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In the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, the word of the
"Aha, broken is the gateway of the peoples;
it has swung open to me;
I shall be replenished,
now that it is wasted,"
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therefore, thus says the Lord
See, I am against you, O Tyre!
I will hurl many nations against you,
as the sea hurls its waves.
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They shall destroy the walls of Tyre
and break down its towers.
I will scrape its soil from it
and make it a bare rock.
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It shall become, in the midst of the sea,
a place for spreading nets.
I have spoken, says the Lord
It shall become plunder for the nations,
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and its daughter-towns in the country
shall be killed by the sword.
Then they shall know that I am the
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For thus says the Lord
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Your daughter-towns in the country
he shall put to the sword.
He shall set up a siege wall against you,
cast up a ramp against you,
and raise a roof of shields against you.
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He shall direct the shock of his battering rams against your walls
and break down your towers with his axes.
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His horses shall be so many
that their dust shall cover you.
At the noise of cavalry, wheels, and chariots
your very walls shall shake,
when he enters your gates
like those entering a breached city.
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With the hoofs of his horses
he shall trample all your streets.
He shall put your people to the sword,
and your strong pillars shall fall to the ground.
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They will plunder your riches
and loot your merchandise;
they shall break down your walls
and destroy your fine houses.
Your stones and timber and soil
they shall cast into the water.
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I will silence the music of your songs;
the sound of your lyres shall be heard no more.
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I will make you a bare rock;
you shall be a place for spreading nets.
You shall never again be rebuilt,
for I the
says the Lord
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Thus says the Lord
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And they shall raise a lamentation over you, and say to you:
How you have vanished 1 from the seas,
O city renowned,
once mighty on the sea,
you and your inhabitants, 2
who imposed your 3 terror
on all the mainland! 4
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Now the coastlands tremble
on the day of your fall;
the coastlands by the sea
are dismayed at your passing.
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For thus says the Lord