because of the day that is coming to destroy
    all (A)the Philistines,
to cut off from (B)Tyre and Sidon
    every helper that remains.
For the Lord is destroying the Philistines,
    (C)the remnant of the coastland of (D)Caphtor.

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“Are you not like (A)the Cushites to me,
    O people of Israel?” declares the Lord.
(B)“Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt,
    and (C)the Philistines from (D)Caphtor and the Syrians from (E)Kir?

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And the inhabitants of (A)this coastland will say in that day, ‘Behold, this is what has happened to those in whom we hoped and (B)to whom we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria! And we, how shall we escape?’”

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23 As for (A)the Avvim, who lived in villages as far as (B)Gaza, (C)the Caphtorim, who came from Caphtor, destroyed them and settled in their place.)

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I will cut off the inhabitants from (A)Ashdod,
    and him who holds the scepter from Ashkelon;
I will turn my hand against Ekron,
    and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish,”
says the Lord God.

Thus says the Lord:

(B)“For three transgressions of (C)Tyre,
    and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,
because they delivered up a whole people to Edom,
    and did not remember the covenant of brotherhood.
10 So I will send a fire upon the wall of (D)Tyre,
    and it shall devour her strongholds.”

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(A)The days of punishment have come;
    the days of recompense have come;
    Israel shall know it.
(B)The prophet is a fool;
    the man of the spirit is mad,
because of your great iniquity
    and great hatred.

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29 while (A)they see for you false visions, while they divine lies for you—to place you on the necks of the profane wicked, (B)whose day has come, the time of their final punishment.

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25 And you, O profane[a] (A)wicked one, prince of Israel, (B)whose day has come, (C)the time of your final punishment,

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 21:25 Or slain; also verse 29

12 (A)The time has come; the day has arrived. Let not (B)the buyer rejoice, nor (C)the seller mourn, (D)for wrath is upon all their multitude.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 7:12 Or abundance; also verses 13, 14

“Thus says the Lord God: Disaster (A)after disaster![a] Behold, it comes. (B)An end has come; the end has come; it has awakened against you. Behold, it comes. (C)Your doom[b] has come to you, O inhabitant of the land. (D)The time has come; the day is near, a day of tumult, and not (E)of joyful shouting on the mountains.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 7:5 Some Hebrew manuscripts (compare Syriac, Targum); most Hebrew manuscripts Disaster! A unique disaster!
  2. Ezekiel 7:7 The meaning of the Hebrew word is uncertain; also verse 10

10 (A)That day is the day of the Lord God of hosts,
    (B)a day of vengeance,
    (C)to avenge himself on his foes.
(D)The sword shall devour and be sated
    and drink its fill of their blood.
For the Lord God of hosts holds (E)a sacrifice
    (F)in the north country (G)by the river Euphrates.

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13 but the Lord (A)laughs at the wicked,
    for he sees that his (B)day is coming.

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22 for these are (A)days of (B)vengeance, to fulfill (C)all that is written.

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(A)and on Hamath also, which borders on it,
    (B)Tyre and (C)Sidon, though (D)they are very wise.
Tyre has built herself (E)a rampart
    and (F)heaped up silver like dust,
    and fine gold like the mud of the streets.
But behold, the Lord will strip her of her possessions
    and strike down (G)her power on the sea,
    and (H)she shall be devoured by fire.

(I)Ashkelon shall see it, and be afraid;
    Gaza too, and shall writhe in anguish;
    Ekron also, because its hopes are confounded.
The king shall perish from Gaza;
    Ashkelon shall be uninhabited;

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“What are you to me, (A)O Tyre and Sidon, and all (B)the regions of Philistia? Are you paying me back for something? If you are paying me back, (C)I will return your payment on your own head swiftly and speedily. For (D)you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried my rich treasures into your temples.[a] You have sold (E)the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks in order to remove them far from their own border. Behold, I will stir them up from the place to which you have sold them, and (F)I will return your payment on your own head. I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the (G)Sabeans, to a nation far away, for the Lord has spoken.”

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 3:5 Or palaces

(A)Then they will know that I am the Lord,
    when (B)I have set fire to Egypt,
    and (C)all her helpers are broken.

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Prophecy Against Tyre

26 (A)In the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me: (B)“Son of man, because (C)Tyre said concerning Jerusalem, (D)‘Aha, the gate of the peoples is broken; it has swung open to me. I shall be replenished, now that she is laid waste,’ therefore thus says the Lord God: (E)Behold, I am against you, O Tyre, and will bring up (F)many nations against you, (G)as the sea brings up its waves. They shall destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers, and I will scrape her soil from her and (H)make her a bare rock. She (I)shall be in the midst of the sea a place for the spreading of nets, (J)for I have spoken, declares the Lord God. And she shall become plunder for the nations, and her daughters on the mainland shall be killed by the sword. (K)Then they will know that I am the Lord.

“For thus says the Lord God: (L)Behold, I will bring against Tyre (M)from the north Nebuchadnezzar[a] king of Babylon, (N)king of kings, with horses and chariots, and with horsemen and a host of many soldiers. He will kill with the sword (O)your daughters on the mainland. (P)He will set up a siege wall against you and throw up a mound against you, and raise (Q)a roof of shields against you. (R)He will direct the shock of his battering rams against your walls, and with his axes he will break down your towers. 10 His horses will be so many that their dust will cover you. Your walls will shake at the noise of the horsemen and wagons and chariots, when he enters your gates as men enter a city that has been breached. 11 With the hoofs of his horses he will trample all your streets. He will kill your people with the sword, and your mighty pillars will fall to the ground. 12 They will plunder (S)your riches and loot (T)your merchandise. They will break down your walls and destroy your pleasant houses. Your stones and timber and (U)soil they will cast into the midst of the waters. 13 (V)And I will stop the music of your songs, and (W)the sound of your lyres shall be heard no more. 14 (X)I will make you a bare rock. (Y)You shall be a place for the spreading of nets. You shall never be rebuilt, (Z)for I am the Lord; I have spoken, declares the Lord God.

