Ezekiel 26:4

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.

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  • Isa 23:11 : 11 He has stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the LORD has given a commandment against the merchant city, to destroy its strongholds.
  • Amos 1:10 : 10 But I will send a fire on the wall of Tyre, which shall devour its palaces.
  • Ezek 26:9 : 9 And he shall set up engines of war against your walls, and with his axes he shall break down your towers.
  • Ezek 26:12 : 12 And they shall make a spoil of your riches, and make a prey of your merchandise; and they shall break down your walls, and destroy your pleasant houses; and they shall lay your stones and your timber and your dust in the midst of the water.
  • Jer 5:10 : 10 Go up upon her walls, and destroy; but do not make a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the LORD'S.
  • Ezek 24:7-8 : 7 For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it on the top of a rock; she did not pour it on the ground, to cover it with dust; 8 That it might cause fury to come up and take vengeance; I have set her blood upon the top of a rock, that it should not be covered.
  • Zech 9:3 : 3 And Tyre built herself a stronghold, and heaped up silver like dust, and fine gold like the dirt of the streets.
  • Lev 14:41-45 : 41 And he shall cause the house to be scraped all around, and they shall pour out the dust that they scrape off outside the city into an unclean place: 42 And they shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other mortar and plaster the house. 43 And if the plague comes again, and breaks out in the house, after he has taken away the stones, and after he has scraped the house, and after it is plastered; 44 Then the priest shall come and look, and indeed if the plague has spread in the house, it is an invasive leprosy in the house: it is unclean. 45 And he shall break down the house, its stones, and its timber, and all the mortar of the house; and he shall carry them outside the city to an unclean place.

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  • Ezek 26:2-3
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    2Son of man, because Tyre has said against Jerusalem, 'Aha, she is broken, that was the gate of the peoples; she has turned to me; I shall be replenished, now she is laid waste.'

    3Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against you, O Tyre, and will cause many nations to come up against you, as the sea causes its waves to come up.

  • Ezek 26:5
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    5It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea, for I have spoken it, says the Lord GOD; and it shall become a spoil to the nations.

  • Ezek 26:11-19
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    11With the hooves of his horses he shall tread down all your streets; he shall slay your people by the sword, and your strong garrisons shall fall to the ground.

    12And they shall make a spoil of your riches, and make a prey of your merchandise; and they shall break down your walls, and destroy your pleasant houses; and they shall lay your stones and your timber and your dust in the midst of the water.

    13And I will cause the noise of your songs to cease, and the sound of your harps shall be heard no more.

    14And I will make you like the top of a rock; you shall be a place to spread nets upon; you shall be built no more; for I the LORD have spoken it, says the Lord GOD.

    15Thus says the Lord GOD to Tyre: Shall not the isles shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded cry, when the slaughter is made in your midst?

    16Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and lay aside their robes and put off their embroidered garments; they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit upon the ground and tremble every moment, and be astonished at you.

    17And they shall take up a lamentation for you, and say to you: 'How are you destroyed, that were inhabited by seafaring men, the renowned city, which was strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, who caused their terror to be on all that haunt it!'

    18Now shall the isles tremble on the day of your fall; yes, the isles that are in the sea shall be troubled at your departure.

    19For thus says the Lord GOD: When I shall make you a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited, when I shall bring up the deep upon you, and great waters shall cover you,

  • Amos 1:9-10
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    9Thus says the LORD; For three transgressions of Tyre, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they delivered up the whole captivity to Edom, and did not remember the brotherly covenant:

    10But I will send a fire on the wall of Tyre, which shall devour its palaces.

  • Zech 9:3-4
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    3And Tyre built herself a stronghold, and heaped up silver like dust, and fine gold like the dirt of the streets.

    4Behold, the Lord will cast her out, and will strike her power in the sea; and she shall be devoured with fire.

  • Ezek 27:30-33
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    30And shall cause their voice to be heard against you, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:

    31And they shall make themselves utterly bald for you, and gird themselves with sackcloth, and they shall weep for you with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing.

