Ezekiel 26:3

World English Bible (2000)

therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, Behold, I am against you, Tyre, and will cause many nations to come up against you, as the sea causes its waves to come up.

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  • Isa 5:30 : 30 They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the land behold, darkness and distress. The light is darkened in its clouds.
  • Jer 51:42 : 42 The sea is come up on Babylon; she is covered with the multitude of its waves.
  • Mic 4:11 : 11 Now many nations have assembled against you, that say, "Let her be defiled, and let our eye gloat over Zion."
  • Nah 2:12 : 12 The lion tore in pieces enough for his cubs, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with the kill, and his dens with prey.
  • Zech 14:2 : 2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city will be taken, the houses rifled, and the women ravished. Half of the city will go out into captivity, and the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city.
  • Luke 21:25 : 25 There will be signs in the sun, moon, and stars; and on the earth anxiety of nations, in perplexity for the roaring of the sea and the waves;
  • Ps 93:3-4 : 3 The floods have lifted up, Yahweh, the floods have lifted up their voice. The floods lift up their waves. 4 Above the voices of many waters, the mighty breakers of the sea, Yahweh on high is mighty.
  • Ps 107:25 : 25 For he commands, and raises the stormy wind, which lifts up its waves.
  • Ezek 5:8 : 8 therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I, even I, am against you; and I will execute judgments in the midst of you in the sight of the nations.
  • Ezek 21:3 : 3 and tell the land of Israel, Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, and will draw forth my sword out of its sheath, and will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked.
  • Ezek 27:26 : 26 Your rowers have brought you into great waters: the east wind has broken you in the heart of the seas.
  • Ezek 27:32-34 : 32 In their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for you, and lament over you, [saying], Who is there like Tyre, like her who is brought to silence in the midst of the sea? 33 When your wares went forth out of the seas, you filled many peoples; you did enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of your riches and of your merchandise. 34 In the time that you were broken by the seas in the depths of the waters, your merchandise and all your company did fall in the midst of you.
  • Ezek 28:22 : 22 and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, Sidon; and I will be glorified in the midst of you; and they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall have executed judgments in her, and shall be sanctified in her.
  • Ezek 38:3 : 3 and say, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I am against you, Gog, prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal:
  • Jer 6:23 : 23 They take hold of bow and spear. They are cruel, and have no mercy. Their voice roars like the sea, and they ride on horses, everyone set in array, as a man to the battle, against you, daughter of Zion."
  • Jer 21:13 : 13 Behold, I am against you, O inhabitant of the valley, [and] of the rock of the plain, says Yahweh; you that say, Who shall come down against us? or who shall enter into our habitations?
  • Jer 50:31 : 31 Behold, I am against you, you proud one, says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies; for your day has come, the time that I will visit you.
  • Jer 50:42 : 42 They lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roars like the sea; and they ride on horses, everyone set in array, as a man to the battle, against you, daughter of Babylon.

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  • Ezek 26:1-2
    2 verses
    85%

    1 It happened in the eleventh year, in the first [day] of the month, that the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

    2 Son of man, because Tyre has said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken: the gate of the peoples; she is turned to me; I shall be replenished, now that she is laid waste:

  • Ezek 26:4-8
    5 verses
    84%

    4 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.

    5 She shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea; for I have spoken it, says the Lord Yahweh; and she shall become a spoil to the nations.

    6 Her daughters who are in the field shall be slain with the sword: and they shall know that I am Yahweh.

    7 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will bring on Tyre Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, from the north, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and a company, and many people.

    8 He shall kill your daughters in the field with the sword; and he shall make forts against you, and cast up a mound against you, and raise up the buckler against you.

  • Ezek 26:12-19
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    83%

    12 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 waters.

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

    14 I will make you a bare rock; you shall be a place for the spreading of nets; you shall be built no more: for I Yahweh have spoken it, says the Lord Yahweh.

    15 Thus says the Lord Yahweh to Tyre: shall not the islands shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, when the slaughter is made in the midst of you?

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

    17 They shall take up a lamentation over you, and tell you, How you are destroyed, who were inhabited by seafaring men, the renowned city, who was strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, who caused their terror to be on all who lived there!

