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Chapter 26 |
| 1 | And it came to
pass in the eleventh year, in the first day of the month, that the word of the
LORD came unto me, saying, |
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2 | Son of man, because that Tyrus hath
said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken that was the gates of the people:
she is turned unto me: I shall be replenished, now she is laid waste:
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| 3 | Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Tyrus,
and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth his
waves to come up. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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And he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with
his axes he shall break down thy towers. |
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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. |
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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. |
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| 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? |
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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. |
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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; |
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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; |
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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. |
