¹Then the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,

Son of man, set your face against the children of Ammon and prophesy concerning them.

And you shall say to the children of  ¹Ammon, Hear the word of the Lord Jehovah: Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Because you said, Aha! against My sanctuary when it was desecrated, and against the land of Israel when it was desolated, and against the house of Judah when it went off into exile;

Therefore I am about to deliver you up to the children of the east to be dispossessed, and they will set up their encampments among you and put their dwellings among you. It is they who will eat your fruit and drink your milk.

And I will make Rabbah pasture land for camels and the cities of the children of Ammon folds for flocks, and you will know that I am Jehovah.

For thus says the Lord Jehovah, Because you have clapped your hands and stamped your feet and rejoiced with all the malice within you against the land of Israel,

Therefore now I have stretched out My hand against you, and I will deliver you as booty to the nations and cut you off from the peoples and destroy you from the lands; I will destroy you that you may know that I am Jehovah.

Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Because  ¹Moab  ²has said, Look, the house of Judah is just like all the other nations!

Therefore I am about to open up the flank of Moab, taking cities from the cities on its frontier, the pride of the land, Beth-jeshimoth, Baal-meon, even to Kiriathaim.

I will also deliver it along with the children of Ammon to the children of the east to be dispossessed, so that the children of Ammon might not be remembered among the nations.

So I will execute judgments against Moab that they may know that I am Jehovah.

Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Because  ¹Edom has acted full of vengeance against the house of Judah and has incurred serious guilt by taking vengeance on them,

Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah, I will also stretch out My hand against Edom and cut off from them man and beast and make it a desolation. From Teman even to Dedan they will fall by the sword.

And I will inflict My vengeance upon Edom by the hand of My people Israel, and they shall act in Edom according to My anger and My wrath. Then they will know My vengeance, declares the Lord Jehovah.

Thus says the Lord Jehovah, Because the  ¹Philistines have acted in vengeance and have been full of vengeance acting with malice within them to destroy with a perpetual enmity,

Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah, I am about to stretch out My hand against the Philistines and cut off the Cherethites and destroy the remnant of the seashore.

And I will execute a great vengeance upon them with chastisements of wrath that they may know that I am Jehovah, when I have inflicted My vengeance on them.

And in the  ¹eleventh year, on the first of the month, the word of Jehovah came to me, saying,

Son of man, because  ¹Tyre has spoken against Jerusalem, saying, Aha! She is broken, the gateway of the peoples! She has been turned over to me; I will be filled; now she has been desolated.

Therefore thus says the Lord Jehovah, I am now against you, O Tyre, and I will stir up many nations against you, just as the sea stirs up its waves.

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

She will be a place in the midst of the sea where nets are spread, for I have spoken, declares the Lord Jehovah; and she will become spoil to the nations.

And her daughters who are in the field will be slain by the sword that they might know that I am Jehovah.

For thus says the Lord Jehovah, I am about to bring against Tyre from the north  ¹Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, the king of kings, with horses, chariots, horsemen, a company, and many people.

He will slay your daughters in the field by the sword, and he will lay a siege wall against you and cast up a mound against you and raise up a shield against you.

And he will set his battering rams against your walls, and with his axes he will break down your towers.

Because of the abundance of his horses, their dust will cover you; your walls will shake at the noise of the horsemen and wagons and chariots when he enters through your gates like those who enter a breached city.

With the hooves of his horses he will trample down all your streets; he will slay your people by the sword, and the pillars of your strength will topple to the ground.

And they will plunder your wealth and take your merchandise as spoil, and they will break down your walls and tear down your pleasant houses, and they will put your stones and your timber and your dust into the water.

And I will cause the noise of your songs to cease, and the sound of your harps will no longer be heard.

And I will make you bare rock. You will be a place where nets are spread; you shall no longer be built; for I, Jehovah, have spoken, declares the Lord Jehovah.

Thus says the Lord Jehovah to Tyre: How the coastlands will shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, when slaughter occurs in your midst!

Then all the princes of the sea will come down from their thrones and lay aside their robes and strip off their embroidered garments. They will clothe themselves with trembling; they will sit on the ground and tremble every moment and be astonished at you.

And they will take up a lamentation over you and say to you,
How you have perished, O inhabited one,
From the sea, O praised city,
Which was strong by the sea,
She and her inhabitants,
Who imposed their terror on all her inhabitants!

Now the coastlands will tremble
On the day of your fall;
The coastlands which are by the sea
Will indeed be troubled because of your departure.

