therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, I am against you, O Tyre! I will bring up many nations against you, as the sea brings up its waves.

They will summon a mob who will stone you and hack you in pieces with their swords.

The glory of the Lord rose up from within the city and stopped over the mountain east of it.

You have not gone up in the breaks in the wall, nor repaired a wall for the house of Israel that it would stand strong in the battle on the day of the Lord.

She reared one of her cubs; he became a young lion. He learned to tear prey; he devoured people.

“For this is what the sovereign Lord says: Bring up an army against them and subject them to terror and plunder.

To arouse anger, to take vengeance, I have placed her blood on an exposed rock so that it cannot be covered up.

They will lament loudly over you and cry bitterly. They will throw dust on their heads and roll in the ashes;

Then you will know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves and raise you from your graves, my people.

I will turn you around and drag you along; I will lead you up from the remotest parts of the north and bring you against the mountains of Israel.

You will present them before the Lord, and the priests will scatter salt on them and offer them up as a burnt offering to the Lord.

Then a wind lifted me up and carried me to the exiles in Babylonia, in the vision given to me by the Spirit of God. Then the vision I had seen went up from me.

“Son of man, these men have erected their idols in their hearts and placed the obstacle leading to their iniquity right before their faces. Should I really allow them to seek me?

“‘What you plan will never happen. You say, “We will be like the nations, like the clans of the lands, who serve gods of wood and stone.”

I will put hooks in your jaws and stick the fish of your waterways to your scales. I will haul you up from the midst of your waterways, and all the fish of your waterways will stick to your scales.

“‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: “‘I will throw my net over you in the assembly of many peoples; and they will haul you up in my dragnet.

I will put tendons on you and muscles over you and will cover you with skin; I will put breath in you and you will live. Then you will know that I am the Lord.’”

As I watched, I saw tendons on them, then muscles appeared, and skin covered over them from above, but there was no breath in them.

You will advance; you will come like a storm. You will be like a cloud covering the earth, you, all your troops, and the many other peoples with you.

“‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: On that day thoughts will come into your mind, and you will devise an evil plan.