1. Now in the eleventh year, on the first of the month, the word of the Lord came to me saying,
2. "Son of man, because Tyre has said concerning Jerusalem, 'Aha, the gateway of the peoples is broken; it has opened to me. I shall be filled, now that she is laid waste,'
3. therefore thus says the Lord God, 'Behold, I am against you, O Tyre, and I will bring up many nations against you, as the sea brings up its waves.
4. They will destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers; and I will scrape her debris from her and make her a bare rock.
5. She will be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea, for I have spoken,' declares the Lord God, 'and she will become spoil for the nations.