Holman Christian Standard Bible

Ezekiel 26:1-5 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

1. In the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:

2. “Son of man, because Tyre said about Jerusalem, ‘Good! The gateway to the peoples is shattered. She has been turned over to me. I will be filled now that she lies in ruins,’

3. therefore this is what the Lord God says: See, I am against you, Tyre! I will raise up many nations against you, just as the sea raises its waves.

4. They will destroy the walls of Tyre and demolish her towers. I will scrape the soil from her and turn her into a bare rock.

5. She will become a place in the sea to spread nets, for I have spoken.” This is the declaration of the Lord God. “She will become plunder for the nations,