10. His horses will be so many that they will cover you with their dust. Your walls will shake at the noise of horsemen, wagons and chariots. The king of Babylon will enter your city gates. He will enter as men enter a city where the walls are broken through.
11. The hooves of his horses will run over your streets. He will kill your people with the sword. Your strong pillars will fall down to the ground.
12. Also, his men will take away your riches. They will steal the things you sell. They will break down your walls and destroy your nice houses. They will throw your stones, wood and trash into the sea.
13. So I will stop your songs. The music of your harps will not be heard anymore.
14. I will make you a bare rock. You will be a place for drying fishing nets. You will not be built again. This is because I, the Lord, have spoken, says the Lord God.
15. “This is what the Lord God says to Tyre: The people who live along the seacoast will shake with fear when they hear your defeat. Those of you who are injured and dying will groan.
16. Then all the leaders of the seacoast will go down from their thrones. They will take off their beautiful needlework clothes. They will clothe themselves with fear. They will sit on the ground. They will shake with fear all the time. They will be shocked when they see you.
17. They will begin singing a funeral song about you. They will say to you:‘Tyre, you famous city, you have been destroyed!Once seamen lived in you.You and your peoplehad great power on the seas.All the people around youwere afraid of you.
18. Now the people who live by the coastwill shake with fear on the day you fall.The islands of the seawill be afraid because you have been defeated.’