Ezekiel 27:26-27

27:26 Your rowers have brought you into surging waters.

The east wind has wrecked you in the heart of the seas.

27:27 Your wealth, products, and merchandise, your sailors and captains,

your ship’s carpenters, ¹  your merchants,

and all your fighting men within you,

along with all your crew who are in you,

will fall into the heart of the seas on the day of your downfall.

Ezekiel 26:12-15

26:12 They will steal your wealth and loot your merchandise. They will tear down your walls and destroy your luxurious ²  homes. Your stones, your trees, and your soil he will throw ³  into the water. ⁴  26:13 I will silence ⁵  the noise of your songs; the sound of your harps will be heard no more. 26:14 I will make you a bare rock; you will be a place where fishing nets are spread. You will never be built again, ⁶  for I, the Lord, have spoken, declares the sovereign Lord.

26:15 “This is what the sovereign Lord says to Tyre: Oh, how the coastlands will shake at the sound of your fall, when the wounded groan, at the massive slaughter in your midst!

Ezekiel 26:19-21

26:19 “For this is what the sovereign Lord says: When I make you desolate like the uninhabited cities, when I bring up the deep over you and the surging ⁷  waters overwhelm you, 26:20 then I will bring you down to bygone people, ⁸  to be with those who descend to the pit. I will make you live in the lower parts of the earth, among ⁹  the primeval ruins, with those who descend to the pit, so that you will not be inhabited or stand ¹⁰  in the land of the living. 26:21 I will bring terrors on you, and you will be no more! Though you are sought after, you will never be found again, declares the sovereign Lord.”

Zechariah 9:3-4

9:3 Tyre built herself a fortification and piled up silver like dust and gold like the mud of the streets! 9:4 Nevertheless the Lord will evict her and shove her fortifications ¹¹  into the sea – she will be consumed by fire.

¹ tn Heb “your repairers of damage.” See v. 9.

² tn Heb “desirable.”

³ tn Heb “set.”

⁴ tn Heb “into the midst of the water.”

⁵ tn Heb “cause to end.”

⁶ sn This prophecy was fulfilled by Alexander the Great in 332 b.c.

⁷ tn Heb “many.”

⁸ tn Heb “to the people of antiquity.”

⁹ tn Heb “like.” The translation assumes an emendation of the preposition כְּ (kÿ, “like”), to בְּ (bÿ, “in, among”).

¹⁰ tn Heb “and I will place beauty.” This reading makes little sense; many, following the lead of the LXX, emend the text to read “nor will you stand” with the negative particle before the preceding verb understood by ellipsis; see L. C. Allen, Ezekiel (WBC), 2:73. D. I. Block (Ezekiel [NICOT], 2:47) offers another alternative, taking the apparent first person verb form as an archaic second feminine form and translating “nor radiate splendor.”

¹¹ tn The Hebrew word חַיִל (khayil, “strength, wealth”) can, with certain suffixes, look exactly like חֵל (khel, “fortress, rampart”). The chiastic pattern here suggests that not Tyre’s riches but her defenses will be cast into the sea. Thus the present translation renders the term “fortifications” (so also NLT) rather than “wealth” (NASB, NRSV, TEV) or “power” (NAB, NIV).