Ezekiel 26:4
What does Ezekiel 26:4 mean?
A plain-English look at Ezekiel 26:4 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And they shall destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her a bare rock.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And 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.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And they shall destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down her towers: I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her a bare rock.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949And they will give the walls of Tyre to destruction and have its towers broken: and I will take even her dust away from her, and make her an uncovered rock
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862And they have destroyed the walls of Tyre, And they have broken down her towers, And I have scraped her dust from her, And made her for a clear place of a rock.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752And they shall break down the walls of Tyre, and destroy the towers thereof: and I will scrape her dust from her, and make her like a smooth rock.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890And they shall destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down her towers. And I will scrape her dust from her, and make her a bare rock.
Context
v.3therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I am against thee, O Tyre, and will cause many nations to come up against thee, as the sea causeth its waves to come up.
v.4This passage
v.5She shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea; for I have spoken it, saith the Lord Jehovah; and she shall become a spoil to the nations.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Ezekiel 26:12
And 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 waters.
- Ezekiel 24:7
For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the bare rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with dust.
- Zechariah 9:3
And Tyre did build herself a stronghold, and heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of the streets.
- Jeremiah 5:10
Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her branches; for they are not Jehovah’s.
- Ezekiel 26:9
And he shall set his battering engines against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers.
- Amos 1:10
But I will send a fire on the wall of Tyre, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.
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