1 En in die elfde jaar, op die eerste van die maand, het die woord van die HERE tot my gekom en gesê:

2 Mensekind, omdat Tirus oor Jerusalem geroep het: Ha, ha! die poort van die volke is gebreek, dit is na my toe gedraai; ,k sal vol word, dit is verwoes --

3 daarom, so sê die Here HERE: Kyk, Ek het dit teen jou, o Tirus! en Ek laat baie nasies teen jou optrek soos die see sy golwe laat optrek.

4 Hulle sal die mure van Tirus verwoes en sy torings afbreek; ja, Ek sal sy puin van hom af wegvee en hom 'n kaal rots maak.

5 Hy sal binne-in die see 'n droogmaakplek van nette wees; want Ek het dit gesê, spreek die Here HERE; en hy sal 'n buit vir die nasies wees.

6 En sy dogters wat op die land is, sal met die swaard gedood word; en hulle sal weet dat Ek die HERE is.

7 Want so sê die Here HERE: Kyk, Ek laat Nebukadr,sar, die koning van Babel, die koning van die konings, van die noorde af teen Tirus kom, met perde en strydwaens en ruiters en 'n menigte en baie mense.

8 Hy sal jou dogters op die land met die swaard doodmaak en forte teen jou opstel en 'n wal teen jou opwerp en die skilddak teen jou oprig.

9 En hy sal die stoot van sy stormram teen jou mure rig en jou torings met sy breekysters afbreek.

10 Vanweë die menigte van sy perde sal hulle stofwolk jou oordek; jou mure sal bewe vanweë die gedruis van ruiters en wiele en strydwaens as hy deur jou poorte intrek, soos 'n mens indring in 'n stad wat oopgebreek is.

11 Hy sal met die hoewe van sy perde al jou strate vertrap; jou mense sal hy met die swaard doodmaak, en jou trotse klippilare sal op die grond val.

12 En hulle sal jou rykdom buitmaak en jou koopware roof en jou mure afbreek en jou kosbare huise omgooi; en hulle sal jou klippe en jou houte en jou puin in die water slinger.

13 En Ek sal die geruis van jou liedere laat ophou, en die klank van jou siters sal nie meer gehoor word nie.

14 Ja, Ek sal jou 'n kaal rots maak, 'n droogmaakplek van nette sal jy wees en nooit herbou word nie; want Ek, die HERE, het dit gesê, spreek die Here HERE.

15 So sê die Here HERE aan Tirus: Sal die kuslande nie bewe van die geluid van jou val, as die gewondes kerm, as hulle 'n moord in jou aanrig nie?

16 Dan sal al die vorste van die see van hulle trone afklim en hulle mantels afhaal en hulle veelkleurige klere uittrek; met siddering sal hulle beklee word, op die grond sal hulle sit en elke oomblik sidder en oor jou verbaas wees.

17 En hulle sal 'n klaaglied oor jou aanhef en vir jou sê: Hoe het jy vergaan wat bewoon was uit die seë, hoog geroemde stad; wat sterk was deur die see, hy en sy inwoners, wat die skrik vir hulle ingeboesem het by al die kusbewoners.

18 Nou sal die kuslande sidder op die dag van jou val; en die kuslande wat aan die see is, sal verskrik word oor jou uiteinde.

19 Want so sê die Here HERE: As Ek jou 'n verwoeste stad maak, soos die stede wat nie bewoon is nie; as Ek die watervloed oor jou laat opkom en die groot waters jou oordek;

20 dan sal Ek jou laat neerdaal saam met die wat in die kuil neerdaal, na die mense van die voortyd; en Ek sal jou laat woon in die onderste plekke van die aarde, in ewige woestenye, saam met die wat in die kuil neergedaal het, sodat jy nie bewoon word nie; en Ek sal heerlikheid gee in die land van die lewendes.

21 Maar jou sal Ek tot 'n voorwerp van verskrikking maak, en jy sal daar nie wees nie; jy sal gesoek word, maar vir ewig nie meer gevind word nie, spreek die Here HERE.

1 And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first day of the month, that the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying, 2 Son of man, because that Tyre hath said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken that was the gate of the peoples; she is turned unto me; I shall be replenished, now that she is laid waste: 3 therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I am against thee, O Tyre, and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth its waves to come up. 4 And they shall destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her a bare rock. 5 She shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea; for I have spoken it, saith the Lord Jehovah; and she shall become a spoil to the nations. 6 And her daughters that are in the field shall be slain with the sword: and they shall know that I am Jehovah.

7 For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will bring upon Tyre Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, from the north, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and a company, and much people. 8 He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field; and he shall make forts against thee, and cast up a mound against thee, and raise up the buckler against thee. 9 And he shall set his battering engines against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers. 10 By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover thee: thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen, and of the wagons, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into thy gates, as men enter into a city wherein is made a breach. 11 With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all thy streets; he shall slay thy people with the sword; and the pillars of thy strength shall go down to the ground. 12 And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise; and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses; and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the waters. 13 And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy harps shall be no more heard. 14 And I will make thee a bare rock; thou shalt be a place for the spreading of nets; thou shalt be built no more: for I Jehovah have spoken it, saith the Lord Jehovah.

15 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah to Tyre: shall not the isles shake at the sound of thy fall, when the wounded groan, when the slaughter is made in the midst of thee? 16 Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and lay aside their robes, and strip off their broidered garments: they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit upon the ground, and shall tremble every moment, and be astonished at thee. 17 And they shall take up a lamentation over thee, and say to thee, How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited by seafaring men, the renowned city, that was strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, that caused their terror to be on all that dwelt there! 18 Now shall the isles tremble in the day of thy fall; yea, the isles that are in the sea shall be dismayed at thy departure.

19 For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: When I shall make thee a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep upon thee, and the great waters shall cover thee; 20 then will I bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, to the people of old time, and will make thee to dwell in the nether parts of the earth, in the places that are desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I will set glory in the land of the living. 21 I will make thee a terror, and thou shalt no more have any being; though thou be sought for, yet shalt thou never be found again, saith the Lord Jehovah.