Ezekiel 26 (NET)

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Ezekiel 26:1¹In the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, the Lord’ s message came to me:Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 20:1 Ezek 1:2 Ezek 8:1 Jer 39:2

Ezekiel 26:2²“Son of man, because Tyre has said about Jerusalem, ‘Aha, the gateway of the peoples is broken; it has swung open to me. I will become rich, now that she has been destroyed,’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 23:1-18 Ezek 36:2 Jer 25:22 Joel 3:4 2 Sam 5:11 Amos 1:9-10 Ezek 25:10 Ezek 25:2-3 Ezek 25:6 Ezek 27:1-28

Ezekiel 26:3³therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: Look, I am against you, O Tyre! I will bring up many nations against you, as the sea brings up its waves.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 51:42 Isa 5:30 Ezek 27:32-34 Mic 4:11 Ezek 21:3 Ezek 27:26 Ezek 28:22 Ezek 38:3 Ezek 5:8 Jer 21:13

Ezekiel 26:4⁴They will destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers. I will scrape her soil from her and make her a bare rock.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Amos 1:10 Isa 23:11 Ezek 26:9 Ezek 24:7-8 Ezek 26:12 Jer 5:10 Lev 14:41-45 Zech 9:3

Ezekiel 26:5⁵She will be a place where fishing nets are spread, surrounded by the sea. For I have spoken, declares the Sovereign Lord. She will become plunder for the nations,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 29:19 Ezek 25:7 Ezek 26:19 Ezek 27:32 Ezek 47:10 Ezek 26:14

Ezekiel 26:6⁶and her daughters who are in the field will be slaughtered by the sword. Then they will know that I am the Lord.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 16:46 Ezek 26:8 Ezek 16:48 Ezek 25:11 Ezek 25:14 Ezek 25:17 Ezek 25:5 Ezek 25:7 Jer 49:2

Ezekiel 26:7⁷“For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: Take note that I am about to bring King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon, king of kings, against Tyre from the north, with horses, chariots, and horsemen, an army and hordes of people.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Dan 2:37 Ezra 7:12 Ezek 23:24 Nah 2:3-4 Hos 8:10 Isa 10:8 Jer 25:9 Jer 52:32 Dan 2:47 Ezek 32:11-12

Ezekiel 26:8⁸He will kill your daughters in the field with the sword. He will build a siege wall against you, erect a siege ramp against you, and raise a great shield against you.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 21:22 Jer 32:24 Jer 52:4 Jer 6:6 2 Sam 20:15

Ezekiel 26:9⁹He will direct the blows of his battering rams against your walls and tear down your towers with his weapons.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Chr 26:15

Ezekiel 26:10¹⁰He will cover you with the dust kicked up by his many horses. Your walls will shake from the noise of the horsemen, wheels, and chariots when he enters your gates like those who invade through a city’s broken walls.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 26:15 Ezek 27:28 Jer 47:3 Ezek 26:7 Jer 4:13 Josh 6:20 Josh 6:5 Nah 2:3-4

Ezekiel 26:11¹¹With his horses’ hooves he will trample all your streets. He will kill your people with the sword, and your strong pillars will tumble down to the ground.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 26:5 Isa 5:28 Hab 1:8 Jer 43:13 Jer 51:27

Ezekiel 26:12¹²They will steal your wealth and loot your merchandise. They will tear down your walls and destroy your luxurious homes. Your stones, your trees, and your soil he will throw into the water.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 23:8 2 Chr 32:27 Amos 5:11 Zech 9:3-4 2 Chr 36:10 Dan 11:8 Ezek 26:5 Ezek 27:3-36 Ezek 28:8 Hos 13:15

Ezekiel 26:14¹⁴I will make you a bare rock; you will be a place where fishing nets are spread. You will never be built again, for I, the Lord, have spoken, declares the Sovereign Lord.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 12:14 Mal 1:4 Deut 13:16 Ezek 26:4-5 Isa 14:27 Num 23:19 Ezek 17:21-24 Ezek 21:32 Ezek 22:14 Ezek 26:12

Ezekiel 26:15¹⁵“This is what the Sovereign Lord says to Tyre: Oh, how the coastlands will shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan at the massive slaughter in your midst!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 27:35 Jer 49:21 Ezek 26:18 Ezek 31:16 Ezek 27:28 Ezek 32:10 Heb 12:26-27 Isa 2:19

Ezekiel 26:16¹⁶All the princes of the sea will vacate their thrones. They will remove their robes and strip off their embroidered clothes; they will clothe themselves with trembling. They will sit on the ground; they will tremble continually and be shocked at what has happened to you.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 32:10 Hos 11:10 Job 8:22 Jonah 3:6 1 Pet 5:5 Isa 3:26 Ps 35:26 Dan 5:6 Exod 15:15 Exod 33:4-5

Ezekiel 26:17¹⁷They will sing this lament over you: “‘How you have perished—you have vanished from the seas, O renowned city, once mighty in the sea, she and her inhabitants, who spread their terror!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 14:12 Ezek 19:1 2 Sam 1:25-27 Ezek 19:14 Ezek 27:2-36 Ezek 32:16 Ezek 32:2 Isa 23:4 Rev 18:16-19 Rev 18:9-10

Ezekiel 26:18¹⁸Now the coastlands will tremble on the day of your fall; the coastlands by the sea will be terrified by your passing.’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 26:15 Isa 23:5-7 Ezek 27:28-30 Ezek 27:35 Isa 23:10-12 Isa 41:5

Ezekiel 26:19¹⁹“For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: When I make you desolate like the uninhabited cities, when I bring up the deep over you and the surging waters overwhelm you,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 26:3 Isa 8:7-8 Dan 11:40 Dan 9:26 Rev 17:15

Ezekiel 26:20²⁰then I will bring you down to bygone people, to be with those who descend to the Pit. I will make you live in the lower parts of the earth among the primeval ruins, with those who descend to the Pit, so that you will not be inhabited or stand in the land of the living.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Luke 10:15 Ps 27:13 Ezek 28:25-26 Ezek 32:18-32 Zech 2:8 Amos 9:2 Ezek 34:1-31 Ezek 39:25-29 Ezek 39:7 Isa 14:11-19

Ezekiel 26:21²¹I will bring terrors on you, and you will be no more! Though you are sought after, you will never be found again, declares the Sovereign Lord.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 27:36 Ezek 28:19 Rev 18:21 Ps 37:36 Ezek 26:14-16 Jer 51:64

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