Ezekiel 26 Free Bible Version
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1 On the first day of the month of the eleventh year, a message from the Lord came to me, saying,
1 In the eleventh year, in the first of the month, Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
2 “Son of man, because Tyre said about Jerusalem, ‘Oh good! The trade gateway to the nations has been broken—it's swung wide open for me. Now that Jerusalem has been destroyed, I will be rich!’
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;’
3 this is why the Lord God says: Watch out, Tyre! I'm condemning you, and I will have many nations come and attack you, just like the sea that sends its waves crashing against the shore.
3 therefore 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.
4 They will destroy the walls of Tyre and tear down her towers. I will scrape off the soil that's on her and turn her into a bare rock.
4 They 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.
5 Out there in the sea she will be just a place for fishermen to spread their nets. I have spoken, declares the Lord God. Other nations will come and loot her,
5 She 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.
6 and the people living in her villages on the mainland will die by the sword. Then they will know that I am the Lord.
6 Her daughters who are in the field will be slain with the sword. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.’
7 For this is what the Lord God says: Watch as I bring Nebuchadnezzar, king of kings, to attack Tyre from the north. He will come with horses, chariots, cavalry, and a huge army.
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.
8 He will kill the people living in your villages of the mainland with the sword. He will construct siege works to attack you. He will build a ramp against your walls, and his soldiers will hold their shields above them as they advance on you.
8 He 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.
9 He will have his battering rams smash your walls and use his tools to demolish your towers.
9 He will set his battering engines against your walls, and with his axes he will break down your towers.
10 He will have so many horses you will be covered by the dust they throw up. When he comes in through your gates it will sound like an army charging into a defeated city. Your walls will shake from all the noise made by the cavalry, wagons, and chariots.
10 By 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.
11 His horses will race through your city streets. He will kill all your people with the sword. Your massive pillars will come tumbling to the ground.
11 He 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.
12 They will steal your wealth and loot your goods. They will knock down your walls, demolish the houses you love so much, and dump the debris and rubble into the sea.
12 They 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.
13 This is how I'm going to put a stop to your singing. The music of your harps won't be heard any longer.
13 I will cause the noise of your songs to cease. The sound of your harps won’t be heard any more.
14 I will turn you into a bare rock, and you will be just a place for fishermen to spread their nets. Tyre won't ever be rebuilt. I, the Lord, have spoken, declares the Lord God.
14 I 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.
15 This is what the Lord God says to the inhabitants of Tyre: Aren't the people of the coastlands going to shake in terror when they hear your city collapse, when the wounded groan at the killing inside your city?
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?
16 All the rulers of the coastlands will come down from their thrones, remove their royal robes, and take off their embroidered clothes. Instead they will be clothed with terror and sit on the ground, trembling the whole time, shocked at what's happened to you.
16 Then 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.
17 Then they will sing a funeral song for you, saying, ‘You've been destroyed so completely, famous city! You once ruled the sea—you and your people terrified everyone else!
17 They 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!”
18 Now the people of the coastlands tremble at your defeat, while those in the islands of the sea are horrified at your downfall.’
18 Now the islands will tremble in the day of your fall. Yes, the islands that are in the sea will be dismayed at your departure.’
19 For this is what the Lord God says: I will turn you into a ruin just like other uninhabited cities. I will have the sea rise up to cover you with deep water.
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,
20 I will bring you down with those who are headed to the grave to join people from long ago. I will make you live under the earth like the ruins of the past together with those who have gone down into the grave, so that no one will live in you and you won't have any place in the land of the living.
20 then 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.
21 I will turn you into something horrific, and you won't exist any longer. People will look for you, but won't ever find you, declares the Lord God.”
21 I 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 (21)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Ezekiel 20:1; Jeremiah 39:2; Ezekiel 1:2; Ezekiel 8:1
- 2 Isaiah 23:1–18; Ezekiel 36:2; Joel 3:4; Jeremiah 25:22; Amos 1:9–10
- 3 Jeremiah 51:42; Isaiah 5:30; Micah 4:11; Ezekiel 27:32–34; Ezekiel 38:3
- 4 Amos 1:10; Isaiah 23:11; Ezekiel 26:9; Zechariah 9:3; Leviticus 14:41–45
- 5 Ezekiel 29:19; Ezekiel 27:32; Ezekiel 26:19; Ezekiel 25:7; Ezekiel 47:10
- 6 Ezekiel 16:46; Ezekiel 26:8; Ezekiel 25:5; Jeremiah 49:2; Ezekiel 25:7
- 7 Daniel 2:37; Ezra 7:12; Nahum 2:3–4; Ezekiel 23:24; Jeremiah 52:32
- 8 Ezekiel 21:22; Jeremiah 6:6; Jeremiah 32:24; Jeremiah 52:4; 2 Samuel 20:15
- 9 2 Chronicles 26:15
- 10 Ezekiel 27:28; Jeremiah 47:3; Ezekiel 26:15; Joshua 6:5; Jeremiah 4:13
- 11 Isaiah 5:28; Isaiah 26:5; Habakkuk 1:8; Jeremiah 43:13; Jeremiah 51:27
- 12 Isaiah 23:8; Zechariah 9:3–4; 2 Chronicles 32:27; Amos 5:11; Isaiah 32:12
- 13 Isaiah 23:16; Jeremiah 7:34; Isaiah 14:11; Isaiah 24:8–9; Jeremiah 16:9
- 14 Job 12:14; Malachi 1:4; Numbers 23:19; Isaiah 14:27; Deuteronomy 13:16
- 15 Ezekiel 27:35; Jeremiah 49:21; Ezekiel 26:18; Ezekiel 31:16; Hebrews 12:26–27
- 16 Ezekiel 32:10; Hosea 11:10; Job 8:22; Jonah 3:6; Psalm 35:26
- 17 Isaiah 14:12; Ezekiel 19:1; 2 Samuel 1:25–27; Ezekiel 19:14; Revelation 18:9–10
- 18 Isaiah 23:5–7; Ezekiel 26:15; Isaiah 41:5; Ezekiel 27:28–30; Ezekiel 27:35
- 19 Ezekiel 26:3; Isaiah 8:7–8; Revelation 17:15; Daniel 11:40; Daniel 9:26
- 20 Psalm 27:13; Luke 10:15; Ezekiel 32:18–32; Zechariah 2:8; Ezekiel 28:25–26
- 21 Ezekiel 27:36; Revelation 18:21; Ezekiel 28:19; Psalm 37:36; Ezekiel 26:14–16
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