1And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
Thou shalt even drink it and suck it out, and thou shalt break the sherds thereof, and pluck off thine own breasts: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD. 23:34
Trivia: In Ezekiel 4, how long did Ezekiel lie on his right side?
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1And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
In the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, [1]
the word of God came to me, saying,
2 Son of man, because that Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken that was the gates of the people: she is turned unto me: I shall be replenished, now she is laid waste:
Son of man, because Tyrus said against Jerusalem,
Aha, Jerusalem has fallen!
3Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Tyrus, and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth his waves to come up.
This is what God says,
I'm against you, Tyrus,
and will cause many nations to be against you too.
4 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.
5 It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD: and it shall become a spoil to the nations.
They'll destroy the walls of Tyrus,
and I'll scrape her like she was a rock.
I've said it.
6And her daughters which are in the field shall be slain by the sword; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
The women will be killed with the sword,
and they'll know that I'm God.
7For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring upon Tyrus Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, a king of kings, from the north, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and companies, and much people.
I'll bring Nebuchadrezzar, the king of kings, [2]
8He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field: and he shall make a fort against thee, and cast a mount against thee, and lift up the buckler against thee.
9 And he shall set engines of war 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 wheels, and of the chariots, when he shall enter into thy gates, as men enter into a city wherein is made a breach.
who will kill the women with a sword,
11 With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all thy streets: he shall slay thy people by the sword, and thy strong garrisons shall go down to the ground.
and all the people in Tyrus.
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 water.
They'll take your riches, break down your walls, and destroy your houses.
13 And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy harps shall be no more heard.
I'll make you stop singing and playing harps.
14 And I will make thee like the top of a rock: thou shalt be a place to spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no more: for I the LORD have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
You'll be like a rock.
You will never be rebuilt. [3]
Because I, God, have said so.
15 Thus saith the Lord GOD to Tyrus; Shall not the isles shake at the sound of thy fall, when the wounded cry, when the slaughter is made in the midst of thee?
The islands will shake at the sound of your fall,
when all the wounded people cry out in pain.
16 Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and lay away their robes, and put off their broidered garments: they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit upon the ground, and shall tremble at every moment, and be astonished at thee.
The sea princes will put on your clothes,
while you sit on the ground trembling and astonished.
17 And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say to thee, How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited of seafaring men, the renowned city, which wast strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, which cause their terror to be on all that haunt it!
People will sing lamentations about you.
18Now shall the isles tremble in the day of thy fall; yea, the isles that are in the sea shall be troubled at thy departure.
The islands will tremble and be troubled when you fall.
19 For thus saith the Lord GOD; 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 great waters shall cover thee;
I'll make the waters cover you.
20 When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, with the people of old time, and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth, in places desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I shall set glory in the land of the living;
I'll bury you in the pit with long-dead people.
21I will make thee a terror, and thou shalt be no more: though thou be sought for, yet shalt thou never be found again, saith the Lord GOD.
I'll make you a terror,
and no one will ever be able to find you again.
I said so.
The eleventh year and the first day of the month? But on which month? And the 11th year of what?
Ezekiel prophesies that Tyrus will be completely destroyed by Nebuchadrezzar and will never be built again.
But it wasn't destroyed, as evidenced by the visits to Tyre by Jesus and Paul
