Ezekiel 26

1In the eleventh year, in the first of the month, Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,Cross-references: Jer 39:2 · Ezek 1:2 · Ezek 8:1 · Ezek 20:1

2“Son of man, because Tyre has said against Jerusalem, ‘Aha! She is broken! She who was the gateway of the peoples has been returned to me. I will be replenished, now that she is laid waste;’Cross-references: Josh 19:29 · 2Sam 5:11 · Ps 35:21 · Ps 40:15 · Ps 70:3 · Ps 83:2 · +16 more

3therefore the Lord Yahweh says, ‘Behold, I am against you, Tyre, and will cause many nations to come up against you, as the sea causes its waves to come up.Cross-references: Ps 93:3 · Ps 107:25 · Isa 5:30 · Jer 6:23 · Jer 21:13 · Jer 50:31 · +12 more

4They will destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down her towers. I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her a bare rock.Cross-references: Lev 14:41 · Isa 23:11 · Jer 5:10 · Ezek 24:7 · Ezek 26:9 · Ezek 26:12 · +2 more

5She will be a place for the spreading of nets in the middle of the sea; for I have spoken it,’ says the Lord Yahweh. ‘She will become plunder for the nations.Cross-references: Ezek 25:7 · Ezek 26:14 · Ezek 26:19 · Ezek 27:32 · Ezek 29:19 · Ezek 47:10

6Her daughters who are in the field will be slain with the sword. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.’Cross-references: Jer 49:2 · Ezek 16:46 · Ezek 16:48 · Ezek 25:5 · Ezek 25:7 · Ezek 25:11 · +3 more

7“For the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I will bring on Tyre Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, from the north, with horses, with chariots, with horsemen, and an army with many people.Cross-references: Ezra 7:12 · Isa 10:8 · Jer 4:13 · Jer 6:23 · Jer 25:9 · Jer 25:22 · +15 more

8He will kill your daughters in the field with the sword. He will make forts against you, cast up a mound against you, and raise up the buckler against you.Cross-references: 2Sam 20:15 · Jer 6:6 · Jer 32:24 · Jer 52:4 · Ezek 21:22

9He will set his battering engines against your walls, and with his axes he will break down your towers.Cross-references: 2Chr 26:15

10By reason of the abundance of his horses, their dust will cover you. Your walls will shake at the noise of the horsemen, of the wagons, and of the chariots, when he enters into your gates, as men enter into a city which is broken open.Cross-references: Josh 6:5 · Josh 6:20 · Jer 4:13 · Jer 47:3 · Ezek 26:7 · Ezek 26:15 · +2 more

11He will tread down all your streets with the hoofs of his horses. He will kill your people with the sword. The pillars of your strength will go down to the ground.Cross-references: Isa 5:28 · Isa 26:5 · Jer 43:13 · Jer 51:27 · Hab 1:8

12They will make a plunder of your riches and make a prey of your merchandise. They will break down your walls and destroy your pleasant houses. They will lay your stones, your timber, and your dust in the middle of the waters.Cross-references: 2Chr 32:27 · 2Chr 36:10 · Isa 23:8 · Isa 23:11 · Isa 23:17 · Isa 32:12 · +12 more

13I will cause the noise of your songs to cease. The sound of your harps won’t be heard any more.Cross-references: Isa 5:12 · Isa 14:11 · Isa 22:2 · Isa 23:7 · Isa 23:16 · Isa 24:8 · +8 more

14I will make you a bare rock. You will be a place for the spreading of nets. You will be built no more; for I Yahweh have spoken it,’ says the Lord Yahweh.Cross-references: Num 23:19 · Deut 13:16 · Job 12:14 · Job 40:8 · Isa 14:27 · Ezek 5:13 · +10 more

15“The Lord Yahweh says to Tyre: ‘Won’t the islands shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, when the slaughter is made within you?Cross-references: Isa 2:19 · Jer 49:21 · Ezek 26:18 · Ezek 27:28 · Ezek 27:35 · Ezek 31:16 · +2 more

16Then all the princes of the sea will come down from their thrones, and lay aside their robes, and strip off their embroidered garments. They will clothe themselves with trembling. They will sit on the ground, and will tremble every moment, and be astonished at you.Cross-references: Ex 15:15 · Ex 33:4 · Job 2:12 · Job 8:22 · Ps 35:26 · Ps 109:18 · +17 more

17They will take up a lamentation over you, and tell you, “How you are destroyed, who were inhabited by seafaring men, the renowned city, who was strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, who caused their terror to be on all who lived there!”Cross-references: Josh 19:29 · 2Sam 1:19 · 2Sam 1:25 · Isa 14:12 · Isa 23:4 · Isa 23:8 · +17 more

18Now the islands will tremble in the day of your fall. Yes, the islands that are in the sea will be dismayed at your departure.’Cross-references: Isa 23:5 · Isa 23:10 · Isa 41:5 · Ezek 26:15 · Ezek 27:28 · Ezek 27:35

19“For the Lord Yahweh says: ‘When I make you a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited, when I bring up the deep on you, and the great waters cover you,Cross-references: Isa 8:7 · Ezek 26:3 · Dan 9:26 · Dan 11:40 · Rev 17:15

20then I will bring you down with those who descend into the pit, to the people of old time, and will make you dwell in the lower parts of the earth, in the places that are desolate of old, with those who go down to the pit, that you be not inhabited; and I will set glory in the land of the living.Cross-references: Num 16:30 · Num 16:33 · Job 30:3 · Ps 27:13 · Ps 28:1 · Ps 88:3 · +14 more

21I will make you a terror, and you will no more have any being. Though you are sought for, yet you will never be found again,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”Cross-references: Ps 37:36 · Jer 51:64 · Ezek 26:14 · Ezek 27:36 · Ezek 28:19 · Rev 18:21