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    Ezekiel 26

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    Tyre is promised a most peculiar disappearance: first a city stripped to bare rock, then a place for fishing nets, and finally somewhere people will seek without ever finding.

    Aha, and then the seavv. 1–14

    The word comes with Tyre’s own cheerful little calculation: Jerusalem has fallen, the gate to the nations is open, and Tyre will be filled. The answer is not admiration. Many nations will come against Tyre like waves, while Nebuchadnezzar arrives from Babylon with horses, chariots, cavalry, siege works, battering rams, axes, and enough dust to cover everything. The walls fall, the merchandise is plundered, the handsome houses are dismantled, and even the stones and timber are thrown into the water. The grand finale is gloriously ordinary: bare rock, fishing nets, and no more songs or lyres.

    The princes leave their thronesvv. 15–18

    Tyre’s downfall is loud enough to shake the coastlands. The princes of the sea respond with an elaborate change of costume: down from their thrones, off with the robes, off with the embroidered garments, and onto the ground in terror. Their lament remembers Tyre as a city of renown, inhabited by seafaring men and powerful on the sea; now even the islands are dismayed. It is a remarkably formal performance of shock, with the wardrobe department fully involved.

    Sought, but never foundvv. 19–21

    The last movement takes Tyre below the inhabited world. The deep rises, the mighty waters cover it, and Tyre is brought down with those who descend to the Pit, among ancient ruins and the people of antiquity. The final sentence is colder than the earlier battering rams: Tyre will be an object of horror, will be no more, and may be sought—but the search will end in empty hands.

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    1. Ezek 26:1In the eleventh month of the twelfth year, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

    2. Ezek 26:2“Son of man, because Tyre has said of Jerusalem, ‘Aha! The gate to the nations is broken; it has swung open to me; now that she lies in ruins I will be filled,’

    3. Ezek 26:3therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, O Tyre, I am against you, and I will raise up many nations against you, as the sea brings up its waves.

    4. Ezek 26:4They will destroy the walls of Tyre and demolish her towers. I will scrape the soil from her and make her a bare rock.

    5. Ezek 26:5She will become a place to spread nets in the sea, for I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD. She will become plunder for the nations,

    6. Ezek 26:6and the villages on her mainland will be slain by the sword. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’

    7. Ezek 26:7For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I will bring against Tyre from the north Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, with horses and chariots, with cavalry and a great company of troops.

    8. Ezek 26:8He will slaughter the villages of your mainland with the sword; he will set up siege works against you, build a ramp to your walls, and raise his shields against you.

    9. Ezek 26:9He will direct the blows of his battering rams against your walls and tear down your towers with his axes.

    10. Ezek 26:10His multitude of horses will cover you in their dust. When he enters your gates as an army entering a breached city, your walls will shake from the noise of cavalry, wagons, and chariots.

    11. Ezek 26:11The hooves of his horses will trample all your streets. He will slaughter your people with the sword, and your mighty pillars will fall to the ground.

    12. Ezek 26:12They will plunder your wealth and pillage your merchandise. They will demolish your walls, tear down your beautiful homes, and throw your stones and timber and soil into the water.

    13. Ezek 26:13So I will silence the sound of your songs, and the music of your lyres will no longer be heard.

    14. Ezek 26:14I will make you a bare rock, and you will become a place to spread the fishing nets. You will never be rebuilt, for I, the LORD, have spoken, declares the Lord GOD.’

    15. Ezek 26:15This is what the Lord GOD says to Tyre: ‘Will not the coastlands quake at the sound of your downfall, when the wounded groan at the slaughter in your midst?

    16. Ezek 26:16All the princes of the sea will descend from their thrones, remove their robes, and strip off their embroidered garments. Clothed with terror, they will sit on the ground, trembling every moment, appalled over you.

    17. Ezek 26:17Then they will lament for you, saying, “How you have perished, O city of renown inhabited by seafaring men—she who was powerful on the sea, along with her people, who imposed terror on all peoples!

    18. Ezek 26:18Now the coastlands tremble on the day of your downfall; the islands in the sea are dismayed by your demise.”’

    19. Ezek 26:19For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘When I make you a desolate city like other deserted cities, and when I raise up the deep against you so that the mighty waters cover you,

    20. Ezek 26:20then I will bring you down with those who descend to the Pit, to the people of antiquity. I will make you dwell in the earth below like the ancient ruins, with those who descend to the Pit, so that you will no longer be inhabited or set in splendor in the land of the living.

    21. Ezek 26:21I will make you an object of horror, and you will be no more. You will be sought, but will never be found,’ declares the Lord GOD.”

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    • 7Ezra 7:12Artaxerxes, king of kings. To Ezra the priest, the scribe of the Law of the God of heaven: Greetings.
    • 7Daniel 2:37You, O king, are the king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given sovereignty, power, strength, and glory.
    • 3Jeremiah 51:42The sea has come up over Babylon; she is covered in turbulent waves.
    • 7Ezekiel 23:24They will come against you with a host of peoples, with weapons, chariots, and wagons. They will array themselves against you on every side with buckler and shield and helmet. I will delegate judgment to them, and they will punish you according to their own standards.
    • 7Nahum 2:3–4The shields of his mighty men are red; the valiant warriors are dressed in scarlet. The fittings of the chariots flash like fire on the day they are prepared, and the spears of cypress have been brandished.
    • 15Ezekiel 27:35All the people of the coastlands are appalled over you. Their kings shudder with fear; their faces are contorted.
    • 16Ezekiel 32:10I will cause many peoples to be appalled over you, and their kings will shudder in horror because of you when I brandish My sword before them. On the day of your downfall each of them will tremble every moment for his life.’
    • 17Isaiah 14:12How you have fallen from heaven, O day star, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, O destroyer of nations.
    • 21Ezekiel 27:36Those who trade among the nations hiss at you; you have come to a horrible end and will be no more.’”
    • 2Isaiah 23:1–18This is the burden against Tyre: Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for Tyre is laid waste, without house or harbor. Word has reached them from the land of Cyprus.
    • 3Isaiah 5:30In that day they will roar over it, like the roaring of the sea. If one looks over the land, he will see darkness and distress; even the light will be obscured by clouds.
    • 4Isaiah 23:11The LORD has stretched out His hand over the sea; He has made kingdoms tremble. He has given a command that the strongholds of Canaan be destroyed.
    • 4Amos 1:10So I will send fire upon the walls of Tyre to consume its citadels.”
    • 5Ezekiel 29:19Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: I will give the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, who will carry off its wealth, seize its spoil, and remove its plunder. This will be the wages for his army.
    • 7Jeremiah 52:32And he spoke kindly to Jehoiachin and set his throne above the thrones of the other kings who were with him in Babylon.
    • 7Hosea 8:10Though they hire allies among the nations, I will now round them up, and they will begin to diminish under the oppression of the king of princes.

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