1And it came to pass in the eleventh year , in the first day of the month , that the word of Jehovah came unto me , saying , 2Son of man , because that Tyre hath said against Jerusalem , Aha , she is broken that was the gate of the peoples ; she is turned unto me ; I shall be replenished , now that she is laid waste : 3therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah , Behold , I am against thee, O Tyre , and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth its waves to come up . 4And they shall destroy the walls of Tyre , and break down her towers : I will also scrape her dust from her , and make her a bare rock . 5She shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea ; for I have spoken it , saith the Lord Jehovah ; and she shall become a spoil to the nations . 6And her daughters that are in the field shall be slain with the sword : and they shall know that I am Jehovah .
The Siege of Tyre
7For thus saith the Lord Jehovah : Behold , I will bring upon Tyre Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, king of kings , from the north , with horses , and with chariots , and with horsemen , and a company , and much people . 8He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field ; and he shall make forts against thee , and cast up a mound against thee , and raise up the buckler against thee . 9And he shall set his battering engines against thy walls , and with his axes he shall break down thy towers . 10By 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 wagons , and of the chariots , when he shall enter into thy gates , as men enter into a city wherein is made a breach . 11With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all thy streets ; he shall slay thy people with the sword ; and the pillars of thy strength shall go down to the ground. 12And 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 waters .
The Aftermath of Destruction
13And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease ; and the sound of thy harps shall be no more heard . 14And I will make thee a bare rock ; thou shalt be a place for the spreading of nets ; thou shalt be built no more : for I Jehovah have spoken it , saith the Lord Jehovah . 15Thus saith the Lord Jehovah to Tyre : shall not the isles shake at the sound of thy fall , when the wounded groan, when the slaughter is made in the midst of thee? 16Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones , and lay aside their robes , and strip off their broidered garments: they shall clothe themselves with trembling ; they shall sit upon the ground, and shall tremble every moment , and be astonished at thee. 17And they shall take up a lamentation over thee , and say to thee , How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited by seafaring men , the renowned city , that was strong in the sea , she and her inhabitants , that caused their terror to be on all that dwelt there ! 18Now shall the isles tremble in the day of thy fall ; yea, the isles that are in the sea shall be dismayed at thy departure . 19For thus saith the Lord Jehovah : 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 the great waters shall cover thee ; 20then will I bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, to the people of old time , and will make thee to dwell in the nether parts of the earth, in the places that are desolate of old , with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited ; and I will set glory in the land of the living . 21I will make thee a terror , and thou shalt no more have any being ; though thou be sought for , yet shalt thou never be found again , saith the Lord Jehovah .