17AND I WILL DO ON THEM VENGEANCE<S> GREAT WITH REBUKES OF RAGE AND THEY WILL KNOW THAT I [AM] YAHWEH WHEN HAVE PUT I <OBJ.> VENGEANCE MY ON THEM 17I will execute great vengeance against them with furious reproof. Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I lay My vengeance upon them.’”
1AND IT WAS IN ONE [PLUS] TEN YEAR ON [DAY] ONE OF THE MONTH IT CAME [THE] WORD OF YAHWEH TO ME <TO> SAYING A Prophecy against Tyre (Isaiah 23:1–18) 1In the eleventh month of the twelfth year,*NoteCloseLikely reading of the original Hebrew text; MT In the eleventh year on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
2O SON OF HUMANKIND BECAUSE THAT IT SAID TYRE ON JERUSALEM AHA! IT IS BROKEN [THE] DOORS OF THE PEOPLES IT HAS BEEN TURNED OVER TO ME I WILL BE FILLED IT HAS BEEN LAID WASTE 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<TO> THEREFORE THUS HE SAYS [THE] LORD YAHWEH HERE I [AM] ON YOU O TYRE AND I WILL BRING UP ON YOU NATIONS MANY AS BRINGS UP THE SEA <TO> WAVES ITS 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.
4AND THEY WILL DESTROY [THE] WALLS OF TYRE AND THEY WILL TEAR DOWN TOWERS ITS AND I WILL SCRAPE AWAY DUST ITS FROM IT AND I WILL MAKE <OBJ.> IT INTO BARENESS OF ROCK 4They will destroy the walls of Tyre and demolish her towers. I will scrape the soil from her and make her a bare rock.
5A SPREADING PLACE OF NETS IT WILL BE IN [THE] MIDDLE OF THE SEA FOR I I HAVE SPOKEN [THE] UTTERANCE OF [THE] LORD YAHWEH AND IT WILL BECOME <INTO> SPOIL FOR THE NATIONS 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,
6AND DAUGHTERS ITS WHICH [ARE] ON THE LAND WITH THE SWORD THEY WILL BE KILLED AND THEY WILL KNOW THAT I [AM] YAHWEH 6and the villages on her mainland will be slain by the sword. Then they will know that I am the LORD.’
7FOR THUS HE SAYS [THE] LORD YAHWEH HERE I [AM] ABOUT TO BRING AGAINST TYRE NEBUCHADNEZZAR [THE] KING OF BABYLON FROM [THE] NORTH [THE] KING OF KINGS WITH HORSE[S] AND WITH CHARIOTRY AND WITH HORSEMEN AND A COMPANY AND A PEOPLE NUMEROUS 7For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I will bring against Tyre from the north Nebuchadnezzar*NoteCloseHebrew Nebuchadrezzar, a variant of Nebuchadnezzar (king of Babylon). The latter spelling is used throughout Ezekiel for consistency. king of Babylon, king of kings, with horses and chariots, with cavalry and a great company of troops.
8DAUGHTERS YOUR ON THE LAND WITH THE SWORD HE WILL KILL AND HE WILL MAKE ON YOU A SIEGE-WALL AND HE WILL POUR OUT ON YOU A MOUND AND HE WILL RAISE UP ON YOU A BODY SHIELD 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.
9AND [THE] BLOW OF BATTERING-RAM HIS HE WILL SET ON WALLS YOUR AND TOWERS YOUR HE WILL BREAK DOWN WITH SWORDS HIS 9He will direct the blows of his battering rams against your walls and tear down your towers with his axes.
10FROM [THE] ABUNDANCE OF HORSES HIS IT WILL COVER YOU DUST THEIR FROM [THE] SOUND OF A HORSEMAN AND WHEEL[S] AND CHARIOT[S] THEY WILL SHAKE WALLS YOUR WHEN COMES HE IN GATES YOUR LIKE [THE] ENTERING<S> OF A CITY BROKEN INTO 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.
11WITH [THE] HOOVES OF HORSES HIS HE WILL TRAMPLE <OBJ.> ALL STREETS YOUR PEOPLE YOUR WITH THE SWORD HE WILL KILL AND [THE] PILLARS OF STRENGTH YOUR TO THE GROUND IT WILL COME DOWN 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.
