26:1 In the eleventh year, on the first day of the month, 1 the word of the Lord came to me: 26:2 “Son of man, because Tyre 2 has said about Jerusalem, 3 ‘Aha, the gateway of the peoples is broken; it has swung open to me. I will become rich, 4 now that she 5 has been destroyed,’ 26:3 therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, 6 I am against you, 7 O Tyre! I will bring up many nations against you, as the sea brings up its waves. 26:4 They will destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers. I will scrape her soil 8 from her and make her a bare rock.
1 tc Date formulae typically include the month. According to D. I. Block (Ezekiel [NICOT], 2:34, n. 27) some emend to “in the twelfth year in the eleventh month” based partially on the copy of the LXX from Alexandrinus, where Albright suggested that “eleventh month” may have dropped out due to haplography.
2 sn Tyre was located on the Mediterranean coast north of Israel.
3 map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.
4 tn Heb “I will be filled.”
5 sn That is, Jerusalem.
6 tn The word הִנֵּה (hinneh, traditionally “behold”) draws attention to something and has been translated here as a verb.
7 tn Or “I challenge you.” The phrase “I am against you” may be a formula for challenging someone to combat or a duel. See D. I. Block, Ezekiel (NICOT), 1:201-2, and P. Humbert, “Die Herausforderungsformel ‘h!nn#n' ?l?K>,’” ZAW 45 (1933): 101-8. The Hebrew text switches to a second feminine singular form here, indicating that personified Jerusalem is addressed (see vv. 5-6a). The address to Jerusalem continues through v. 15. In vv. 16-17 the second masculine plural is used, as the people are addressed.
8 tn Or “debris.”