Ezekiel 26:3

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For this cause the Lord has said, See, I am against you, O Tyre, and will send up a number of nations against you as the sea sends up its waves.

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  • Isa 5:30 : 30 And his voice will be loud over him in that day like the sounding of the sea: and if a man's eyes are turned to the earth, it is all dark and full of trouble; and the light is made dark by thick clouds.
  • Jer 51:42 : 42 The sea has come up over Babylon; she is covered with the mass of its waves.
  • Mic 4:11 : 11 And now a number of nations have come together against you, and they say, Let her be made unclean and let our eyes see the fate of Zion.
  • Nah 2:12 : 12 Where is the lions' hole, the place where the young lions got their food, where the lion and the she-lion were walking with their young, without cause for fear?
  • Zech 14:2 : 2 For I will get all the nations together to make war against Jerusalem; and the town will be overcome, and the goods taken from the houses, and the women taken by force: and half the town will go away as prisoners, and the rest of the people will not be cut off from the town.
  • Luke 21:25 : 25 And there will be signs in the sun and moon and stars; and on the earth, fear among the nations and doubt because of the loud noise of the sea and the waves;
  • Ps 93:3-4 : 3 The rivers send up, O Lord, the rivers send up their voices; they send them up with a loud cry. 4 The Lord in heaven is stronger than the noise of great waters, yes, he is stronger than the great waves of the sea.
  • Ps 107:25 : 25 For at his word comes up the storm-wind, lifting high the waves.
  • Ezek 5:8 : 8 For this cause the Lord has said: See, I, even I, am against you; and I will be judging among you before the eyes of the nations.
  • Ezek 21:3 : 3 And say to the land of Israel, These are the words of the Lord: See, I am against you, and I will take my sword out of its cover, cutting off from you the upright and the evil.
  • Ezek 27:26 : 26 Your boatmen have taken you into great waters: you have been broken by the east wind in the heart of the seas.
  • Ezek 27:32-34 : 32 And in their weeping they will make a song of grief for you, sorrowing over you and saying, Who is like Tyre, who has come to an end in the deep sea? 33 When your goods went out over the seas, you made numbers of peoples full; the wealth of the kings of the earth was increased with your great wealth and all your goods. 34 Now that you are broken by the seas in the deep waters, your goods and all your people will go down with you.
  • Ezek 28:22 : 22 These are the words of the Lord: See, I am against you, O Zidon; and I will get glory for myself in you: and they will be certain that I am the Lord, when I send my punishments on her, and I will be seen to be holy in her.
  • Ezek 38:3 : 3 And say, This is what the Lord has said: See, I am against you, O Gog, ruler of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal:
  • Jer 6:23 : 23 Bows and spears are in their hands; they are cruel and have no mercy; their voice is like the thunder of the sea, and they go on horses; everyone in his place like men going to the fight, against you, O daughter of Zion.
  • Jer 21:13 : 13 See, I am against you, you who are living on the rock of the valley, says the Lord; you who say, Who will come down against us? or who will get into our houses?
  • Jer 50:31 : 31 See, I am against you, O pride, says the Lord, the Lord of armies, for your day has come, the time when I will send punishment on you.
  • Jer 50:42 : 42 Bows and spears are in their hands; they are cruel and have no mercy; their voice is like the thunder of the sea, and they go on horses; everyone in his place like men going to the fight, against you, O daughter of Babylon.

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  • Ezek 26:1-2
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    85%

    1Now in the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

    2Son of man, because Tyre has said against Jerusalem, Aha, she who was the doorway of the peoples is broken; she is turned over to them; she who was full is made waste;

  • Ezek 26:4-8
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    4And 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

    5She will be a place for the stretching out of nets in the middle of the sea; for I have said it, says the Lord: and her goods will be given over to the nations.

    6And her daughters in the open country will be put to the sword: and they will be certain that I am the Lord.

    7For this is what the Lord has said: See, I will send up from the north Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, king of kings, against Tyre, with horses and war-carriages and with an army and great numbers of people.

    8He will put to the sword your daughters in the open country: he will make strong walls against you and put up an earthwork against you, arming himself for war against you.

  • Ezek 26:12-19
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    12They will take by force all your wealth and go off with the goods with which you do trade: they will have your walls broken down and all the houses of your desire given up to destruction: they will put your stones and your wood and your dust deep in the water.

    13I will put an end to the noise of your songs, and the sound of your instruments of music will be gone for ever.

    14I will make you an uncovered rock: you will be a place for the stretching out of nets; there will be no building you up again: for I the Lord have said it, says the Lord.

    15This is what the Lord has said to Tyre: Will not the sea-lands be shaking at the sound of your fall, when the wounded give cries of pain, when men are put to the sword in you?

    16Then all the rulers of the sea will come down from their high seats, and put away their robes and take off their clothing of needlework: they will put on the clothing of grief, they will take their seats on the earth, shaking with fear every minute and overcome with wonder at you.

