that are on the seaare dismayed at your passing.’

19. “For thus says the Lord God: When I make you a city laid waste, like the cities that are not inhabited, when I bring up the deep over you, and the great waters cover you,

20. then I will make you go down with those who go down to the pit, to the people of old, and I will make you to dwell in the world below, among ruins from of old, with those who go down to the pit, so that you will not be inhabited; but I will set beauty in the land of the living.