therefore this is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: Look,<n id="1" /> I am against you,<n id="2" /> 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 <sc>Lordsc> rose up from within the city and stopped<n id="1" /> 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 <sc>Lordsc>.

<p class="poetry">She reared one of her cubs; he became a young lion.p> <p class="poetry">He learned to tear prey; he devoured people.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;For this is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: Bring up an army<n id="1" /> against them and subject them<n id="2" /> to terror and plunder.

<p class="poetry">To arouse anger, to take vengeance,p> <p class="poetry">I have placed her blood on an exposed rock so that it cannot be covered up.p>

<p class="poetry">They will lament loudly<n id="1" /> over you and cry bitterly.p> <p class="poetry">They will throw dust on their heads and roll in the ashes;<n id="2" />p>

Then you will know that I am the <sc>Lordsc>, when I open your graves and raise you from your graves, my people.

I will turn you around and drag you along;<n id="1" /> 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 <sc>Lordsc>, and the priests will scatter salt on them<n id="1" /> and offer them up as a burnt offering to the <sc>Lordsc>.p>

Then a wind<n id="1" /> lifted me up and carried me to the exiles in Babylonia,<n id="2" /> in the vision given to me by the Spirit of God.p> <p class="bodytext">Then the vision I had seen went up from me.

&#8220;Son of man, these men have erected their idols in their hearts and placed the obstacle leading to their iniquity<n id="1" /> right before their faces. Should I really allow them to seek<n id="2" /> me?

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;What you plan<n id="1" /> will never happen. You say, &#8220;We will be<n id="2" /> like the nations, like the clans of the lands, who serve gods of wood and stone.&#8221;<n id="3" />

<p class="poetry">I will put hooks in your jawsp> <p class="poetry">and stick the fish of your waterways to your scales.p> <p class="poetry">I will haul you up from the midst of your waterways,p> <p class="poetry">and all the fish of your waterways will stick to your scales.p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;This is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says:p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;&#8216;I will throw my net over you<n id="1" /> in the assembly of many peoples;p> <p class="poetry">and they will haul you up in my dragnet.p>

I will put tendons<n id="1" /> on you and muscles over you and will cover you with skin; I will put breath<n id="2" /> in you and you will live. Then you will know that I am the <sc>Lordsc>.&#8217;&#8221;p>

As I watched, I saw<n id="1" /> tendons on them, then muscles appeared,<n id="2" /> and skin covered over them from above, but there was no breath<n id="3" /> in them.p>

You will advance;<n id="1" /> 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.p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;This is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: On that day thoughts will come into your mind,<n id="1" /> and you will devise an evil plan.