12AND THEY WILL PLUNDER WEALTH YOUR AND THEY WILL TAKE AS SPOIL MERCHANDISE YOUR AND THEY WILL TEAR DOWN WALLS YOUR AND [THE] HOUSES OF DESIRE YOUR THEY WILL PULL DOWN AND STONES YOUR AND WOOD<S> YOUR AND DUST YOUR IN [THE] MIDST OF [THE] WATERS THEY WILL PUT 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.
13AND I WILL PUT AN END TO [THE] NOISE OF SONGS YOUR AND [THE] SOUND OF HARPS YOUR NOT IT WILL BE HEARD AGAIN 13So I will silence the sound of your songs, and the music of your lyres will no longer be heard.
14AND I WILL MAKE YOU INTO BARENESS OF ROCK A SPREADING PLACE OF NETS YOU WILL BE NOT YOU WILL BE BUILT AGAIN FOR I YAHWEH I HAVE SPOKEN [THE] UTTERANCE OF [THE] LORD YAHWEH 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.’
15THUS HE SAYS [THE] LORD YAHWEH TO TYRE ¿ NOT FROM [THE] SOUND OF DOWNFALL YOUR WHEN GROAN [THE] FATALLY WOUNDED WHEN IS KILLED A SLAUGHTER IN [THE] MIDST OF YOU WILL THEY QUAKE THE ISLANDS 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?
16AND THEY WILL GO DOWN FROM ON THRONES THEIR ALL [THE] PRINCES OF THE SEA AND THEY WILL REMOVE <OBJ.> ROBES THEIR AND <OBJ.> [THE] CLOTHES OF MULTICOLORED CLOTH THEIR THEY WILL STRIP OFF TREMBLING<S> THEY WILL BE CLOTHED ON THE GROUND THEY WILL SIT AND THEY WILL TREMBLE TO MOMENTS AND THEY WILL BE APPALLED ON YOU 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.
17AND THEY WILL TAKE UP ON YOU A LAMENTATION AND THEY WILL SAY TO YOU HOW! YOU HAVE PERISHED O INHABITED [CITY] FROM [THE] SEAS O CITY THAT <IT> WAS PRAISED WHICH IT WAS MIGHTY IN THE SEA IT AND INHABITANTS ITS WHICH THEY GAVE TERROR THEIR TO ALL INHABITANTS ITS 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!*NoteCloseOr on all her inhabitants
18NOW THEY WILL TREMBLE THE ISLANDS [THE] DAY OF DOWNFALL YOUR AND THEY WILL BE TERRIFIED THE ISLANDS WHICH [ARE] IN THE SEA <FROM> BECAUSE WENT OUT YOU 18Now the coastlands tremble on the day of your downfall; the islands in the sea are dismayed by your demise.”’
19FOR THUS HE SAYS [THE] LORD YAHWEH WHEN MAKE I <OBJ.> YOU A CITY DESOLATE LIKE <THE> CITIES WHICH NOT THEY ARE INHABITED WHEN BRING UP OVER YOU <OBJ.> [THE] DEEP AND THEY WILL COVER YOU THE WATERS <THE> MANY 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,
20AND I WILL SEND DOWN YOU WITH [THOSE WHO] HAVE GONE DOWN OF [THE] PIT TO A PEOPLE OF ANTIQUITY AND I WILL CAUSE TO DWELL YOU IN [THE] EARTH OF [THE] LOWEST PARTS LIKE WASTE PLACES FROM LONG AGO WITH [THOSE WHO] HAVE GONE DOWN OF [THE] PIT SO THAT NOT YOU WILL REMAIN AND I WILL PUT SPLENDOR IN [THE] LAND OF [THE] LIVING 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*NoteCloseLXX or take your place in the land of the living.
21TERRORS I WILL GIVE TO YOU AND THERE NOT [WILL BE] YOU SO YOU MAY BE SOUGHT AND NOT YOU WILL BE FOUND AGAIN FOR EVER [THE] UTTERANCE OF [THE] LORD YAHWEH 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.”