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 has said about Jerusalem, ‘Aha, the gateway of the peoples is broken; it has swung open to me. I will become rich, now that she has been destroyed,’
3. therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, I am against you, O Tyre! 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. I will scrape her soil from her and make her a bare rock.
5. She will be a place where fishing nets are spread, surrounded by the sea. For I have spoken, declares the sovereign Lord. She will become plunder for the nations,
6. and her daughters who are in the field will be slaughtered by the sword. Then they will know that I am the Lord.
7. “For this is what the sovereign Lord says: Take note that I am about to bring King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon, king of kings, against Tyre from the north, with horses, chariots, and horsemen, an army and hordes of people.