Ezekiel 26:4

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

They will destroy the walls of Tyre and demolish her towers. I will scrape away her soil and leave her as bare rock.

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard 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.

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

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

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    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.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    And they shall destroy{H7843} the walls{H2346} of Tyre,{H6865} and break down{H2040} her towers:{H4026} I will also scrape{H5500} her dust{H6083} from her, and make{H5414} her a bare{H6706} rock.{H5553}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    And they shall destroy{H7843}{(H8765)} the walls{H2346} of Tyrus{H6865}, and break down{H2040}{(H8804)} her towers{H4026}: I will also scrape{H5500}{(H8765)} her dust{H6083} from her, and make{H5414}{(H8804)} her like the top{H6706} of a rock{H5553}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    These shal breake the walles off Tyre, and cast downe hir towres: I wil scrape the grounde from her, and make her a bare stone:

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

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

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    They shal breake the walles of Tyre, & cast downe her towres, I will scrape her dust fro her, & make her a drie rocke.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    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.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    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.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    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.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    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.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    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.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    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

  • World English Bible (2000)

    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.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

Referenced Verses

  • Isa 23:11 : 11 He has stretched out His hand over the sea; He has made kingdoms tremble. The LORD has commanded for Canaan to be destroyed, and her strongholds laid waste.
  • Amos 1:10 : 10 So I will send fire upon the wall of Tyre, and it will consume her palaces.
  • Ezek 26:9 : 9 'He will direct the blows of his battering rams against your walls, and he will demolish your towers with his weapons.'
  • Ezek 26:12 : 12 'They will plunder your wealth and loot your merchandise. They will break down your walls and destroy your luxurious homes. They will throw your stones, timber, and rubble into the sea.'
  • Jer 5:10 : 10 Go up among her rows and destroy them, but do not completely finish them off. Remove her branches, for they do not belong to the Lord.
  • Ezek 24:7-8 : 7 For the blood she has shed is inside her; she placed it on the bare rock. She did not pour it on the ground to cover it with dust. 8 To stir up wrath and bring vengeance, I have placed her blood on the bare rock, so it would not be covered.
  • Zech 9:3 : 3 Tyre has built herself a stronghold and heaped up silver like dust and gold like the dirt in the streets.
  • Lev 14:41-45 : 41 He shall have the house scraped of all its plaster, and the scraped material is to be dumped outside the city in an unclean place. 42 Then they shall take other stones to replace those removed and reapply the plaster over the house. 43 If the mildew reappears in the house after the stones have been removed, and after the house has been scraped and replastered, 44 the priest shall come and inspect it. If the mildew has spread, it is a destructive mildew; the house is unclean. 45 The house must be demolished, with all its stones, timbers, and plaster taken outside the city to an unclean place.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ezek 26:2-3
    2 verses
    84%

    2 Son of man, because Tyre has said concerning Jerusalem, 'Aha! The gateway of the peoples is broken; it has turned to me. I will be filled now that she lies in ruins.'

    3 Therefore, this is what the Lord GOD says: 'Behold, I am against you, Tyre, and I will bring many nations against you, like the sea bringing up its waves.'

  • Ezek 26:5
    83%

    5 She will become a drying place for fishing nets in the midst of the sea, for I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD. She will become plunder for the nations.

  • Ezek 26:11-19
    9 verses
    82%

    11 'With the hooves of his horses, he will trample all your streets. He will kill your people with the sword, and your mighty pillars will collapse to the ground.'

    12 'They will plunder your wealth and loot your merchandise. They will break down your walls and destroy your luxurious homes. They will throw your stones, timber, and rubble into the sea.'

    13 'I will silence the noise of your songs, and the sound of your harps will no longer be heard.'

    14 'I will make you a bare rock, a place for spreading fishing nets. You will never be rebuilt, for I, the LORD, have spoken, declares the Lord GOD.'

    15 This is what the Lord GOD says to Tyre: 'Won't the coastlands tremble at the sound of your downfall, when the wounded groan and slaughter takes place within you?'

    16 Then all the princes of the sea will step down from their thrones. They will remove their robes and strip off their embroidered garments. Clothed in trembling, they will sit on the ground, shuddering continually, appalled at you.

    17 They will take up a lament over you and say to you: 'How you have perished, you who were inhabited by people of the seas, the renowned city, strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, who spread terror among all who lived there.'

    18 Now the coastlands tremble on the day of your fall; the islands in the sea are dismayed by your demise.

    19 For this is what the Lord GOD says: 'When I make you a desolate city, like cities that are no longer inhabited, and when I bring the deep over you and the mighty waters cover you,'

  • Amos 1:9-10
    2 verses
    81%

    9 Thus says the LORD: 'For three transgressions of Tyre, and for four, I will not revoke punishment, because they delivered up an entire population to Edom and did not remember their treaty of brotherhood.'