    17And they will send up a song of grief for you, and say to you, What destruction has come on you, how are you cut off from the sea, the noted town, which was strong in the sea, she and her people, causing the fear of them to come on all the dry land!

    18Now the sea-lands will be shaking in the day of your fall; and all the ships on the sea will be overcome with fear at your going.

    19For this is what the Lord has said: I will make you a waste town, like the towns which are unpeopled; when I make the deep come upon you, covering you with great waters.

  • Ezek 27:1-4
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    1The word of the Lord came to me again, saying,

    2And you, son of man, make a song of grief for Tyre;

    3And say to Tyre, O you who are seated at the doorway of the sea, trading for the peoples with the great sea-lands, these are the words of the Lord: You, O Tyre, have said, I am a ship completely beautiful.

    4Your builders have made your outlines in the heart of the seas, they have made you completely beautiful.

  • Amos 1:9-10
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    9These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Tyre, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they gave up all the people prisoners to Edom, without giving a thought to the brothers' agreement between them.

    10And I will send a fire on the wall of Tyre, burning up its great houses.

  • Ezek 27:32-34
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    32And in their weeping they will make a song of grief for you, sorrowing over you and saying, Who is like Tyre, who has come to an end in the deep sea?

    33When your goods went out over the seas, you made numbers of peoples full; the wealth of the kings of the earth was increased with your great wealth and all your goods.

    34Now that you are broken by the seas in the deep waters, your goods and all your people will go down with you.

  • Ezek 28:1-2
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    1The word of the Lord came to me again, saying,

    2Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre, This is what the Lord has said: Because your heart has been lifted up, and you have said, I am a god, I am seated on the seat of God in the heart of the seas; but you are man and not God, though you have made your heart as the heart of God:

  • Isa 23:1
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    1The word about Tyre. Let a cry of sorrow go up, O ships of Tarshish, because your strong place is made waste; on the way back from the land of Kittim the news is given to them.

  • Zech 9:3-4
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    3And Tyre made for herself a strong place, and got together silver like dust and the best gold like the earth of the streets.

    4See, the Lord will take away her heritage, overturning her power in the sea; and she will be burned up with fire.

  • Ezek 27:26-27
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    26Your boatmen have taken you into great waters: you have been broken by the east wind in the heart of the seas.

    27Your wealth and your goods, the things in which you do trade, your seamen and those guiding your ships, those who make your boards watertight, and those who do business with your goods, and all your men of war who are in you, with all who have come together in you, will go down into the heart of the seas in the day of your downfall.

  • Ezek 28:7
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    7See, I am sending against you strange men, feared among the nations: they will let loose their swords against your bright wisdom, they will make your glory a common thing.

  • Ezek 5:8
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    8For this cause the Lord has said: See, I, even I, am against you; and I will be judging among you before the eyes of the nations.

  • Ezek 32:3
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    3This is what the Lord has said: My net will be stretched out over you, and I will take you up in my fishing-net.

  • Isa 23:5
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    5When the news comes to Egypt they will be bitterly pained at the fate of Tyre.

  • Ezek 28:20
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    20And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

  • Ezek 28:11-12
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    72%

    11Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

    12Son of man, make a song of grief for the king of Tyre, and say to him, This is what the Lord has said: You are all-wise and completely beautiful;

  • Ezek 32:9
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    9And the hearts of numbers of peoples will be troubled, when I send your prisoners among the nations, into a country which is strange to you.

  • Jer 50:31
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    31See, I am against you, O pride, says the Lord, the Lord of armies, for your day has come, the time when I will send punishment on you.

  • Ezek 32:11
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    11For this is what the Lord has said: The sword of the king of Babylon will come on you.

  • Isa 23:11
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    11His hand is stretched out over the sea, the kingdoms are shaking: the Lord has given orders about Canaan, to make waste its strong places.

  • Amos 3:11
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    11For this reason, says the Lord, an attacker will come, shutting in the land on every side; and your strength will come down and your great houses will be made waste.

  • Isa 23:8
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    8By whom was this purposed against Tyre, the crowning town, whose traders are chiefs, whose business men are honoured in the land?

  • Isa 17:12
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    12Ah! the voice of peoples, like the loud sounding of the seas, and the thundering of great nations rushing on like the bursting out of waters!

  • Jer 51:42
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    42The sea has come up over Babylon; she is covered with the mass of its waves.

  • Jer 25:22
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    22And all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings of the lands across the sea;

  • Isa 23:17
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    17And it will be after the end of seventy years, that the Lord will have mercy on Tyre, and she will go back to her trade, acting as a loose woman with all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth.

  • Isa 23:14
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    14Let a cry of sorrow go up, O ships of Tarshish: because your strong place is made waste.

  • Ezek 25:7
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    7For this cause my hand has been stretched out against you, and I will give up your goods to be taken by the nations; I will have you cut off from the peoples and will put an end to you among the countries: I will give you up to destruction; and you will be certain that I am the Lord.