1. In the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me:
2. “Son of man, because Tyre said concerning Jerusalem, ‘Aha, the gate of the peoples is broken; it has swung open to me. I shall be replenished, now that she is laid waste,’
3. therefore thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against you, O Tyre, and will bring up many nations against you, as the sea brings up its waves.
4. They shall destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers, and I will scrape her soil from her and make her a bare rock.
5. She shall be in the midst of the sea a place for the spreading of nets, for I have spoken, declares the Lord God. And she shall become plunder for the nations,