    10 So I will send fire upon the wall of Tyre, and it will consume her palaces.

  • Zech 9:3-4
    2 verses
    79%

    3 Tyre has built herself a stronghold and heaped up silver like dust and gold like the dirt in the streets.

    4 But the Lord will dispossess her and strike her power in the sea, and she will be consumed by fire.

  • Ezek 27:30-33
    4 verses
    78%

    30 They will mourn over you with loud cries, bitterly wailing, throwing dust on their heads and rolling in ashes.

    31 They will shave their heads for you and wrap themselves in sackcloth. In deep anguish and bitter mourning, they will weep for you.

    32 And they will chant a dirge for you, lamenting, 'Who was ever like Tyre, silenced and destroyed in the midst of the sea?'

    33 When your merchandise went out to the seas, you satisfied many peoples. With your abundant wealth and your goods, you enriched the kings of the earth.

  • Isa 25:12
    78%

    12 He will demolish the high fortress of your walls, bring it down to the ground, to the very dust.

  • Ezek 26:7-9
    3 verses
    77%

    7 For this is what the Lord GOD says: 'Behold, I will bring against Tyre Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, from the north. He is a king of kings, with horses, chariots, horsemen, a great assembly, and a large army.'

    8 'Your villages in the countryside will be killed by the sword, and he will build siege walls against you, raise a siege ramp against you, and set up a shield wall against you.'

    9 'He will direct the blows of his battering rams against your walls, and he will demolish your towers with his weapons.'

  • Isa 23:1
    76%

    1 This is a message concerning Tyre: Wail, you ships of Tarshish, for your harbor has been destroyed. The news has reached them from the land of Cyprus.

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    76%

    25 Behold, I am against you, the destroying mountain, declares the Lord, you who destroy the whole earth. I will stretch out My hand against you, roll you off the cliffs, and make you a burned-out mountain.

    26 No stone will be taken from you for a cornerstone or foundation, for you will be desolate forever, declares the Lord.

  • Ezek 27:2-4
    3 verses
    75%

    2 Now you, son of man, raise a lamentation over Tyre,

    3 and say to Tyre, situated at the gateways of the sea, a merchant of peoples to many coastlands: 'Thus says the Lord God: Tyre, you have declared, "I am perfect in beauty."'

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

  • Isa 23:14-15
    2 verses
    74%

    14 Wail, you ships of Tarshish, for your stronghold is destroyed.

    15 On that day, Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, the span of a king’s lifetime. At the end of seventy years, Tyre will be like the song of a prostitute.

  • Jer 5:10
    74%

    10 Go up among her rows and destroy them, but do not completely finish them off. Remove her branches, for they do not belong to the Lord.

  • Jer 50:26
    74%

    26 Come against her from the farthest borders; open her granaries. Heap her up like piles of grain and destroy her completely. Let nothing be left of her.

  • Ezek 13:14-15
    2 verses
    74%

    14 I will break down the wall that you plastered with whitewash, and bring it down to the ground so that its foundation is exposed. It will collapse, and you will perish within it. Then you will know that I am the LORD.

    15 So I will pour out my wrath on the wall and on those who plaster it with whitewash. I will tell you, ‘The wall is gone, and so are those who plastered it,’

  • Ezek 16:39-40
    2 verses
    74%

    39 I will deliver you into their hands, and they will tear down your mounds and demolish your high places. They will strip you of your clothes, take your fine jewelry, and leave you naked and bare.

    40 They will bring a crowd against you, stone you to death, and cut you to pieces with their swords.

  • Mic 5:11
    73%

    11 I will remove sorceries from your hand, and you will have no more soothsayers.

  • Jer 22:7
    72%

    7 I will send destroyers against you, each with his weapons. They will cut down your choice cedars and throw them into the fire.

  • Isa 23:5
    72%

    5 When the news reaches Egypt, they will writhe in anguish at the report about Tyre.

  • Lam 2:8
    72%

    8 The LORD determined to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion. He stretched out a measuring line and did not turn back his hand from destroying. He caused rampart and wall to lament; they languished together.

  • Mic 1:6
    72%

    6 I will make Samaria a heap of rubble in the open field, a place for planting vineyards. I will pour her stones into the valley and lay bare her foundations.

  • Isa 23:17
    71%

    17 At the end of seventy years, the LORD will attend to Tyre. She will return to her hire and will prostitute herself to all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth.

  • Isa 23:8
    71%

    8 Who has planned this against Tyre, the giver of crowns, whose merchants were princes, whose traders were honored in the earth?

  • Jer 45:4
    71%

    4 The LORD said, 'This is what you are to say to him: Behold, what I have built I am tearing down, and what I have planted I am uprooting—the entire land.'

  • Isa 23:11
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    11 He has stretched out His hand over the sea; He has made kingdoms tremble. The LORD has commanded for Canaan to be destroyed, and her strongholds laid waste.

  • Isa 14:25
    71%

    25 I will break Assyria in My land and trample him on My mountains. Then his yoke will be taken off their shoulders, and his burden removed from their necks.

  • Jer 33:4
    71%

    4 For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says about the houses of this city and the houses of the kings of Judah that have been torn down to defend against the siege ramps and the sword:

  • Ezek 27:26
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    26 Your rowers brought you into deep waters, but the east wind broke you apart in the heart of the seas.