Ezekiel 26:4
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And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock.They will destroy the walls of Tyre and demolish her towers. I will scrape the soil from her and make her a bare rock.
In other translations
And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her like the top of a rock.They will destroy the walls of Tyre and demolish her towers. I will scrape the soil from her and make her a bare rock.
Hebrew words
וְשִׁחֲתוּveshichatuand they will destroyH7843חֹמוֹתchomot[the] walls ofH2346צֹרtzorTyreH6865וְהָרְסוּveharesuand they will tear downH2040מִגְדָּלֶיהָmigdaleihatowers itsH4026וְסִחֵיתִיvesicheitiand I will scrape awayH5500עֲפָרָהּ'afarahdust itsH6083מִמֶּנָּהmimenahfrom itH4480וְנָתַתִּיvenatatiand I will makeH5414אוֹתָהּ'otah<obj.> itH853לִצְחִיחַlitzchiachinto bareness ofH6706סָלַע׃sala'rockH5553
Word by word from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew reads right to left.
Related verses
- Isaiah 23:11He stretched out his hand over the sea, he shook the kingdoms: the Lord hath given a commandment against the merchant city, to destroy the strong holds thereof.The LORD has stretched out His hand over the sea; He has made kingdoms tremble. He has given a command that the strongholds of Canaan be destroyed.
- Amos 1:10But I will send a fire on the wall of Tyrus, which shall devour the palaces thereof.So I will send fire upon the walls of Tyre to consume its citadels.”
- Ezekiel 26:9And he shall set engines of war against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers.He will direct the blows of his battering rams against your walls and tear down your towers with his axes.
- Ezekiel 24:7-87 For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the top of a rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with dust; 8 That it might cause fury to come up to take vengeance; I have set her blood upon the top of a rock, that it should not be covered.7 For the blood she shed is still within her; she poured it out on the bare rock; she did not pour it on the ground to cover it with dust. 8 In order to stir up wrath and take vengeance, I have placed her blood on the bare rock, so that it would not be covered.’
- Jeremiah 5:10Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her battlements; for they are not the Lord’s.Go up through her vineyards and ravage them, but do not finish them off. Strip off her branches, for they do not belong to the LORD.
- Zechariah 9:3And Tyrus did build herself a strong hold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets.Tyre has built herself a fortress; she has heaped up silver like dust, and gold like the dirt of the streets.
- Leviticus 14:41-4541 And he shall cause the house to be scraped within round about, and they shall pour out the dust that they scrape off without the city into an unclean place: 42 And they shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other morter, and shall plaister the house. 43 And if the plague come again, and break out in the house, after that he hath taken away the stones, and after he hath scraped the house, and after it is plaistered; 44 Then the priest shall come and look, and, behold, if the plague be spread in the house, it is a fretting leprosy in the house: it is unclean.41 And he shall have the inside of the house scraped completely and the plaster that is scraped off dumped into an unclean place outside the city. 42 So different stones must be obtained to replace the contaminated ones, as well as additional mortar to replaster the house. 43 If the mildew reappears in the house after the stones have been torn out and the house has been scraped and replastered, 44 the priest must come and inspect it. If the mildew has spread in the house, it is a destructive mildew; the house is unclean.
- Ezekiel 26:12And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water.They will plunder your wealth and pillage your merchandise. They will demolish your walls, tear down your beautiful homes, and throw your stones and timber and soil into the water.
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People and places
Places: Tyre