4. They will destroy your walls. They will pull your towers down. I will clear away the stones of your broken-down buildings. I will turn you into nothing but a bare rock.
5. "Out in the Mediterranean Sea your island city will become a place to spread fishnets. I have spoken," announces the Lord and King. "The nations will take you and everything you have.
6. Your settlements on the coast will be destroyed by war. Then you will know that I am the Lord."
7. The Lord and King says, "From the north I am going to bring Nebuchadnezzar against Tyre. He is king of Babylonia. He is the greatest king of all. He will come with horses and chariots. Horsemen and a great army will be brought along with him.
8. "He will go to war against you. He will destroy your settlements on the coast. He will bring in war machines to attack you. A ramp will be built up to your walls. He will use his shields against you.
9. He will use huge logs to knock your walls down. He will destroy your towers with his weapons.
10. "He will have so many horses that they will cover you with dust. Your walls will shake because of the noise of his war horses, wagons and chariots. He will enter your gates, just as men enter a city whose walls have been broken through.
11. The hoofs of his horses will pound in your streets. He will kill your people with swords. Your strong pillars will fall to the ground.
12. "His men will take away from you your wealth and anything else you have. They will pull your walls down. They will completely destroy your fine houses. They will throw the stones and lumber of your broken-down buildings into the sea.
13. "I will put an end to your noisy songs. No one will hear the music of your harps anymore.