    32And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for you, and lament over you, saying, What city is like Tyre, like the one destroyed in the midst of the sea?

    33When your wares went forth out of the seas, you filled many people; you enriched the kings of the earth with the multitude of your riches and of your merchandise.

  • Isa 25:12
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    12And the fortress of the high fort of your walls will He bring down, lay low, and bring to the ground, even to the dust.

  • Ezek 26:7-9
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    7For thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will bring against Tyre Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, a king of kings, from the north, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and companies, and many people.

    8He shall slay with the sword your daughters in the field; and he shall build a fort against you, and cast a mound against you, and lift up a shield against you.

    9And he shall set up engines of war against your walls, and with his axes he shall break down your towers.

  • Isa 23:1
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    1The burden concerning Tyre. Wail, you ships of Tarshish; for it is destroyed, so there is no house, no entrance: from the land of Chittim it is revealed to them.

  • Jer 51:25-26
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    25Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, says the LORD, which destroys all the earth; and I will stretch out My hand upon you, and roll you down from the rocks, and will make you a burnt mountain.

    26They shall not take from you a stone for a corner, nor a stone for foundations; but you shall be desolate forever, says the LORD.

  • Ezek 27:2-4
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    2Now, you son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyre;

    3And say to Tyre, O you who are situated at the entry of the sea, a merchant of the peoples for many islands, Thus says the Lord GOD; O Tyre, you have said, I am of perfect beauty.

    4Your borders are in the midst of the seas, your builders have perfected your beauty.

  • Isa 23:14-15
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    14Wail, you ships of Tarshish: for your strength is laid waste.

    15And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as a harlot.

  • Jer 5:10
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    10Go up upon her walls, and destroy; but do not make a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the LORD'S.

  • Jer 50:26
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    26Come against her from the furthest border, open her storehouses: pile her up as heaps, and utterly destroy her: let nothing of her be left.

  • Ezek 13:14-15
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    14So will I break down the wall that you have daubed with untempered mortar, and bring it down to the ground, so that its foundation shall be discovered, and it shall fall, and you shall be consumed in its midst; and you shall know that I am the LORD.

    15Thus will I accomplish my wrath upon the wall and upon those who daubed it with untempered mortar, and will say to you, 'The wall is no more, nor are those who daubed it.'

  • Ezek 16:39-40
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    39And I will also give you into their hand, and they shall throw down your eminent place, and shall break down your high places; they shall strip you also of your clothes, and shall take your beautiful jewels, and leave you naked and bare.

    40They shall also bring up an assembly against you, and they shall stone you with stones, and thrust you through with their swords.

  • Mic 5:11
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    11And I will cut off the cities of your land and throw down all your strongholds.

  • Jer 22:7
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    7And I will prepare destroyers against you, everyone with his weapons: and they shall cut down your choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.

  • Isa 23:5
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    5As at the report concerning Egypt, so they shall be greatly pained at the report of Tyre.

  • Lam 2:8
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    8The Lord has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: He has stretched out a line, He has not withdrawn His hand from destroying: therefore He made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.

  • Mic 1:6
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    6Therefore I will make Samaria a heap of the field, and as the plantings of a vineyard: and I will pour down her stones into the valley, and I will uncover her foundations.

  • Isa 23:17
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    17And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall return to her wages, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.

  • Isa 23:8
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    8Who has taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traders are the honorable of the earth?

  • Jer 45:4
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    4Thus you shall say to him, The LORD says this; Behold, that which I have built I will break down, and that which I have planted I will uproot, even this whole land.

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    11He has stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the LORD has given a commandment against the merchant city, to destroy its strongholds.

  • Isa 14:25
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    25That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him underfoot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders.

  • Jer 33:4
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    4For thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, concerning the houses of this city and concerning the houses of the kings of Judah, which are torn down by the battering rams and by the sword:

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    26Your rowers have brought you into great waters: the east wind has broken you in the midst of the seas.