For thus says the Lord Jehovah, When I make you a desolate city, like cities which are not inhabited, when I bring up the deep over you and the mighty waters cover you,

I will bring you down with those who descend into the pit, to the people of old, and I will make you dwell in the lower parts of the earth, like the ancient waste places, with those who go down to the pit, so you will not be inhabited, nor shine out glory in the land of the living.

I will make you a terror, and you will not exist. Although you will be sought after, you will never again be found, declares the Lord Jehovah.

The word of Jehovah came again to me, saying,

Now you, son of man, take up a lamentation over Tyre;

And say to Tyre, O you who dwell at the entry to the sea, merchant of the peoples to many coastlands, Thus says the Lord Jehovah,
You, O Tyre, have said,
I am perfect in beauty.

Your borders are in the heart of the seas;
Your builders have perfected your beauty.

They have made all your planks of fir trees from Senir;
They have taken a cedar from Lebanon to make a mast for you.

They have made your oars of the oaks of Bashan;
They have made your boards of cypresses inlaid with ivory from the coasts of  ¹Kittim.

Your sail was of fine embroidered linen from Egypt, to be your ensign;
Your awning was of blue and purple material from the coasts of Elishah.

The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your rowers;
Your skilled men, who were in you, O Tyre, were your helmsmen.

The elders of Gebal and her skilled men were in you caulking your seams.
All the ships of the sea and their sailors were within you to barter for your merchandise.

The men of Persia and Lydia and Put were in your army as your men of war.
They hung shields and helmets on you; they endowed you with your splendor.

The men of Arvad  ¹and Helek were on your walls all around, and valiant men were in your towers; they hung their shields on your walls all around; they perfected your beauty.

Tarshish conducted business with you because of the abundance of all your wealth. For your wares they gave silver, iron, tin, and lead.

Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were your traders; for your merchandise they gave human beings and vessels of bronze.

From Beth-togarmah they gave for your wares horses, steeds for riding, and mules.

The people of Dedan were your traders; many coastlands conducted business on your behalf; they brought back as payment to you ivory tusks and ebony.

Syria conducted business with you because of the abundance of your products; they gave for your wares carbuncles, purple and embroidered cloth, fine linen, coral, and rubies.

Judah and the land of Israel were your traders; they gave for your merchandise wheat of Minnith, resin, honey, oil, and balm.

Damascus conducted business with you for the abundance of your products, because of the abundance of all wealth. They gave the wine of Helbon, and white wool.

Vedan and Javan traded for your wares from Uzal. Among your merchandise were wrought iron, cassia, and calamus.

Dedan was your trader in precious clothes for riding.

Arabia and all the princes of Kedar conducted business on your behalf; in lambs, rams, and goats; for these they conducted business with you.

The traders of Sheba and Raamah were your traders; they gave for your wares the best of all spices, all kinds of precious stones, and gold.

Haran and Canneh and Eden, the traders of Sheba, Asshur and Chilmad, were your traders.

These were your traders in the finest fabrics, in rolls of blue and embroidered cloth, and in chests of fine woven articles, tightly bound with cords, among your merchandise.

The ships of Tarshish transported your merchandise for you;
And you were replenished and made very glorious
In the heart of the seas.

Those who rowed you have brought you into great waters,
But the east wind has shipwrecked you in the heart of the seas.

Your wealth, your wares, your merchandise,
Your sailors, your pilots,
Those who caulked your seams,
The dealers in your merchandise,
And all your men of war, who are in you,
With all your company who are in your midst,
Will sink into the heart of the seas
On the day of your fall.

At the sound of the cry of your pilots
The pasture lands will shake.

And all who handle the oar
Will come down out of their ships;
The sailors and all the pilots of the sea
Will stand upon the land,

And they will make their voice heard for you
And cry out bitterly,
And they will throw dust upon their heads;
They will wallow in ashes.

And they will make themselves bald for you
And gird themselves with sackcloth,
And they will weep for you in bitterness of soul
With bitter mourning.

And in their wailing they will take up a lamentation for you
And lament over you, saying,
Who is like Tyre,
Like her silenced in the midst of the sea?

When your wares went out over the seas,
You satisfied many peoples.
With the abundance of your wealth and your merchandise
You enriched the kings of the earth.

Now you are shipwrecked by the sea
In deep water,
Your merchandise and all your company
Go down in your midst.

All the inhabitants of the coasts
Are astonished at you,
And their kings shudder excessively;
Their countenance is troubled.

Those who conducted business with you among the peoples hiss at you;
You have become a source of terror,
And you will no longer exist.