Ezekiel 26:4 “They will destroy the walls of Tyre and demolish her towers. I will sc…”

Ezekiel 26:4

They will destroy the walls of Tyre and demolish her towers. I will scrape the soil from her and make her a bare rock.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock.

World English Bible

They will destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down her towers. I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her a bare rock.

American Standard Version

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

And they shall destroy the walles of Tyrus and breake downe her towres: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rocke.

Darby Translation

And they shall destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down her towers. And I will scrape her dust from her, and make her a bare rock.

Young's Literal Translation

And they have destroyed the walls of Tyre, And they have broken down her towers, And I have scraped her dust from her, And made her for a clear place of a rock.

Bible in Basic English

And they will give the walls of Tyre to destruction and have its towers broken: and I will take even her dust away from her, and make her an uncovered rock

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Cross references

“destroy”

Isaiah 23:11 Amos 1:10 Ezekiel 26:9 Jeremiah 5:10 Zechariah 9:3

Isaiah 23:11 · BSB

The LORD has stretched out His hand over the sea; He has made kingdoms tremble. He has given a command that the strongholds of Canaan be destroyed.

Amos 1:10 · BSB

So I will send fire upon the walls of Tyre to consume its citadels.”

Ezekiel 26:9 · BSB

He will direct the blows of his battering rams against your walls and tear down your towers with his axes.

Jeremiah 5:10 · BSB

Go up through her vineyards and ravage them, but do not finish them off. Strip off her branches, for they do not belong to the LORD.

Zechariah 9:3 · BSB

Tyre has built herself a fortress; she has heaped up silver like dust, and gold like the dirt of the streets.

“I”

Ezekiel 26:12 Leviticus 14:41–45

Ezekiel 26:12 · BSB

They will plunder your wealth and pillage your merchandise. They will demolish your walls, tear down your beautiful homes, and throw your stones and timber and soil into the water.

Leviticus 14:41–45 · BSB

And he shall have the inside of the house scraped completely and the plaster that is scraped off dumped into an unclean place outside the city.

“make”

Ezekiel 24:7 Ezekiel 24:8

Ezekiel 24:7 · BSB

For the blood she shed is still within her; she poured it out on the bare rock; she did not pour it on the ground to cover it with dust.

Ezekiel 24:8 · BSB

In order to stir up wrath and take vengeance, I have placed her blood on the bare rock, so that it would not be covered.’

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

3therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, O Tyre, I am against you, and I will raise up many nations against you, as the sea brings up its waves.

5She will become a place to spread nets in the sea, for I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD. She will become plunder for the nations,

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