Ezekiel 26

1-21 Proclamation against Tyre

• In the 11th year, 1st day of the month… Ezekiel does get some respite between proclamations of condemnation. The last date mentioned was the 9th year (of Jehoichin’s captivity).
• Because Tyre was so eager to take advantage of Israel’s weakness, I will set many nations against it who will destroy its walls and scrape its soil so that it will become a bare rock upon which fishing nets will be spread.
• Then they shall know that I am the LORD.
• Nebuchadnezzar will come with his mighty army and
• set up a siege wall with a camp outside
• batter the walls down
• cover you with the dust of his horses
• trample your streets and put your people to the sword
• “they” [*the other nations?] will
• plunder your riches,
• destroy your fine houses,
• cast your stones and timber into the water
• I will
  • silence your songs
  • make you a bare rock, a place for spreading nets. God wants to make sure Tyre knows that, although other nations are his instrument, this is his doing.
• You will never again be rebuilt, for I the LORD have spoken.
• The coastlands shall shake at the sound of your fall, and all the princes of the sea will remove their robes and clothes themselves with trembling.
• They will lament: How have you vanished? The coastlands are dismayed at your passing.
• Thus says the Lord GOD: When I bring up the deep over you, I will thrust you down into the Pit [the grave], so that you will never again be inhabited.
• You will no longer be sought; you will never again be found.

*Note: For more information about the downfall of Tyre and Ezekiel’s prophecy, in particular, see the Apologetics Press article, Tyre in Prophecy, by Kyle Butt.