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

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

  • Ezek 27:1-4
    4 verses
    80%

    1 The word of Yahweh came again to me, saying,

    2 You, son of man, take up a lamentation over Tyre;

    3 and tell Tyre, you who dwell at the entry of the sea, who are the merchant of the peoples to many islands, thus says the Lord Yahweh: You, Tyre, have said, I am perfect in beauty.

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

  • Amos 1:9-10
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    77%

    9 Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Tyre, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they delivered up the whole community to Edom, and didn't remember the brotherly covenant;

    10 but I will send a fire on the wall of Tyre, and it will devour its palaces."

  • Ezek 27:32-34
    3 verses
    77%

    32 In their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for you, and lament over you, [saying], Who is there like Tyre, like her who is brought to silence in the midst of the sea?

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

    34 In the time that you were broken by the seas in the depths of the waters, your merchandise and all your company did fall in the midst of you.

  • Ezek 28:1-2
    2 verses
    75%

    1 The word of Yahweh came again to me, saying,

    2 Son of man, tell the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet you are man, and not God, though you did set your heart as the heart of God--

  • Isa 23:1
    75%

    1 The burden of Tyre. Howl, you ships of Tarshish! For it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in. From the land of Kittim it is revealed to them.

  • Zech 9:3-4
    2 verses
    74%

    3 Tyre built herself a stronghold, and heaped up silver like the dust, and fine gold like the mire of the streets.

    4 Behold, the Lord will dispossess her, and he will strike her power in the sea; and she will be devoured with fire.

  • Ezek 27:26-27
    2 verses
    74%

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

    27 Your riches, and your wares, your merchandise, your mariners, and your pilots, your repairers of ship seams, and the dealers in your merchandise, and all your men of war, who are in you, with all your company which is in the midst of you, shall fall into the heart of the seas in the day of your ruin.

  • Ezek 28:7
    74%

    7 therefore, behold, I will bring strangers on you, the terrible of the nations; and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom, and they shall defile your brightness.

  • Ezek 5:8
    73%

    8 therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I, even I, am against you; and I will execute judgments in the midst of you in the sight of the nations.

  • Ezek 32:3
    73%

    3 Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will spread out my net on you with a company of many peoples; and they shall bring you up in my net.

  • Isa 23:5
    73%

    5 When the report comes to Egypt, they will be in anguish at the report of Tyre.

  • Ezek 28:20
    73%

    20 The word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

  • Ezek 28:11-12
    2 verses
    72%

    11 Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,

    12 Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre, and tell him, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: You seal up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.

  • Ezek 32:9
    72%

    9 I will also trouble the hearts of many peoples, when I shall bring your destruction among the nations, into the countries which you have not known.

  • Jer 50:31
    72%

    31 Behold, I am against you, you proud one, says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies; for your day has come, the time that I will visit you.

  • Ezek 32:11
    72%

    11 For thus says the Lord Yahweh: The sword of the king of Babylon shall come on you.

  • Isa 23:11
    72%

    11 He has stretched out his hand over the sea. He has shaken the kingdoms. Yahweh has ordered the destruction of Canaan's strongholds.

  • Amos 3:11
    72%

    11 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: "An adversary will overrun the land; and he will pull down your strongholds, and your fortresses will be plundered."

  • Isa 23:8
    72%

    8 Who has planned this against Tyre, the giver of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honorable of the earth?

  • Isa 17:12
    71%

    12 Ah, the uproar of many peoples, who roar like the roaring of the seas; and the rushing of nations, that rush like the rushing of mighty waters!

  • Jer 51:42
    71%

    42 The sea is come up on Babylon; she is covered with the multitude of its waves.

  • Jer 25:22
    71%

    22 and all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the isle which is beyond the sea;

  • Isa 23:17
    71%

    17 It will happen after the end of seventy years that Yahweh will visit Tyre, and she shall return to her wages, and will play the prostitute with all the kingdoms of the world on the surface of the earth.

  • Isa 23:14
    71%

    14 Howl, you ships of Tarshish, for your stronghold is laid waste!

  • Ezek 25:7
    71%

    7 therefore, behold, I have stretched out my hand on you, and will deliver you for a spoil to the nations; and I will cut you off from the peoples, and I will cause you to perish out of the countries: I will destroy you; and you shall know that I am Yahweh.