nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth his waves to come up.
[4] And they shall destroy
the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like
the top of a rock.
[5] It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea: for I have spoken
it, saith the Lord GOD: and it shall become a spoil to the nations.
[6] And her daughters which are in
the field shall be slain by the sword; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
[7] For thus saith the Lord
GOD; Behold, I will bring upon Tyrus Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, a king of kings, from the north,
with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and companies, and much people.
[8] He shall slay
with the sword thy daughters in the field: and he shall make a fort against thee, and cast a mount against
thee, and lift up the buckler against thee.
[9] And he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with
his axes he shall break down thy towers.
[10] By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall
cover thee: thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wheels, and of the chariots,
when he shall enter into thy gates, as men enter into a city wherein is made a breach.
[11] With the hoofs
of his horses shall he tread down all thy streets: he shall slay thy people by the sword, and thy strong
garrisons shall go down to the ground.
[12] And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey
of thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses: and they shall
lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water.
[13] And I will cause the noise of thy
songs to cease; and the sound of thy harps shall be no more heard.
[14] And I will make thee like the
top of a rock: thou shalt be a place to spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no more: for I the LORD have
spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
[15] Thus saith the Lord GOD to Tyrus; Shall not the isles shake at the
sound of thy fall, when the wounded cry, when the slaughter is made in the midst of thee?
[16] Then all
the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and lay away their robes, and put off their
broidered garments: they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit upon the ground, and shall
tremble at every moment, and be astonished at thee.
[17] And they shall take up a lamentation for thee,
and say to thee, How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited of seafaring men, the renowned city, which
wast strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, which cause their terror to be on all that haunt it!
[18]
Now shall the isles tremble in the day of thy fall; yea, the isles that are in the sea shall be troubled at
thy departure.
[19] For thus saith the Lord GOD; When I shall make thee a desolate city, like the cities
that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep upon thee, and great waters shall cover thee;
[20]
When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, with the people of old time, and shall
set thee in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that
thou be not inhabited; and I shall set glory in the land of the living;
[21] I will make thee a terror, and thou
shalt be no more: though thou be sought for, yet shalt thou never be found again, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezek.27
[1] The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,
[2] Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation
for Tyrus;
[3] And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea, which art a merchant of
the people for many isles, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of perfect beauty.
[4]
Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty.
[5] They have made all
thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir: they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee.
[6] Of
the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars; the company of the Ashurites have made thy benches of
ivory, brought out of the isles of Chittim.
[7] Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which
thou spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered
thee.
[8] The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners: thy wise men, O Tyrus, that were in thee,
were thy pilots.
[9] The ancients of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in thee thy calkers: all the ships
of the sea with their mariners were in thee to occupy thy merchandise.
[10] They of Persia and of Lud
and of Phut were in thine army, thy men of war: they hanged the shield and helmet in thee; they set forth
thy comeliness.
[11] The men of Arvad with thine army were upon thy walls round about, and the Gammadims
were in thy towers: they hanged their shields upon thy walls round about; they have made thy beauty
perfect.
[12] Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of riches; with silver, iron,
tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs.
[13] Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants: they
traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market.
[14] They of the house of Togarmah traded
in thy fairs with horses and horsemen and mules.
[15] The men of Dedan were thy merchants; many isles
were the merchandise of thine hand: they brought thee for a present horns of ivory and ebony.
[16] Syria