15 “Thus says the Lord God to Tyre: Will not (AA)the coastlands shake at the sound of your fall, (AB)when the wounded groan, when slaughter is made in your midst? 16 Then all (AC)the princes of the sea will step down from their thrones and (AD)remove their robes and strip off their embroidered garments. They will clothe themselves with trembling; (AE)they will sit on the ground and (AF)tremble every moment and (AG)be appalled at you. 17 And they will (AH)raise a lamentation over you and say to you,

“‘How you have perished,
    you who were inhabited from the seas,
O city renowned,
    (AI)who was mighty on the sea;
she and her inhabitants (AJ)imposed their terror
    on all her inhabitants!
18 Now the coastlands tremble
    on the day of your fall,
and the coastlands that are on the sea
    are dismayed at your passing.’

19 “For thus says the Lord God: When I make you a city laid waste, like the cities that are not inhabited, (AK)when I bring up the deep over you, and the great waters cover you, 20 then (AL)I will make you go down with those who go down to the pit, to the people of old, and I will make you to dwell in the world below, among ruins from of old, (AM)with those who go down to the pit, so that you will not be inhabited; but I will set beauty (AN)in the land of the living. 21 I will bring you (AO)to a dreadful end, and you shall be no more. (AP)Though you be sought for, you will never be found again, declares the Lord God.”

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 26:7 Hebrew Nebuchadrezzar; so throughout Ezekiel

16 therefore thus says the Lord God, (A)Behold, I will stretch out my hand against the Philistines, and I will cut off (B)the Cherethites and destroy the rest of the seacoast.

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20 and (A)all the mixed tribes among them; all the kings of (B)the land of Uz and all the kings of (C)the land of the Philistines ((D)Ashkelon, (E)Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of (F)Ashdod); 21 (G)Edom, (H)Moab, and the sons of (I)Ammon; 22 all the kings of (J)Tyre, all the kings of (K)Sidon, and the kings of the coastland across (L)the sea;

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(A)“And the Assyrian shall fall by a sword, not of man;
    and a sword, not of man, shall devour him;
and he shall flee from the sword,
    and his young men shall be (B)put to forced labor.

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An Oracle Concerning Tyre and Sidon

23 The (A)oracle concerning (B)Tyre.

Wail, O (C)ships of Tarshish,
    for Tyre is laid waste, (D)without house or harbor!
From (E)the land of Cyprus[a]
    it is revealed to them.
Be still, O inhabitants of the coast;
    the merchants of (F)Sidon, who cross the sea, have filled you.
And on many waters
your revenue was the grain of Shihor,
    the harvest of the Nile;
    you were (G)the merchant of the nations.
Be ashamed, O (H)Sidon, for the sea has spoken,
    the stronghold of the sea, saying:
“I have neither labored nor given birth,
    I have neither reared young men
    nor brought up young women.”
When the report comes to Egypt,
    they will be in anguish[b] over the report about Tyre.
(I)Cross over to Tarshish;
    wail, O inhabitants of the coast!
Is this your exultant city
    (J)whose origin is from days of old,
whose feet carried her
    to settle far away?
Who has purposed this
    against Tyre, the bestower of crowns,
whose merchants were princes,
    whose traders were the honored of the earth?
The Lord of hosts has purposed it,
    (K)to defile the pompous pride of all glory,[c]
    to dishonor all the honored of the earth.
10 Cross over your land like the Nile,
    O daughter of Tarshish;
    there is no restraint anymore.
11 (L)He has stretched out his hand over the sea;
    he has shaken the kingdoms;
the Lord has given command concerning Canaan
    to destroy its strongholds.
12 And he said:
“You will no more exult,
    O oppressed virgin daughter of (M)Sidon;
arise, (N)cross over to (O)Cyprus,
    even there you will have no rest.”

13 Behold the land of (P)the Chaldeans! This is the people that was not;[d] Assyria destined it for wild beasts. They erected (Q)their siege towers, they stripped her palaces bare, they made her a ruin.

14 (R)Wail, O ships of Tarshish,
    for your stronghold is laid waste.

15 In that day Tyre will be forgotten for (S)seventy years, like the days[e] of one king. At the end of (T)seventy years, it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the prostitute:

16 “Take a harp;
    go about the city,
    O forgotten prostitute!
Make sweet melody;
    sing many songs,
    that you may be remembered.”

17 At the end of (U)seventy years, the Lord will visit Tyre, and she will return to her wages and (V)will prostitute herself with all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth. 18 Her merchandise and her wages will be holy to the Lord. It will not be stored or hoarded, but her merchandise will supply abundant food and fine clothing for those who dwell before the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 23:1 Hebrew Kittim; also verse 12
  2. Isaiah 23:5 Hebrew they will have labor pains
  3. Isaiah 23:9 The Hebrew words for glory and hosts sound alike
  4. Isaiah 23:13 Or that has become nothing
  5. Isaiah 23:15 Or lifetime

What will you do on (A)the day of punishment,
    in the ruin that will come (B)from afar?
To whom will you flee for help,
    and where will you leave your wealth?

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13 “God will not turn back his anger;
    beneath him bowed the helpers of (A)Rahab.

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12 Pathrusim, Casluhim (from whom the Philistines came), and Caphtorim.

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30 When (A)Phinehas the priest and the chiefs of the congregation, the heads of the families of Israel who were with him, heard the words that the people of Reuben and the people of Gad and the people of Manasseh spoke, (B)it was good in their eyes.

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